Initial Unemployment Claims

December 4, 2025 Initial unemployment claims declined 27 thousand in the week ending November 29 to 191 thousand after falling 4 thousand in the previous week.   While claims fell sharply in the most recent week that was the week with the Thanksgiving Day holiday...

Industrial Production

December 3, 2025 Industrial production rose 0.1% in September after declining 0.3% in August.  In the past year industrial production has risen 1.6%. Breaking industrial production down into its three basic categories — manufacturing, mining, and utilities ...

ADP Employment

December 3, 2025 As shown above the ADP survey shows a respectable correlation with the private sector portion of the payroll employment data to be released a couple of days later.  And well it should.  ADP, or Automatic Data Processing, Inc. is a provider of...

Car and Truck Sales

December 42 2025 Unit car and truck sales rose 2.0% in November to 15.6 million after having falleln 6.1% in October.  Car sales bounced around earlier in the year as consumers bought cars prior to the imposition of imports in early April.  As a result, sales jumped...