by sslifer | Dec 4, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes, Reference Charts (By Category)
December 4, 2020 Average hourly earnings rose 0.3% in November to $29.58 after rising 0.1% in both September and October, The jump in hourly earnings in April may seem a bit odd, but it came about because many of the jobs lost in that month were low paid workers. ...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2020 | NumberNomics Notes
Here are some photos from this morning’s conference taken by Mary Wessner of Mary Wessner Photography (and also my wife). While not the same as the in-person gatherings at the Daniel Island Club, the Zoom presentation allowed lots of people outside the...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2020 | NumberNomics Notes, Purchasing Managers Index
December 3, 2020 The Institute for Supply Management not only publishes an index of manufacturing activity each month, they publish two days later a survey of service sector firms. The service sector business activity index fell 3.2 points in November to 58.0 after...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
December 3, 2020 Initial unemployment claims for the week of November 28 fell 75 thousand to 712 thousand after having risen 39 thousand in the previous week. After reaching a peak of 6,867 thousand at the end of March, initial claims have been steadily declining. ...
by sslifer | Dec 3, 2020 | Inflation, NumberNomics Notes
December 3, 2020 Gasoline prices at the retail level rose $0.02 in the week ending November 30 to 2.12 per gallon. In South Carolina gasoline prices tend to about $0.25 below the national average or about $1.87. The EIA expect gasoline prices to average $2.15 per...
by sslifer | Dec 2, 2020 | Employment, NumberNomics Notes
December 2, 2020 As shown above the ADP survey shows an impressive 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...
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