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US and Global Economic Indicators

US Economy

Most recent GDP report
www.bea.doc.gov/bea/rels.htm

Historical data on the GDP and its components:
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories/18

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization:
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/current

Advance reports on Durable Goods Orders:
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3/adv/

Chicago's Purchasing Managers Report (NAPM):
www.napm-chicago.org

U.S Leading Econonic Indicators Index (as well as the Coincident and Lagging Indicators)
www.globalindicators.org/us/latertreleases/

Manufacturing activity from teh Institute of Supply Management (ISM):
www.ism.ws/ISMReport/index.cfm

Non-manufacturing (service) activity from the Institute of Supply Management
www.ism.ws/ISMReport/index.cfm

Dates and lengths of past recessions and expansions (business cycle data):
www.nber.org/cycles.html/

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Personal Income and Spending
www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newsrel/pinewsrelease.htm

Real Earnings
www.bls.gov/new.release/realer.toc.htm

Retail Sales
www.census.gov/svsd/www/advtable.htm

E-Commerce Retail Sales
www.census.gov/mrts/www/current.html

Weekly Chain-Store Sales
www.chainstoreage.com/industry_data

Consumer Debt
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19

How individuals are handling their debt
www.cambridgeconsumeridex.com/index.asp?content=survey

Investor Confidence
www.ubs.com/investoroptimism

ABC News/Money Magazine Consumer Comfort Index
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/PollVault/PollVault.html

Consumer Sentiment by the University of Michigan
www.sca.isr.unmich.edu/main.php

Consumer Confidence by the Consumer Board
www.conference-board.org/economics/consumer-confidence.cfm

Personal and business bankruptcy filings:

www.abiworld.org/template.cfm?section=news_room

EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

Employment Situation Report
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

Mass Layoffs:
www.bls.gov/mls

Weekly-Claims of Unemployment Insurance
www.ows.dowleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch

Help Wanted Adverstising Index
www.conference-board.org/economics/

HOME SALES AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY

Housing Starts
www.census.gov/const/www/newresconstindex.html

Housing Market Index - Builder's perception of the current and future market for new single-family homes (National Association of Home Builders)
www.nahb.org (type HMI in the search index)

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

International Trade
www.bea.doc.gov/bea/newrel/tradnewsrelease.htm

Export and Import Prices:
www.bls.gov/mxp

Current Account Balance (Internation Transactions):
www.bea.doc.gov/bea/rels.htm

INFLATION PRESSURES

Consumer Price Index (CPI:)
www.bls.gov/cpi/

Producer Price Index (PPI):
www.bls.gov/ppi

Productivity and Costs:
www.bls.gov/lpc/

Employer Cost and Employee Compensation:
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.toc.htm

Employment Cost Index:
www.bls.gov/news.release/eci.toc.htm

Historical Rates of U.S Inflation (the CPI) going back to 1913:
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/hist1913.cfm