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Housing starts jumped 8.3% to a 1.78-million annual rate from February's weather-reduced total.
Read More →The March Producer Price index from the Department of Commerce soared 1.6% from February on top of a 2.5% rise over the prior two months.
Read More →The Equipment Leasing Association's (ELA) president, Michael Fleming, told industry leaders in Chicago last week that there is pent-up demand for new equipment that will require companies to seek out more flexible financing to meet the demand
Read More →The U.S. trade deficit improved 3.2% in February as the balance of services improved, goods exports rose 1.1% and goods imports fell 0.2%, according to the Department of Commerce.
Read More →Even with 108,000 fewer jobs, the labor market report for March was still better than the report for February, says Jim Haughey, Newport Communication's senior economist
Read More →The SARS virus has begun to slow economic activity in Asian economies, says Newport Communications' senior economist Jim Haughey.
Read More →Nondurable goods orders and shipments dropped 1.4% in February from January according to a new report from the Department of Commerce.
Read More →The March manufacturing index from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) dropped to 46.2 in March from 50.5 in February over concerns about the impact of the war in Iraq.
Read More →Personal income rose 0.3% in February, on track with the trend over the past year, but nervous consumers kept consumption spending unchanged while the volume of consumer purchases, after inflation, fell 0.4% due to soaring energy prices.
Read More →February manufacturing shipments fell 1.6% and orders dropped 1.2% in a new Commerce Department report released Thursday
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