US Economic Indicators: Key Sources and Links

US Economic

Statistics, Indicators,

and Data:

Key Sources and Links

Global Finance’s selection of the best links to authoritative sources of data, statistics and indicators about the US economy.

THE US ECONOMY

Most recent GDP report	BEA
Historical data on the GDP and its components	Economic research
Industrial production and capacity utilization	Federal Reserve
Factory orders	Census (formally known as manufacturers’ shipments, inventories and orders)
Business inventories	Census (also known as manufacturing and trade inventories and sales)
US leading economic indicators index: Conference Board	Conference Board
Manufacturing activity from the ISM - Institute for Supply Management	ISM
Non-manufacturing (service) activity from the ISM - Institute for Supply Management	ISM
Dates and lengths of past recessions and expansions	NBER (business cycle data)
Empire State Manufacturing Survey	Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Chicago Purchasing Managers - Chicago Business Barometer	ISM
Weekly petroleum status report - Energy Information Administration	Tonto EIA EIA
API oil industry report	API
NFIB Small Business Economic Trends and Small Business Poll	NFBI (Small Business Economic Trends) NFBI (Small Business Poll)
DJ-BTMU U.S. Business Barometer	Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (Business barometer) Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (Market reports)

CALENDARS OF RELEASES OF US ECONOMIC DATA

Calendar

Daily FX, CNN Money, NBER, Econoday

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR

Personal income and spending	BEA
Real earnings	Bureau of Labor Statistics
ABC News/Washington Post – Consumer Comfort Index	Washington Post ABC News
BD/TIPP poll - Economic Optimism	Tipp online
Consumer sentiment by the University of Michigan	University of Michigan
Consumer confidence by the Conference Board	Conference Board
Consumer debt (formally known as consumer credit outstanding)	Federal Reserve
Retail sales	Census
E-commerce retail sales	Census
ICSC - Goldman Sachs weekly US retail chain store sales snapshot	ICSC
Monthly and weekly chain store sales	Chain Store Age
Johnson Redbook Index	Redbook (trends in retail sales and the consumer economy)
Household debt device	Federal Reserve
Credit card delinquencies	American Bankers Association (Type "credit card delinquencies" in the search box)
Personal and business bankruptcy filings	American Bankruptcy Institute

US EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

Employment Situation Report	Bureau of Labor Statistics
ETI - Employment Trends Index: Conference Board	Conference Board
Mass layoffs	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Weekly claims for unemployment insurance	United States Department of Labor
Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report	United States Department of Labor
The Conference Board Help Wanted Online - monthly measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies)	Conference Board
ADP National Employment Report	ADP

US HOME SALES AND CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY

Housing starts	Census
S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices	S&P/Case-Shiller (Home price indices) Standard & Poors (Real estate)
Federal housing finance agency house prices index	Federal Housing Finance Agency
National Association of Home Builders	NAHB (Housing Market Index – Builders’ perception of the current and future market for new single-family homes - type "HMI" in the search box)
National Association of Realtors	Realtor (Single-family existing home sales)
Pending home sales (for existing homes)	Realtor
New home sales	Census
Construction spending	Census
Mortgage Bankers Association	MBAA (News and media- Weekly mortgage applications)
National Association of Realtors	Realtor (Home affordability index)
Mortgage Bankers Association - Mortgage applications	MBAA (Press center) MBAA (Product and survey)

US INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Internation trade	BEA
Export and import prices	Bureau of Labor and Statistics
Current account balance (International transactions)	BEA
TIC - Treasury International Capital system	US Department of Treasury

US INFLATION PRESSURES

CPI - Consumer price index	Bureau of Labor Statistics
PPI - Producer price index	Bureau of Labot Statistics
Productivity and costs	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employer costs for employee compensation	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment cost index	Bureau of Labor Statistics
Purchasing power of money in the United States from 1774 to 2008	Economic History Measuring worth

FEDERAL RESERVE REPORTS

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City	Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago	Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board’s beige book	Federal Reserve
FOMC - Federal Open Market Committee - statement	Federal Reserve

THE FEDERAL BUDGET

Current projections and historical data on the US federal budget	Congressional Budget Office
Latest proposed US budget	Whitehouse

US INTEREST RATES

Latest interest rates on mortgages, mortgage refinancings, home equity loans, auto loans and credit cards

Bank Rate

Historical interest rates for federal funds and treasury securities

Federal Reserve

Current interest rates for federal funds and treasury securities

Bloomberg

Federal Reserve

MONEY AND CREDIT

US money supply figures	Federal Reserve
Data on US bank reserves	Federal Reserve
Historical figures on consumer loans by all commercial banks	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Current and historical numbers on commercial and industrial loans outstanding by commercial banks	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

US DOLLAR

Dollar’s exchange rate with virtually any currency in the world

OANDA

X-rates.com

Yahoo Finance

Historical foreign exchange rates

Federal Reserve

OANDA

Dollar’s performance versus its major trading partners

Federal Reserve

OTHER USEFUL ECONOMIC SOURCES ON THE WEB

Locate common economic indicators	Economic indicators
Raw data of US economic statistics for graphing purposes	Economagic
Economic report of the President	GPO Access (contains a comprehensive collection of economic indicators going back more than 50 years)
US Congress	GPO Access (economic indicators prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors for the Joint Economic Committee)
Federal Reserve Board’s flow of funds	Federal Reserve
Glossary of economic and financial terms	Economist About.com: Economics Freddie Mac
Association of American railroads	Association of American Railroads (weekly press release on railroad freight traffic volume, an indicator of whether factories and wholesalers are ordering more or fewer supplies)
Exhibitor Relations Co.	ERC Box Office (movie ticket sales, which helps track changes in discretionary spending by consumers)
Travel Industry Association	Travel Industry Association (provides monthly data on air, rail and road travel that can reflect business and consumer spending)
GasBuddy Organization	GasBuddy (chart updates oil and gas prices around the US)
American Staffing Association	American Staffing Association (weekly index that gauges the number of people hired for temporary or contract work)
National Restaurant Association	National Restaurant Association (monthly report on current restaurant activity, as well as the latest outlook; reports are released at the end of each month)
American Hotel & Lodging Association	American Hotel & Lodging Association

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US Economic

Statistics, Indicators,

and Data:

Key Sources and Links