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U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes News Release
Published on 2011-11-10 08:02:00
Bureau of Labor Statistics The latest U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes news release has been posted on the BLS website at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ximpim.pdf and also archived at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ximpim_11102011.pdf. Highlights are below.
International Trade
Published on 2011-11-10 08:01:00
International Trade is one of those justifiably influential reports. Even if you've never paid attention to it before, you've heard of it. Of course, if you don't follow the economic indicators, you've probably heard of it under a different name: the US trade deficit. And that's exactly what International Trade is: the difference in total dollars between what we import and what we
First Time Jobless Claims
Published on 2011-11-10 08:01:00
Well, it's Thursday. And if it's Thursday, that means it's time for the First Time Jobless Claims report! To start with, let's recap last week. The advance figure for initial claims for the week ending 10/29 came in at 397,000 (which beat the expected 400,000 new claims), and the advance figure for actual initial claims came in at 366,923. Meanwhile, the total number of people claiming
