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The Empire State Manufacturing Survey consists of a series of diffusion indices distilled from a monthly survey of New York regional manufacturing executives and seeks to identify trends across 22 different current and future manufacturing related activities...

Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its latest nominal read of retail sales showing an increase of 0.8% from February and an increase of 6.5% on a year-over-year basis on an aggregate of all items including food, fuel and healthcare services.
Nominal "discretionary" retail sales including home furnishings, home garden and building materials, consumer electronics and department store sales increased 1.61% from February and increased 5.91% above the level seen in March 2011 while, adjusting...

Today's early release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers for April indicated a decline in consumer sentiment from the prior month with a reading of 75.7 but improvement on an annual basis with the level increasing 8.45% above a...

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) publishes the results of a weekly applications survey that covers roughly 50 percent of all residential mortgage originations and tracks the average interest rate for 30 year and 15 year fixed rate mortgages as...