Day: June 6, 2022

The Producer Price Index for final demand increased 11.0% from April 2021 to April 2022. Producer prices for goods rose 16.3%, while prices for services rose 8.1%. Producer prices...

Prices for U.S. exports rose 18.0% from April 2021 to April 2022, following an increase of 18.6% in March 2022. Agricultural export prices increased 20.9% for the year ended April ...

Key Highlights Pending sales slid for the sixth consecutive month, down 3.9% in April from March. Pending sales rose in the Midwest and fell in the other three regions. Compared to...

Forecasters Predict Slower Growth The outlook for the U.S. economy looks weaker now than it did three months ago, according to 34 forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank o...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City released the May Services Survey. According to Chad Wilkerson, vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, the...

Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 1.5% in the first quarter of 2022, following an increase of 6.9% in the fourth quarter of 2021. The decrease was re...

Key Highlights Existing-home sales fell for the third straight month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.61 million. Sales were down 2.4% from the prior month and 5.9% from o...

Personal income increased $89.3 billion, or 0.4% at a monthly rate, while consumer spending increased $152.3 billion, or 0.9%, in April. The increase in personal income primarily r...