• Construction Spending
  January 21, 2026
  Total construction activity for October 2025 ($2,175.2 billion) was 0.5 percent (+/-0.7 percent)* above September 2025 ($2,164.3 billion).October 2025: +0.5* % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): -0.6* % Change
• Business Formation Statistics
  January 14, 2026
  Total U.S. Business Applications were 497,046 in December 2025, down 7.3% from November 2025.December 2025: -7.3° % ChangeNovember 2025 (r): +7.7° % Change
• Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales
  January 14, 2026
  U.S. total business end-of-month inventories for October 2025 were $2,677.8 billion, up 0.3 percent (+/- 0.1 percent) from last month. U.S. total business sales were $1,943.7 billion, down 0.2 percent (+/- 0.2 percent)* from last month.October 2025: +0.3 % Change in InventoriesSeptember 2025 (r): +0.3 % Change in Inventories
• Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services
  January 14, 2026
  U.S. retail and food services sales November 2025 were $735.9 billion, up 0.6 percent (+/-0.4 percent) from the previous month.November 2025: +0.6 % ChangeOctober 2025 (r): -0.1* % Change
• New Home Sales
  January 13, 2026
  Sales of new single-family houses in October 2025 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 737,000. This is 0.1 percent (+/- 14.2%)* below the revised September 2025 estimate of 738,000.October 2025: -0.1* % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): +3.8* % Change
• New Residential Construction
  January 9, 2026
  Privately-owned housing starts in October 2025 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,246,000. This is 4.6 percent (+/- 11.2%)* below the revised September 2025 estimate of 1,306,000.October 2025: -4.6* % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): +1.2* % Change
• Monthly Wholesale Trade: Sales and Inventories
  January 8, 2026
  October 2025 sales of merchant wholesalers were $704.9 billion, down 0.4 percent (+/- 0.5 percent)* from last month. End-of-month inventories were $913.5 billion, up 0.2 percent (+/- 0.4 percent)* from last month.October 2025: +0.2* % Change in InventoriesSeptember 2025 (r): +0.5 % Change in Inventories
• U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services
  January 8, 2026
  The nation's international trade deficit in goods and services decreased to $29.4 billion in October from $48.1 billion in September (revised), as exports increased and imports decreased.October 2025: -39.0° % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): -13.5° % Change
• Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
  January 7, 2026
  New orders for manufactured goods in October, down following two consecutive monthly increases, decreased $8.1 billion or 1.3 percent to $604.8 billion.October 2025: -1.3° % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): +0.2° % Change
• Advance Monthly Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
  December 23, 2025
  New orders for manufactured durable goods in October, down following two consecutive monthly increases, decreased $6.8 billion or 2.2 percent to $307.4 billion.October 2025: -2.2° % ChangeSeptember 2025 (r): +0.7° % Change
• Quarterly Financial Report – Retail
  December 15, 2025
  Not seasonally adjusted after-tax profits for retail corporations with assets of $50 million and over were $53.5 billion for the third quarter 2025 (the 3 months ending October 31, 2025), down $7.1 (+/- 0.5) billion from second quarter 2025 (the 3 months ending July 31, 2025).3rd Qtr 2025: -7.1 Billions of Dollars2nd Qtr 2025 (r): +15.9 Billions of Dollars
• Quarterly Financial Report
  December 15, 2025
  Manufacturing corporations' not seasonally adjusted after-tax profits were $261.1 billion for the third quarter of 2025, up $36.8 (+/- 3.2) billion from second quarter of 2025.3rd Qtr 2025: +36.8 Billions of Dollars2nd Qtr 2025 (r): +12.8 Billions of Dollars

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