Economy in Brief: December 2019

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Price Index edged up 0.2% m/m (5.0% y/y) in October following an upwardly revised 0.7% m/m gain in September (initially 0.6%). The 5.0% y/y increase in October marked a sharp slowdown from the [...]

In the week ended December 23, retail gasoline prices edged down to $2.53 per gallon (+9.1% y/y)... These data are reported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The price data can be found in Haver's WEEKLY and DAILY databases. Greater [...]

All the indicators for China's manufacturing sector remain listless in December. For those of you driven by literalism, China's manufacturing sector has ‘grown' in each of the past two months as its manufacturing PMI stands above 50 [...]

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index for November eased 0.5% (-8.0% y/y)........... The Consumer Confidence data are available in Haver's CBDB database. The total indexes appear in USECON, and the market expectations are [...]

The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index eased slightly in December, by 0.2% to 126.5 (1985=100), but November was revised upward to 126.8 from its originally reported 125.5. A December index level of 128.3 had been expected [...]

The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Price Index edged up 0.2% m/m (5.0% y/y) in October following an upwardly revised 0.7% m/m gain in September (initially 0.6%). The 5.0% y/y increase in October marked a sharp slowdown from the [...]

In the week ended December 30, retail gasoline prices rose to $2.57 per gallon (+13.5% y/y) from $2.53 per gallon the previous week. This was the first weekly increase in seven weeks. Retail gasoline prices usually fall at this time [...]

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reported in its Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey that the General Business Activity Index of -1.3 during November......... Each index is calculated by subtracting the percentage reporting a [...]