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Economic Indicators

A variety of economic indicators can affect your business, from unemployment rates and number of loans granted to small businesses to current interest rates. These resources cover major economic indicators and other statistical data on the U.S. economy and can be useful to your business research and planning initiatives.

Provides information on current economic conditions in a report published eight times a year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts and other sources.

Gives access to national, international, regional and industy economic accounts data.

Offers data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. Data is produced monthly by The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program.

Profiles American business every five years, from the national to the local level.

Provides links for timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Gives an overview of the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices, written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

Provides an informative database of more than 13,000 U.S. economic time series.

Reports consumer price index, producer price index, real earnings and other economic indicators.

Documents the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output, measured by the Producer Price Index (PPI) program.

Provides broad and targeted economic data, analyses and forecasts for use by Government agencies, businesses and others.

Offers a service from the U.S. Department of Commerce that provides a single point of access to authoritative business, trade and economic information from across the Federal Government.

Gives access to monthly Economic Indicators from January 1998 forward from the browse page. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Provides access to the White House plan for improving our economy.

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