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BUSINESS STATISTICS A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS* 1941-43 = 10 120 1941-43 = 10 130 PRICES OF 425 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS 120 (a^.Tdlfy close) — — 110 ^N/^ \ / ' vV 100 T X ^ A - 90 , 80 —i 1968 i i I...J 1969 1 i i i i i i i i i i 1970 1 i i i i i 1971 J F M A M J J A S O N D Standard & Poor's Group 1967 = 100 250 RAW STEEL PRODUCTION Monthly 1967=100 250 Weekly (ingots a n d a l l other forms) 200 - 200 150 - 150 ~ 100 100 \ 50 I 1 J L 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1968 1 i i i i i 1 i I 1969 i i i 1 i | | i \ i I i i 1970 i 1 m i i 1971 50 i J F M A M J J A S O N D Data: Amer. Iron & Steel Inst. Dolia 3.80 Hours 48 MANUFACTURING HOURS & EARNINGS Billion $ 11.0 CONSUMER INSTALLMENT CREDIT EXTENDED AND REPAID 10.0 — (seasonally adjusted) 3.60 f - (Hours seasonally adjusted) 46 3.40 Average Hourly Gross Earnings (left scale) \ 44 9.0 42 8.0 40 7.0 38 6.0 Extended 3.20 3.00 /\ r I I 1968 Per (right scale) 1 ~ s 1969 Week . ' I I I I I I I I I i i i i i i 1970 1971 Data: U.S. Dept. of Labor 1 i i i i i -J-. L 1 f 1 I 1 1 .1 .JLJ- l . i 1 1 1 1 1 I I 11 1I I 1 1 1 1 1 I I l,„ 1968 Data: Federal Reserve Board * A v a i l a b l e o n l y w i t h subscription t o t h e SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, this Supplement provides selected w e e k l y a n d monthly d a t a subsequent t o those published in the latest monthly SURVEY f Repaid .-->*-- v y si A v e r a g e Hours 2.80 . / 1969 1970 1971 WEEKLY 2 BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1971 Jan. 2 Jan. 9 1967=100. 106.2 106.7 mil. $. do... 6 ,695 4 ,888 6,834 4,962 444 3 ,097 2 ,754 178 FINANCE: Currency in circulation^/ mil. $. Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total 3/---do... Member bank reserve balances 3/ ...do... Excess reserves, estimated _3_/... „ do... 1972 Dec. 18 Dec. 25 Jan. 1 Jan. 8 107.1 107.3 108.2 9,877 7,111 9,965 7,301 7,281 5,065 500 3,154 2,820 214 330 2,578 2,148 169 341 2,681 2,242 152 406 119 162 57 424 67 695 29 740 338 57,021 68,438 30,611 576 61,040 73,239 31,136 190 61,242 74,651 31,192 12 61,448 75,667 31,951 358 61 026 76 318 32 872 409 Assets and liabilities of large commercial banks: 4/ Demand deposits, adjusted mil. $. Savings deposits do... Loans and investments, gross adjusted, total do... U.S. Government obligations do... Commercial and industrial loans (gross) do... Real estate loans (gross)..... do... 48,483 253,891 28,267 81,894 34,313 87,110 48,800 252,707 28,637 81,455 34,308 89,336 54,167 272,781 28,280 83,922 38,221 89,183 54,214 272,122 28,018 83,802 38,366 91,639 54,538 273,228 28,929 83,782 38,378 Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3_/ percent. .Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's) 4/.1941-43=10. Industrial, 425 stocks do... 8.19 92.27 101.09 8.16 92.35 101.07 7.76 98.54 108.99 7.73 101.18 112.06 7.70 102.21 113.00 WHOLESALE PRICES, 22 COMMODITIES 2/ ALL RETAIL STORES, SALES Nondurable goods stores.... .. INITIAL UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS, State programs thous. INSURED UNEMPLOYMENT , all programs. . .do. . . State programs (50 States, D.C., and Puerto Rico)...do... FAILURES, INDUST. AND COMMERCIAL (Dun & Bradstreet).number. 7 = 67 103 .07 113 .86 PRODUCTION: Bituminous coal 3/ Electric power, by utilities Motor vehicles (passenger cars). c Petroleum (crude) and condensate _3/ thous. sh. tons. mil. kw.-hr. number. thous. bbl. 2,056 29,073 55,242 9,965 1,893 31,129 169,705 10,040 2,080 32,047 179,123 9,250 2,135 31,063 140,690 9,258 2,222 29,533 96 9,256 Steel, raw Index of production thous. sh. tons. 1967=100. 2,366 97.0 11.2 2,028 83.1 14.0 1,948 79.8 12.3 2,004 82.1 bit. 2,413 98.9 12.8 RAIL FREIGHT, REVENUE TON-MILES 1/ Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday price. MONTHLY 3/ Daily average. 179,880 2,152 38o2 U,4 4/ Wednesday data. BUSINESS STATISTICS 1970 ITEM Oct. 1971 Nov. Aug. Sept. Oct. 941 114 149 939 126 133 848 108 131 741 117 114 759 110 119 819 131 125 do.... do.... do. 185 419 74 174 414 92 169 345 95 140 304 66 142 313 75 129 353 81 thous. $.. do. ... do.. |144,773 19,950 14,109 119,836 9,896 15,390 155,555 27,515 13,205 115,847 24,983 20,267 144,702 15,912 13,288 128,998 16,533 11,601 do.... do. do.... 67,607 29,410 13,697 52,624 29,809 12,117 65,460 34,071 15,304 38,580 20,178 11,839 54,706 40,771 20,025 63,619 23,026 14,219 Failure annual rate (seas. adj.)..No. per 10,000 ,.concerns.. 45.9 50.8 43.6 40.1 38.1 41.6 Nov. GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATORS INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.): Failures, total number. . Commercial service. do. ... Construction ....do.... Manufacturing and mining Retail trade Wholesale trade Liabilities (current), total Commercial service Construction Manufacturing and mining Retail trade Wholesale trade CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE CONSTRUCTION COST INDEXES: American Appraisal Co., The: Average, 30 cities Atlanta. New York San Francisco St. Louis 1913=100.. do.... do do.... do. ! .! New mortgage loans of all savings and loan associations, estimated total mil. $.. By purpose of loan: Home construction. do.. .. Home purchase do.. All other purposes do.... rj Revised. 8050 1,167 1,268 1,229 1,111 1,140 1,177 1,323 1,233 1,126 1,147 1,298 1,441 1,416 1,195 1,253 1,297 1,440 1,415 1,193 1,252 1,296 1,439 1,415 1,189 1,252 2,127 1,972 4,111 3,672 r3,405 3,265 406 1,032 689 355 919 698 641 2,225 1,245 628 1,951 1,093 r609 rl,717 r1,079 583 1,643 1,039 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued 3 1971 1970 Nov. Sept. Nov. LABOR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT, AND EARNINGS LABOR FORCE, total,persons 16 years of age and over, not seasonally adjusted thous, Civilian labor force . ... ..do.., Employed, total. ° do. . , Nonagricultural employment . do. ., Agricultural employment do. ., Unemployed (all civilian workers) do.., Civilian labor force, seasonally adjusted do.., Employed, total. do.. Nonagri cultural employment do.., Agricultural employment do. . Unemployed (all civilian w o r k e r s ) . . do.. Long-term, 15 weeks and over do.. Rates (unemployed in each group as percent of total in the group): All civilian workers Men, 20 years and over Women, 20 years and over Both sexes, 16-19 years .. Married m e n Negro and other races White workers Occupation: White-collar workers Blue-collar workers Industry: Private nonfarm wage and salary workers. Construction • Manufacturing Durabl e goods . EMPLOYEES ON PAYROLLS (NONAGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS): Total, seasonally adjusted thous Mining do.. Contract construction • .do.. Manufacturing do.. Durable goods do. . Nondurable goods do.. Transportation, communication, electric, gas, etc..do.. Wholesale and retail trade..... + do.. Wholesale trade • do. . Retail trade do. . Finance, insurance, and real estate do.. Services ..do.. Government do.. Federal do.. State and local do.. PRODUCTION WORKERS (MFG. PAYROLLS), TOTAL, seas. adj...do.. Durable goods. do. . Nondurable goods do.. HOURS (GROSS), A V G . WEEKLY PER PROD. WORKER (MFG. PAYROLLS) Manufacturing, seasonally adjusted hours Overtime hours do.. Durable goods do..,. Overtime hours. .do.. Nondurable goods do.. Overtime hours - .do. . Man-hours in nonfarm establishments, all employees, seasonally adjusted, annual rate bil. man-hours MAN-HOUR INDEXES, AGGREGATE WEEKLY, seas, adjusted: Manufacturing 1967=100 Durable goods • • «do. . Nondur abl e goods • do.. HOURLY EARNINGS (GROSS), AVG. PER PROD. WORKER O N PAYROLLS: Manufacturing, not seasonally adjusted dollars Excluding overtime. .do. . Durable goods .do. • Excluding overtime • do.. Nondurable goods. do. . Excluding overtime do. . 87,352 84,635 80,065 76,595 3,470 4,570 84,783 79,845 76,476 3,369 4,938 1,231 87,715 85,019 80,204 76,942 3,262 4,815 85,172 80,022 76,629 3,393 5,150 1,293 5.8 4.3 5.5 17.0 3.0 10.7 5.3 3.4 7o2 6.0 10.3 6.3 6.7 6.0 4.4 5.8 17.0 3.4 9.3 5.7 3.6 7.5 6.2 8.9 6.8 7.1 70,853 616 3,250 18,616 10,597 8,019 4,460 r70,848 r521 r3,290 rl8,560 rl0,561 r7,999 4,442 r70,981 r521 r3,318 rl8,603 rl0,571 r8,032 r4,435 15,273 3,865 11,408 3,821 11,962 12,855 2,674 10,181 13,515 7,630 5,885 rl5,270 r3,873 rll,397 r3,834 rll,996 rl2,935 2,675 rl0,260 rl3,462 7,600 r5,862 rl5,276 r3,873 rll,403 r3,852 rl2,020 rl2,956 r2,669 rl0,287 13,506 r7,614 r5,892 39.5 2.8 39.7 2.7 39.1 3.1 39.8 3.0 40.3 2.8 r39.3 3.0 40.1 r3.0 r40.6 2.9 r39.5 r3.0 137.04 137.64 rl38.07 rl38.91 92.6 89.3 97.3 91.9 87.8 97.7 r92.5 r89.0 r97.5 r93.3 r89.6 r98.5 86,386 83,347 78,741 75,515 3,226 4,607 83,473 78,550 75,197 3,353 4,923 86,165 83,152 78,516 75,564 2,952 4,636 83,609 78,463 75,055 3,408 5,146 1,084 5.9 4.2 5.6 17.6 3.2 9.0 5. 3. 7. 6. 9. 7. 6.2 4.6 5.8 17.8 3.4 9.5 5.6 3.8 7.8 6.6 11.8 7.6 8.0 69,985 624 3,294 18,517 10,449 8,068 4,506 70,313 623 3,302 18,796 10,738 8,058 4,450 14,902 3,827 11,075 3,721 11,750 12,671 2,664 10,007 13,279 7,384 5,895 14,952 3,832 11,120 3,731 11,776 12,683 2,661 10,022 13,577 7,686 5,891 39. 2. 40, 2. 39. 2. 39. 2. 40. 2. 39. 2. 136.45 9C . 4 85 .7 97 . 3 3. 39 3. 27 3. 57 3. 46 3. 15 3.04 86,884 84,135 79,295 75,851 3,444 4,840 84,598 79,525 76,169 3,356 5,073 1,239 6.0 4.5 5.6 17.1 3.3 10.5 5.4 3.3 8=0 6.2 10.0 7.0 7.1 3.60 3.46 3.83 3.69 3.31 3.18 FINANCE CONSUMER CREDIT (SHORT- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM): Total outstanding, end of month • Installment credit, total • Automobile paper Other consumer goods paper..... Repair and modernization loans Personal loans * By type of holder: Financial institutions, total Commercial banks Finance companies Credit unions Miscellaneous lenders Retail outlets, total.. *••. Automobile dealers r_/ Revised. 8050 p_/ Pr el iminar y. mil. $ do.. do. . do.. do.. do.. 123,915 99,790 36,011 28,378 4,133 31,268 125,802 101,161 35,490 29,949 4,110 31,612 130,644 104,973 37,383 29,840 4,330 33,420 131,606 105,763 37,759 30,072 4,357 33,575 133,263 107,097 38,164 30,586 4,370 33,977 do.. do.. do. . do. . do.. 86,820 41,740 31,081 12,438 1,561 87,064 41,895 31,123 12,500 1,546 91,279 44,603 31,133 13,780 1,763 91,943 44,947 31,331 13,875 1,790 92,901 45,396 31,643 14,052 1,810 do.. do. . 12,970 332 14,097 327 13,694 349 13,820 354 14,196 359 4 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued 1970 1971 Aug. Sept. Nov. FINANCE—Con. CONSUMER CREDIT (SHORT- AND INTERMEDIATE-TERM): —Con. Total outstanding, end of month -- Con. Noninstallment credit, total.............•...........mil. $ Single-payment loans, total..........................do.. Commercial banks. ................................ ..do. . Other financial institutions.......................do.. Charge accounts, total......... do.. Retail outlets........o............................do.. Credit cards.......................................do.. Service credit do.. Installment credit extended and repaid: Unadjusted: Extended, total do.. Automobile paper.. ................................... do.. Other consumer goods paper e ....... ................ .. .do.. Al 1 other .....................o......................do.. Repaid, total..........................................do.. Automobile paper......................„....„......... do.. Other consumer goods paper............................do.. All other............................................do.. Seasonally adjusted: Extended, total........................................do.. Automobile paper.....................................do.. Other consumer goods paper...........................do.. All other.................00.........................do.. Repaid, total. o....................do.. Automobile paper.....................................do.. Other consumer goods paper...........................do.. Al1 other............................................do.. Life Insurance Agency Management Association: Insurance written (new paid-for insurance): Value, estimated total...............................mil. $ Ordinary (incl. mass-marketed ord.)..................do. . Group................................................do.. Industrial ...........do.. 23,907 9,313 8,059 1,254 24,125 9,345 8,071 1,274 25,644 9,997 8,633 1,364 25,671 10,061 8,694 1,367 25,843 10,097 8,722 1,375 26,166 10,182 8,795 1,387 7,656 5,797 1,859 6,938 7,757 5,884 1,873 7,023 8,305 6,120 2,185 7,342 8,305 6,101 2,204 7,305 8,435 6,269 2,166 7,311 8,634 6,482 2,152 7,350 8,670 2,463 3,200 3,007 8,853 2,683 3,103 3,067 8,271 2,006 3,147 3,118 8,440 2,513 2,921 3,006 10,300 3,066 3,465 3,769 9,088 2,675 3,153 3,260 9,849 2,927 3,454 3,468 8,936 2,698 3,091 3,147 9,797 3,037 3,423 3,337 9,007 2,661 3,191 3,155 10,711 3,105 3,737 3,869 9,377 2,700 3,223 3,454 8,580 2,349 3,113 3,118 8,662 2,550 3,036 3,076 8,414 2,127 3,113 3,174 8,716 2,577 3,082 3,057 10,049 3,004 3,465 3,580 9,222 2,697 3,262 3,263 10,156 3,147 3,462 3,547 9,157 2,732 3,172 3,253 10,031 2,992 3,467 3,572 9,107 2,634 3,219 3,254 10,572 3,162 3,595 3,815 9,306 2,662 3,254 3,390 14,065 10,620 2,864 581 14,758 10,506 3,729 523 17,299 10,767 5,970 562 15,580 10,499 4,490 591 14,742 10,875 3,244 623 14,817 11,646 2,642 529 USCOMM—DC— 8 0 5 0 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON, D.C. 20402 OFFICIAL BUSINESS First-Class Mai! 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