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O C T O B E R 4, 1974 BUSINESS STATISTICS A WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE SURVEY OF C U R R E N T B U S I N E S S * U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE/BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS * \ * 1967=100 200 £ I' ' "i"1 1967=100 200 RAW STEEL PRODUCTION (ingots and all other forms):! 150 - O C i 1 * \ 100 50 - 3 _J '• *< - - i i i i I 1\ i i i i 0 Amer. Iron & Steel Inst. i Monthly i i i i i i ( i i i 1i i i i i 1974 1973 1972 1971 Data: i , , i i i i i i i 1i i i i i J F M A M J J A S O N D Thousands 1,400 Thousands 350 MOTOR VEHICLE PRODUCTION (Passenger cars) 300 - _ 1973 250 200 -a/W/Hh 150 r 100 1974 _ 50 Weekly 1971 1972 D a t a ; Motor V e h i c l e M f g r s . A s s n . of t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s , I n c . 1967=100 160 150 140 — ! All — i Services 130 / ' ^ A All 120 110 '' 111II111111 Data: 1971 ! / / •/ / / / / / y 1972 3.0 PRIVATE HOUSING STARTS — — 2.5 _ — \ 2.0 1.5 i i i i i I i i M i ii. l_ li I 1 1 1 1 1973 1974 i ,0 i i i I i 1 i iii F M A M J J A S O N D (seas, adj., at annual rates) 1.0 J — 1 II 1 1 I 1 1 1 M1 1 1 i.l 1 1,1 J-L 1971 Data: U.S. Dept. of C o m m e r c e * A v a i l a b l e only with subscription to the SURVEY O F CURRENT BUSINESS, this S u p p l e m e n t provides selected w e e k l y a n d monthly data subsequent to those published in t h e latest monthly S U R V E Y J Items \ Food I I I I I I U.S. Dept. of Labor Million 3.5 / CONSUMER PRICES 1974 1973 1972 .1<<<111111 1973 1974 2 WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1973 ITEM WHOLESALE PRICES, 22 COMMODITIES 2/ 9 Foodstuffs 13 Raw industrials. Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Sept. 7 Sept. 14 Sept. 21 Sept. 28 ....1967=100. do... ......do... 195.6 209.3 186.5 194.0 209.5 183.8 230.9 253.7 216.2 232.2 254.0 218.1 229.4 252.1 214.7 231. 261. 213 mil. $. ...do... 9,934 6,517 10,172 6,379 10,114 7,176 10,373 7,094 10,196 6,983 188 1,422 1,276 185 200 1,415 1,270 174 254 2,118 1,815 187 271 2,087 1,787 184 286 178 285 68,716 81,541 33,858 149 68,343 82,261 34,143 84 74,969 92,555 37,255 336 75,399 90,540 36,769 137 75,302 90,901 37,119 109 74,890 92,506 36,965 81 96,658 56,220 340,954 22,637 108,298 52,929 96,619 56,049 339,048 22,249 108,286 52,924 99,751 57,062 380,209 21,268 127,387 59,437 101,196 56,960 383,371 21,782 127,897 59,561 100,806 56,871 383,175 21,129 128,555 59,681 8.07 105.88 118.91 8.02 108.83 122.15 9.59 68.69 77.31 9.61 68.55 77.15 9.69 67.72 76.16 11,075 34,837 130,767 8,906 2,673 109.6 14.2 12,555 37,294 168,236 8,812 2,731 111.9 16.4 13,410 36,063 165,746 8,810 2,759 113.1 16.5 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. FINANCE: Currency in circulation 3_f .mil. $. Federal Reserve bank credit outstanding, total 3_/....do... Member bank reserve balances 3/ do... Excess reserves, estimated^/. .....do... Assets and liabilities of large commercial banks: 4/ Demand deposits, adjusted .do... Savings deposits. do... Loans and investments, gross adjusted, total-do ess U. S. Government obligations do eee Commercial and industrial loans (gross)..........do... Real estate loans (gross).. ..do... Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) 3/ percent. Stock prices, 500 stocks (Stand. & Poor's) 4/..1941-43=10. Industrial, 425 stocks ....... .do. . . PRODUCTION: Bituminous coal Electric power, by utilities Motor vehicles (passenger cars).. Petroleum (crude) and condensate 3J Steel, raw Index of production RAIL FREIGHT, REVENUE TON-MILES 12,580 35,044 169,577 9,382 2,848 116.7 17.5 thous. she tons. .....mil. kw.-hr.. .number. ...thous.bbl. thous. sh. tons. 1967=100. *....bil» 1J Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 19 74 _2/ Tuesday price. MONTHLY 12,250 36,239 207,720 9,365 2,888 118.4 17.4 3/ Daily average. 9.75 67.57 75.68 172,539 2*774 113.7 kj Wednesday data. BUSINESS STATISTICS 1974 1973 ITEM June July Apr. 714 89 120 120 316 69 206 ,186 37 ,197 33 ,800 55 ,995 42 ,572 36 ,622 1 35.7 802 97 140 112 386 67 209 ,758 65 ,332 20 ,134 39 ,928 38 ,726 45 ,638 34.1 May June July GENERAL BUSINESS INDICATOR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES (Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.): 840 94 124 Manufacturing and mining 125 Retail trade. 411 86 Liabilities (current), total .thous. $.. 180 ,209 9 ,822 16,,928 Manufacturing and mining 89,,959 Retail trade 36,,923 26.,577 Failures annual rate (seas. adj.)..No. per 10,000 concerns. t 38.2 925 123 169 147 397 89 375 ,693 18 ,349 28 ,437 67 ,789 233,,803 27.,315 39.7 1973 July 789 90 152 112 365 70 215,504 14,169 42,814 45,826 87,269 25,426 37.0 782 103 142 124 328 85 242,066 20,950 30,412 27,312 136,479 26,913 37.7 1974 Aug. May June 203.2 202.6 114.7 199.9 197.2 106.8 149.9 149.0 96.3 rl49.5 rl47.6 r99.3 rl26.6 rl26.0 r89. 7 112.6 109.7 80.8 2,,152 1,232 2,,030 1.,108 1 ,471 931 rl,,596 rl;,014 rl,331 r948 1,126 824 1,814 902 1.,777 828 1 ,120 671 1.,106 674 rl,017 r632 912 634 July Aug. CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE NEW HOUSING UNITS STARTED: Unadjusted: Total (private and public)..... One-family structures Seasonally adjusted at annual rates: NEW PRIVATE HOUSING UNITS AUTHORIZED BY BUILDING PERMITS (14,000 permit-issuing places): Seasonally adjusted at annual rates: Total - . e e do e ess r/ Revised. 18,080 v/ MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS — Continued 1974 1973 ITEM July Aug. May June July Aug. LABOR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT, AND EARNINGS Earnings per production or nonsupervisory worker on payrolls of private nonfarm establishments: Average hourly earnings index, seasonally adjusted: .1967=100.. Current dollars 1967 dollars do.... Gross average weekly earnings: Current dollars, seasonally adjusted 1967 dollars, seasonally adjusted Spendable average weekly earnings (married worker with three dependents): Current dollars, seasonally adjusted 1967 dollars, seasonally adjusted .1967=100.. HELP-WANTED ADVERTISING, SEAS. ADJUSTED INDEX LABOR TURNOVER IN MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS: Unadjusted for seasonal variation: Accession rate, total mo. rate per 100 employees.. New hires do.... Separation rate, total do.... Quit do.... Layoff do.... Seasonally adjusted: do.... Accession rate, total New hires do.... Separation rate, total do.... Quit do.... Layoff do.... WORK STOPPAGES: 1/ Number of stoppages: Beginning in month In effect during month do.... Workers involved in stoppages: Beginning in month ....thous.. In effect during month do.... Man-days idle during month do.... 146.9 110.9 147.6 109.4 156.1 107.3 rl58.5 rl07.9 rl59.3 rl07.6 P160.8 P107.2 145.45 .109.80 145.04 107.48 152.35 104.68 rl54.14 rl04.90 rl55.30 rl04.90 P155.98 pl03.97 127.42 96.19 127.11 94.19 132.75 91.21 rl34.13 r91.28 rl35.02 r91.20 P135.55 p 90.35 131 126 115 116 119 ell4 5.1 4.1 5.1 2.8 1.4 6.2 5.0 6.5 4.5 .8 5.1 3.9 4.4 2.6 .8 5.4 4.3 4.2 2.5 .7 r4.8 r3.7 r4.9 r2.5 1.4 p5.6 p4.3 p6. 3 p4.0 pl.l 4.8 3.9 , 4.5 2.8 1.0 4.7 3.8 5.1 3.0 .9 4.9 3.9 4.8 2.7 1.0 4.1 3.1 4.5 2.5 .9 r4.5 r3.5 r4.4 r2.5 1.0 p4.2 p3.3 p4.9 . p2.7 pi.2 510 860 500 860 , 740 1,060 640 1,050 730 1,130 540 1,070 210 320 2,996 160 310 2,571 391 638 6,267 474 790 7,345 364 769 7,881 225 516 5,926 20,856 10,256 2,811 7,789 21,206 10,441 2,865 .7,899 24,041 12,142 2,694 9,205 24,606 12,400 2,733 9,473 25,364 12,684 3,008 9,672 25,754 12,941 3,026 9,788 7.87 7.84 7.94 8.01 8.74 8.67 r8.85 8.84 r8.96 9.00 p/9.04 9.11 FINANCE AGRICULTURAL LOANS AND DISCOUNTS OUTSTANDING OF AGENCIES SUPERVISED BY THE FARM CREDIT ADM.: Total, end of month ..mil. $.. Farm mortgage loans: Federal land banks...... , , do.... Loans to cooperatives do.... Other loans and discounts ,, . do.... MONEY AND INTEREST RATES: Home mortgage rates (conventional 1st mortgages) : 2/ New home purchase (U.S. average) Existing home purchase (U.S. average) do.... SECURITY MARKETS: BONDS: Sales, excl. U.S. Govt, bonds (SEC): All registered exchanges: mil. $.. Market value Face value do New York Stock Exchange: Market value do Face value. do STOCKS: Sales (Securities and Exchange Commission): Total on all registered exchanges: Market value mil. $.. Shares sold .millions.. On New York Stock Exchange: Market value mil. $.. Shares sold .millions.. 604.89 701.33 766.20 • 852.43 562.00 682.12 501.82 610.61 471.31 632.60 579.43 663.75 744.67 807.02 536.18 645.94 485.02 584.12 450.30 597.55 11,927 399 12,659 424 10,090 392 8,870 336 8,860 366 9,717 306 10,342 330 8,439 311 7,471 264 7,477 291 r5,397.1 r5,331.0 r5,865.3 r5,817.1 r5,785.2 r6,042.0 8,488.1 8,427.0 7,629.7 8,384.4 8,327.5 8,356.7 7,695.7 7,655.9 8,307.2 7,998.9 7,929.7 8,370.0 rl,216.7 77.3 r553.2 rl54.1 r59.6 1,083.4 111.3 1,013.8 281.0 131.7 1,074.6 106.9 912.2 309.3 138.2 1,081.5 90.0 768.4 305.7 164.3 1,020.7 97.6 777.8 338, 7 110.6 r516.3 r607.6 r2,071.0 414.1 r668.9 331.0 126.8 711.9 1,036.3 3,268.6 590.8 1,259.0 500.6 218.5 775.9 983.3 3,267.2 593.1 1,313.3 474.1 226.7 798.5 936.1 2,809.9 569.1 906.2 417.1 222.0 812.0 999.1 3,019.6 625.7 953.1 461.6 233.1 FOREIGN TRADE EXPORTS (MDSE.), INCL. REEXPORTS, TOTAL Excl. Department of Defense Shipments Seasonally adjusted By commodity groups and principal commodities: Food and live animals Beverages and tobacco Crude materials, inedible, exc. fuels Mineral fuels, lubricants, etc Animal and vegetable oils, fats, waxes Chemicals Manufactured goods Machinery and transport equipment, total Transport equipment, total Miscellaneous manufactured articles Commodities not classified do.... ..., do.... do.... do.... do.... do.... do.... ,.do.... do.... .do.... .., do.... do.... r907.4 72.1' r563.6 132.3 r58.9 r467.8 r556.7 r2,054.3 397.8 r671.3 308.9 193.2 r/ Revised. £/ Preliminary, e/ Estimate. V Data for June 1974 omit effects of two energy-related stoppages. "data reflect "changes in sampling and weighting. 18,080 \ 2/ Beginning Jan. 1973, \ - : 4 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued 1973 1974 ITEM FOREIGN TRADE — July Aug® May r5,659.1 r5,828.7 r6,016.5 r6,010.5 8,899.2 8,406.6 8,556.5 8,612.5 9,003.1 9,035.6 9,166.4 9,501.8 r599.3 r94.8 r431.1 r557.4 18.9 r69 7.4 91.2 r409.7 r786.4 23.5 822.6 116.5 556.9 2,285.5 42.2 772.4 127.8 561.6 2,086.3 26.6 774.6 126.5 532.8 2,407.4 70.3 766.4 112.7 536.3 2,498.7 44.3 rl86.4 rl,193.9 rl,701.8 r721.4 rl54.0 r207.0 rl,137.3 rls 686.6 r821®4 rl56.0 333.8 1,494.5 2,303.8 770.2 173.2 330.5 1,514.2 2,153.6 800.4 183.0 350.8 1,529.4 2,131.2 885.5 194.5 380.5 1,711.0 1,993.4 935.5 187.6 131.30 108.20 72.65 63.15 1,115.4 127.35 111.45 76.90 64.85 1,165.9 233.80 205.85 119.90 104.50 1,977.1 198.65 168.60 125.75 111.15 2,050.0 rl90.80 rl63.30 rl05.00 r88.00 r2,135.8 P129.45 52.90 48.40 30.05 2 7.45 517.4 58.30 52.50 33.85 29.35 541.9 June July Aug. Con. GENERAL IMPORTS, TOTAL. do. By commodity groups and principal commodities: METALS AND MANUFACTURES MACHINE TOOLS: Metal cutting type tools: Orders, new (net) , total . ... .do. ... pill.90 p89.25 p75.35 P2,176.0 Metal forming type tools: «... 55.35 45.95 52.70 44. 75 652.5 45.55 37.85 61.45 56.65 636.6 r56.60 r48.90 r47.10 r42 . 40 r646.1 r/ Revised, jg/ Preliminary. USCOMM—DC—18,080 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS W A S H I N G T O N , D.C. POSTAGE AND FEES PAID U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 375 20402 OFFICIAL BUSINESS First-Class Mail f f ^ «-» ° tS «=» S « * « * IA. C O fi^ » a* ! WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS P 32.55 P 25.20 p40.25 p35.10 p638.4
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