While in contraction territory for a 10th straight month, a handful of key subindexes trended positive vs. July.
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The increase in real GDP reflected increases in consumer spending, nonresidential fixed investment, and state and local government spending.
New orders for manufactured durable goods in July were down following four consecutive monthly increases, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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We examine the latest economic trending data as it pertains to wholesale distributors, including their revenue expectations through next year.
July's PPI increased at a faster pace in July vs. June, with core CPI posting its biggest one-month increase since February.
Total inventories of merchant wholesalers, except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, also declined during the month.
Consumer prices increased at a slightly higher pace than in June, while core inflation ticked downward.
The annual sales growth for the 12 months through June 2023 is 6.3% percent, according to HARDI's monthly report.
New orders for manufactured goods in June — up 6 of the past 7 months — increased $13.4 billion or 2.3%.
Year-to-date construction spending through the first half of the year was up 3.0% vs. 2022.
For a second straight month, none of the PMI's 10 subindexes registered monthly expansion.
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) was 49.3 in July, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
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The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index rose again in July to 117.0, up from 110.1 in June and to the highest level since July 2021.Â
It was the fourth consecutive monthly increase, and more than twice the increase of May.
Amid cooling inflation, that figure is an acceleration from 1Q's 2.0% growth.