These statistics cover how much businesses are producing and the level of new co

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These statistics cover how much businesses are producing and the level of new construction in the economy:

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization [monthly]

New Construction [monthly]

New Private Housing and Vacancy Rates [monthly]

Business Sales and Inventories [monthly]

Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders [monthly]

In one Word document, for each indicator above briefly provide:

Name of the economic indicator

What the statistic means in general terms

Type of indictor (leading, lagging or coincidental) if known

Current value and recent trends

Source of the statistic including website address

Explanation / Answer

Leading : inductors which change before the economy changes stock market returns are a leading indictor as the stock market usually begins to decline before the economic declines.

All these Industrial production and capacity utilization , new construction , new private housing and vacancy rate, business sales and inventory , manufacturing shipment , inventory and orders. Are comes under leading indicator.

Change in business inventories is an important leading economic indicator as they indicated change in consumer demand new construction including new house construction is another procyclical leading indicator which is watches closely by investors a slowdown in the housing market during a boom often indicate that a recession is coming where as a rise in the new housing market during a recession usually means that there are better times a head

These categories include both the price consumers pay as well as the price business pay for raw material and include

Producer price , consumer price , price received and paid by forms .

Current value : industrial production and capacity utilization , capacity utilization for the insusind sector moved up in agust to 78.1 petcper a rate that is 1.7 percentage point below it's long run (1972-2017) average

https://www.federalreserve.gov>current release.

https://fred.stlousfed.org>

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