Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Aluminum Ingot and Other Notable Facts

Midwest Aluminum ingot at $1.1289/lb. Building permits in September 2010 were 539,000, down 5.6% from August and down 10.9% from September 2009. Housing starts were 610,000, up 0.3% from last month and up 4.1% from one year ago.

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Interesting Numbers

New orders for manufactured goods in August 2010 decreased 0.5% from July, to $408.9 billion. Shipments declined 0.6%, to $415.1 billion; unfilled orders were virtually unchanged at $804.0 billion; and inventories increased 0.1%, to $526.4 billion in August.

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