ESBR	Employment	Income	International	Money	Output	Prices	Production	Transportation	SSBR

CHART: New housing starts	Housing Starts Privately owned housing starts in April were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,519,000, up 6% from March.	Previous -5.2 Mar. 1996 (% change)	Current +5.9 Apr. 1996 (% change)
	Provided by U.S. Census Bureau as of May 16, 1996.
CHART: Durable Goods	Advance Report on Durable Goods Manufacturers' Shipments and Orders Seasonally adjusted new orders for manufactured durable goods in April decreased $3.3 billion or 1.9 percent to $166.0 billion.	Previous +2.6 March 1996 (% change)	Current -1.9 April 1996 (% change)
	Provided by U.S. Census Bureau as of May 24, 1996.
CHART: Manufacturers' new orders	Manufacturers', Shipments, Inventories, and Orders Seasonally adjusted new orders for manufactured goods in April decreased $0.4 billion or 0.1 percent to $309.1 billion.	Previous +1.7 March 1996 (% change)	Current -0.1 April 1996 (% change)
	Provided by U.S. Census Bureau as of June 4, 1996.
CHART: Monthly retail sales	Advanced Retail Sales U.S. retail sales for May reached $205.5 bil., up 0.8% from last month.	Previous -0.1 April 1996 (% change)	Current +0.8 May 1996 (% change)
	Provided by U.S. Census Bureau as of June 13, 1996.
CHART: Total business sales	Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales U.S. total business sales for March were $703.5 bil, up 0.3% from last month. Month-end inventories were $980.5 bil, down 0.2%.	Previous +1.1 February 1996 (% change in sales)	Current +0.3 March 1996 (% change in sales)
	Provided by U.S. Census Bureau as of May 17, 1996.
SUMMARY: G.17 Release	Industrial Production Industrial production advanced 0.7 percent in May as it had in April. A portion of the increase reflected a spurt in electricity generation related to the unusual weather in May.	Previous +0.7 Apr. 1996 (% change)	Current +0.7 May 1996 (% change)
	Provided by Federal Reserve Board as of June 14, 1996.
SUMMARY: G.17 Release	Capacity Utilization Industrial capacity utilization rose 0.3 percentage points in May, to 83.2 percent.	Previous 82.9 Apr. 1996 (% of capacity)	Current 83.2 May 1996 (% of capacity)
	Provided by Federal Reserve Board as of June 14, 1996.

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