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Total construction starts (dollars) declined 5% from November to December at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, Dodge Data & Analytics reported on Tuesday. [node:read-more:link]
A cost squeeze for contractors intensified in December as the producer price index (PPI) for nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors say they would charge to build a fixed set of buildings—inched up 0.1% from November, while the PPI for inputs to new nonresidential construction jumped 1.7%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) [node:read-more:link]
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in December by 51,000 to a total of 7,413,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. [node:read-more:link]
U.S. population growth slowed for the fifth year in a row, to an all-time low of 0.35% between July 1, 2019 and July 1, 2020 from 0.46% a year earlier, according to AGC’s [node:read-more:link]
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in November trailed pre-pandemic February levels in 35 states and exceeded them in 15 states and the District of Columbia, according to AGC’s [node:read-more:link]
A cost squeeze for contractors eased slightly in November as the producer price index (PPI) for new nonresidential building construction—a measure of the price that contractors say they would charge to build a fixed set of buildings—inched up 0.1% October, while the PPI for inputs to new nonresidential construction held steady after six months of increases, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) [node:read-more:link]
Nonfarm payroll construction employment, seasonally adjusted, increased in October by 27,000 to a total of 7,360,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. [node:read-more:link]
Construction spending in October increased 1.3% from September and 3.7% from October 2019 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1.439 trillion, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. [node:read-more:link]
Seasonally adjusted construction employment in October trailed pre-pandemic February levels in 37 states and exceeded them in 13 states and the District of Columbia, according to AGC’s [node:read-more:link]
A cost squeeze for contractors intensified in October as the producer price index (PPI) for inputs to new nonresidential construction increased for the sixth consecutive month (up 0.5% from September). [node:read-more:link]
