Bureau of Economic Analysis

The U.S. current-account deficit — a net measure of transactions between the United States and the rest of the world in goods, services, primary income (investment income and compensation), and secondary income (current transfers) — increased to $100.3 billion (preliminary) in the third quarter of 2014 from $98.4 billion (revised) in the second quarter of 2014. As a percentage of U.S. GDP, the deficit remained at 2.3 percent. The…

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Preliminary statistics on people’s incomes by state in the third quarter of 2014 will be released Friday, Dec. 19 by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

These state personal income statistics will provide BEA’s first look at state economies for the July-September quarter of 2014 and serve as a basis for government and business decision making. For example:

Operational improvements at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) mean the public will soon get to see more regional economic data. These improvements will safeguard businesses’ private information, while ensuring vital regional data is available to policy makers and other data users. BEA is constantly looking at ways to better provide the information that users need while protecting the confidentiality of employers’ records.

Developers, do you want to bring more detailed economic data to your next app? The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently added several data sets to the application programming interface (API) we launched last year.

The API now provides direct access to the gross domestic product (GDP) underlying detail tables. Those tables contain a wealth of statistics, including how much consumers spend on hundreds of items like furnishings,…

The U.S. monthly international trade deficit decreased in October 2014 according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. The deficit decreased from $43.6 billion in September (revised) to $43.4 billion in October, as exports increased more than imports. The previously published September deficit was $43.0 billion. The goods deficit increased less than $0.1 billion from September to $62.7 billion in October. The…

Personal income rose 0.2 percent in October, the same increase as in September. Wages and salaries, the largest component of personal  income, rose 0.3 percent in October after rising 0.2 percent in September.

Current-dollar disposable personal income (DPI), after-tax income, rose 0.2 percent in October after rising 0.1 percent in September.

Real DPI, income adjusted for taxes and inflation, increased…

Personal income increased $32.9 billion, or 0.2 percent, and disposable personal income (DPI) increased $23.4 billion, or 0.2 percent, in October, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased $27.3 billion, or 0.2 percent. In September, personal income increased $24.6 billion, or 0.2 percent, DPI increased $17.2 billion, or 0.1 percent, and PCE increased $4.1 billion, or less than 0.1 percent…

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.9 percent in the third quarter of 2014, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the second quarter, real GDP increased 4.6 percent.

Third-quarter highlights The increase in GDP in the third quarter reflected the following: