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To: Lee who wrote (30428)	1/13/2000 8:54:00 AM
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Economic Data for Thursday, Jan 13, 2000 Weekly Jobless claims = unch. at 309k dol.gov In the week ending Jan. 8, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 309,000, unchanged from the previous week's unrevised figure of 309,000. The 4-week moving average was 294,000, an increase of 10,500 from the previous week's revised average of 283,500. Retail Sales for Dec = +1.2% census.gov The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail sales for December adjusted for seasonal, holiday, and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, were $259.6 billion, an increase of 1.2 percent (±0.7%) from the previous month and up 9.7 percent (±0.9%) from December 1998. Total sales for the 12 months of 1999 were $3.0 trillion, up 8.9 percent (±0.3%) from the 1998 total. The October to November 1999 percent change was revised from +0.9 percent (±0.7%) to +1.1 percent (±0.2%). PPI for Dec = + 0.3% Core rate = + 0.1% stats.bls.gov The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods advanced 0.3 percent in December, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Prices for finished goods other than foods and energy edged up 0.1 percent, after showing no change a month earlier; the indexes for finished consumer foods, consumer goods other than foods and energy, and for capital equipment each advanced in December.