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Trade (FTC)
- Court Halts Credit Repair Scammers in Response to FTC Contempt ChargesHargrave Operation Falsely Claimed it Could Repair Anyone's Credit for $250 […]
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Commerce News
- Last Call for the Low Power Television and Translator Digital Upgrade ProgramWilliam Cooperman, Director, Broadcast Division, Office of Information and Telecommunications Applications, NTIA May 25, 2012 The deadline for analog low-power television stations and translator stations to apply for a federal grant to cover digital upgrade costs is fast approaching. The last day that NTIA can accept grant applications under the Digital Upgr […]
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Small Business News
- Letter dated - 6/01/2012 Office of Management and BudgetLanding page summary: The U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) submits the following comments on the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) request for information on Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and In Conformity Assessment Activities. Printer Friendly Version, […]
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Cost Estimates
- H.R. 4383, Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act of 2012As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 16, 2012 read more […]
- H.R. 4381, Planning for American Energy Act of 2012As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 16, 2012 read more […]
- H.R. 4402, National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on May 16, 2012 CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 4402 would have no significant impact on the federal budget. Enacting the bill could reduce mandatory payments for attorneys’ fees over the 2013-2022 period; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, CBO estimates that any such impac […]
- H.R. 4383, Streamlining Permitting of American Energy Act of 2012
Banking
- OCC Appoints Receiver for Carolina Federal Savings BankThe Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver for Carolina Federal Savings Bank, Charleston, South Carolina, a federal savings association. As of March 31, 2012, the institution had approximately $54.4 million in total assets. […]
- OCC Appoints Receiver for Carolina Federal Savings Bank
Gross Domestic Product by Industry, 2011
EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EDT, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012BEA 12-16Durable-Goods Manufacturing Led Growth in 2011
Advance GDP by Industry Statistics for 2011
Durable-goods manufacturing, professional, scientific, and technical services, and information services were the leading contributors to U.S. economic growth in 2011, according to advance statistics on the breakout of real gross domestic product (GDP) by industry from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Overall, 15 of 22 industry groups contributed to the 1.7 percent increase in real GDP.
Real manufacturing value added—a measure of an industry’s contribution to GDP—rose 4.3 percent in 2011, after increasing 11.2 percent in 2010. Durable-goods manufacturing, the largest contributor to overall growth, increased 7.9 percent, after increasing 17.0 percent in 2010. Nondurable-goods manufacturing rose 0.3 percent in 2011, after increasing 5.1 percent in 2010.
Professional, scientific, and technical services increased 4.9 percent in 2011, matching the 2010 growth rate.
Information services, which includes publishing and telecommunications, accelerated in 2011, increasing 5.1 percent after increasing 3.0 percent in 2010.
Prices:
Value added prices accelerated in 2011, increasing 2.1 percent after increasing 1.2 percent in 2010. Retail trade and nondurable-goods were among the largest contributors to the acceleration in the GDP price index for 2011. Value added prices measure changes in an industry’s unit costs of capital and labor inputs, as well as the profits per unit of output, and reflect the productivity of capital and labor used by the industry.
Value added prices for the goods-producing sector accelerated in 2011, increasing 5.5 percent after increasing 1.5 percent in 2010. Value added prices for the services-producing sector also accelerated in 2011, increasing 1.7 percent after increasing 0.7 percent in 2010.
Value added prices for retail trade turned up in 2011, increasing 1.6 percent after decreasing 4.0 percent in 2010.
Value added prices for real estate and rental and leasing turned up in 2011, increasing 1.9 percent in 2011, after decreasing 1.0 percent in 2010.
Other highlights:
Manufacturing’s current-dollar share of GDP increased for the second consecutive year, to 12.2 percent, its highest share since 2006, and reflected increases in both durable and nondurable-goods manufacturing.
Mining value added turned up in 2011, increasing 6.4 percent after decreasing 6.1 percent in 2010.
Real value added for the utilities sector turned down in 2011, decreasing 6.2 percent after increasing 3.3 percent in 2010.
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