> BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2001:
>
> RELEASED TODAY: The U.S. Import Price Index fell 1.6 percent in March,
> the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The decrease was attributable to
> falling prices for both petroleum and nonpetroleum imports. The Export
> Price Index declined 0.1 percent in March, after decreasing 0.2 percent in
> February.
>
> An index of newspaper help-wanted ads declined 21 percent in February from
> a year earlier, sinking to the lowest level since 1992. Not surprisingly,
> manufacturing intensive regions such as the Great Lakes and metropolitan
> areas like Cincinnati saw some of the biggest declines. But job ads in
> areas that seemed resilient by other employment measures, including Dallas
> and Denver, also dropped sharply. The decreases could signal problems
> among those two cities' telecom employers, says the Economy.com's chief
> economist. Only the New England region reported an increase, perhaps
> because its software and biotechnology companies aren't reducing hiring as
> much. The index doesn't yet foretell a recession, says an economist at
> the Conference Board, which compiles the measure of ads in 51 metro areas
> (The Wall Street Journal, page B13).
>
> Last year's employment growth in the western nine-state region was revised
> upward 0.6 percent by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, boosting the
> area's annual job growth last year to 3.5 percent, more than double the
> U.S. rate of 1.4 percent (The Wall Street Journal, page B13).
>
> DUE OUT TOMORROW: Producer Price Indexes -- March 2001
>
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