Economy

National retail sales in November are off to a good start. Helped by several factors, including cold weather and lower gasoline prices, retail sales across the country were up 1.2 percent week-to-week for the week ending Nov. 9, according to data released Tuesday by theInternational Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman …

The Inland Empire will have nearly 70,000 construction jobs during 2020. That’s the prediction of state Employment Development Department, which based its forecast on historical trends matched up against a prediction it made six years ago, according to a report originally published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. If that …

National retail sales took slight drop during the end of October, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Index. For the week that ended Saturday, sales declined 0.6 percent compared with a 0.4 percent drop the week before, according to the council. …

Manufacturing continued to grow – barely – in the Inland Empire during October, The purchasing manager’s index for the two-county region last month was 50.7,  just enough to register a growing manufacturing sector, according to the data released Friday by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at California …

The Inland Empire’s economy will experience only modest growth this year and the next two years, according to a local economist. The two-county region’s gross domestic product – the sum total of all goods and services produced there – should grow two percent this year and three percent in 2014 and …

Manufacturing in the Inland Empire perked up during September, breaking a two-month downturn, according to data released this week. The two-county region’s purchasing manager’s index – which measures the health of the manufacturing sector through several indicators, including new orders, inventory, production and deliveries – was 53.0 last month, according …