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Current Economic Trends: CEPCI Update

The preliminary value for the December 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) was down compared to the previous month’s data, continuing a string of declines in recent months. All subindices saw declines in December, except Engineering…

Current Economic Trends: November 2015

The preliminary value for the November 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) declined again from the previous month, driven by a relatively large decrease in the Equipment subindex and small decreases in the Buildings and Construction…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the October 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued a string of monthly declines that has been observed in recent months. For October, the drop is driven by a decline in the…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the September 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) once again fell compared to the previous month’s value, driven by declines in Equipment producer prices, as well as drops in the Buildings and…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the August 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) fell compared to the previous month’s value, driven by declines in the Equipment and Buildings subindices. The Construction Labor and Engineering & Supervision subindices…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the July 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) fell compared to the previous month’s value, driven by a decline in the Equipment subindex. The Construction Labor, Buildings and Engineering & Supervision subindices…

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Current Economic Trends: April

The preliminary value for the April 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued the trend of small monthly declines since the beginning of the year. The April CEPCI is 1.8% lower than the corresponding value from…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the March 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) once again declined from the previous month's value, and remains 0.5% lower than the corresponding value from a year ago at the same time.…

Current economic trends

The preliminary value for the February 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; most recent available) declined from the previous month’s value and now stands at 0.7% lower than the corresponding value from a year ago. The  Equipment, Construction Labor and…

Economic Indicators: CEPCI

The preliminary value for the January 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; most recent available) edged downward from the previous month’s value for the fourth consecutive month. The first calculated value for 2015 sits only 0.11% higher than the year-earlier…