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A generic summary tells you what a report showed. Your briefing starts from your business profile and explains what the release could mean for your costs, customers and plans. Highlighted phrases below come straight from this business's profile.
Written for: specialty food manufacturer, Ohio
Illustrative exampleA family-owned specialty food manufacturer in Ohio. The report it should care about this week: the Producer Price Index, which tracks what businesses pay their suppliers.
Business day before
The Producer Price Index comes out tomorrow. For you, the lines to watch are food ingredients1 and packaging materials2, your two biggest costs. With your price review next quarter3, this release is an early read on where your input costs are heading.
Release day: the Producer Price Index is published
Usually the same day
Producer prices for food ingredients1 rose again, while packaging materials2 held steady. With ingredients your largest cost, margins may stay under pressure, which supports your planned price review3.
A real briefing quotes the report's own figures here.
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Illustrative example, shortened. It is not based on a specific release and contains no real data; real briefings quote the report's own figures.
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The business day before a major report that matters to your business, we email you what it is, why it may matter to you, and what to watch for.
As soon as the new figures are in, usually the same day, we email you a complete impact briefing: what the report showed and what it could mean for your costs, prices, customers, hiring, borrowing and plans.
The economic news that matters to your business, explained for your business.
For subscribers, an email the business day before a major report such as CPI, the jobs report or GDP: what it measures, why it may matter to your business, and what to watch for.
Once the report is out, a briefing that quotes the official figures and explains what they could mean for your business. Subscribers keep every briefing in their dashboard history.
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About 40 official US economic reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Census Bureau and the Federal Reserve, including CPI, the jobs report, GDP, PCE inflation, retail sales, producer prices, job openings and FOMC statements. Email briefings go out for the major releases. The full list, with release dates, is on The Reports page.
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Free: a starter business profile and one complete personalized economic briefing, with no credit card required. A subscription ($9.95/month) adds ongoing monitoring: personalized heads-ups before relevant releases, complete impact briefings after them and your briefing history. Free accounts may occasionally get a short reminder that a relevant report is coming out, with an invitation to subscribe; these are not briefings.
Times are your business's local time (based on the first state in your profile, or Eastern time). Subscribers get a heads-up from 9am the business day before a relevant release, and the impact briefing as soon as the new figures are in, usually the same day (between 7am and 9pm), as a short summary, in medium detail or as a deep analysis: their choice. If several reports land together, we lead with the one that matters most to your business and mention the others. When nothing major is due, subscribers get a short catch-up every few days. You can change the detail or turn these emails off from your dashboard.
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