1.  Bloomberg Business News today publishes another report on employment trends for various states and regions, on the same day that the U.S. Labor Department issues its monthly statistics.

2.  Connecticut is not one of the states for which employment data are released in the first batch of monthly statistics from Washington.

3.  Furthermore, the monthly statistics show a steady decline in deployment since May last year.

4.  The agency keeps monthly statistics on food grain consumption and production and Kahn says the latest data is encouraging.

5.  The US currency gained in early trading after the release of better-than-expected monthly statistics on industrial output.

6.  Nevertheless, economists warned against getting too excited about the data, which might be overstated by changes in the calculation of the monthly statistics, they suggested.

7.  Nerb also noted that changes in the calculation of the monthly statistics might be muddying the waters.

8.  Since January, the monthly statistics from the Commerce Department for foreign trade have also included services such as tourism and royalties.

9.  Sterling rose on the London exchange Wednesday, boosted by latest monthly statistics showing a sharp increase in manufacturing production for April.