State Coincident Indexes in December 2024
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s state coincident indexes were mixed to soft in December. In the one-month changes, Delaware led with a .72 percent gain, and Minnesota, Montana, and Washington had increases above .5 percent. 15 states registered declines, with Alabama down more than .4 percent. Over the 3 months ending in December, 11 states were down, with Michigan off by .7 percent and Maine dropping .71 percent. Delaware, though, was up more than 1.8 percent, with Washington, Missouri, Utah and Montana also showing increases above 1 percent. Over the last 12 months, 6 states were down, and 10 others saw increases of less than 1 percent. South Carolina’s index dropped 1.52 percent. Connecticut was up 4.72 percent and Arizona rose 4.28 percent.
The independently estimated national estimates of growth over the last 3 months and 12 months were, respectively, .61 and 2.65 percent. These both appear to be roughly in line with the state numbers.
Charles Steindel
AuthorMore in Author Profile »Charles Steindel has been editor of Business Economics, the journal of the National Association for Business Economics, since 2016. From 2014 to 2021 he was Resident Scholar at the Anisfield School of Business, Ramapo College of New Jersey. From 2010 to 2014 he was the first Chief Economist of the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, with responsibilities for economic and revenue projections and analysis of state economic policy. He came to the Treasury after a long career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he played a major role in forecasting and policy advice and rose to the rank of Senior Vice-President. He has served in leadership positions in a number of professional organizations. In 2011 he received the William F. Butler Award from the New York Association for Business Economics, is a fellow of NABE and of the Money Marketeers of New York University, and has received several awards for articles published in Business Economics. In 2017 he delivered Ramapo College's Sebastian J. Raciti Memorial Lecture. He is a member of the panel for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Survey of Professional Forecasters and of the Committee on Research in Income and Wealth. He has published papers in a range of areas, and is the author of Economic Indicators for Professionals: Putting the Statistics into Perspective. He received his bachelor's degree from Emory University, his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a National Association for Business Economics Certified Business EconomistTM.