Quikrete Industry Dashboard

The latest Quikrete Industry Dashboard features updates across the board of the “Consumer Watch” section: unemployment rate, Consumer Confidence Index and Gas prices. 

And the pandemic has wreaked havoc with two out of three. The 11.1% unemployment rate is down from the previous month, but a far cry from the year-ago rate of 3.7%.

Consumer Confidence Index stands at 98.1. That is also up for the month, but well off the 124.3 reading from a year ago.

And gas prices have slowly increased to a national average of $2.18 for a gallon of regular.

Coming up next: The Commerce Dept. will report Monthly Retail Sales for June on July 16. Housing starts for June are expected to be released on July 17.