{"id":437314,"date":"2026-09-01T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-construction-spending-for-july-0-5-versus-0-0-expected-437314\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:28:49","slug":"us-construction-spending-for-july-0-5-versus-0-0-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/us-construction-spending-for-july-0-5-versus-0-0-expected-437314\/","title":{"rendered":"US construction spending for July -0.5% versus 0.0% expected."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior month 0.0% revised from -0.1%<\/li>\n<li>Construction spending for July -0.5% versus 0.0% expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details from the US Census:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total construction spending fell -0.5% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $2,157.6 billion, from June\u2019s revised $2,167.7 billion.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nSpending was down 3.8% from July 2025.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nYear-to-date spending totaled $1,244.6 billion through July, down 3.5% from the same period in 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Private construction data for the month of July:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nPrivate construction spending fell 0.5% to $1,614.2 billion.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPrivate residential spending declined 1.3% to $859.0 billion, leading the overall pullback.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPrivate nonresidential spending rose 0.4% to $755.2 billion, providing a partial offset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Public construction data for the the month of July<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nPublic construction spending slipped 0.2% to $543.4 billion.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPublic educational construction fell 0.2% to $112.3 billion.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nPublic highway construction declined 0.2% to $150.3 billion.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, a weaker report, with residential construction driving the monthly decline. Private nonresidential spending was the bright spot, but spending remained below year-earlier levels both in July and year to date.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior month 0.0% revised from -0.1% Construction spending for July -0.5% versus 0.0% expected Details from the US Census: Total construction spending fell -0.5% in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}