Data studio ยท Manufacturing pulse
Plot any data against any other.
An interactive workbench for U.S. manufacturing data: pick from 80+ live government series, overlay them on one chart, index them to a common base, and read
What you can do
- Overlay any of the 58 live series the site tracks on a single chart and compare them directly.
- Index every series to a common base of 100 so indicators with different units (a $70 crude price and a 350-point index) can be compared fairly.
- Read the correlation and lead-lag between any two chosen series, computed on month-over-month changes so a shared trend is not mistaken for a relationship.
Interest rates series
- 10-year Treasury yield, Effective federal funds rate, Bank prime loan rate.
Trade flows series
- Aluminum imports, Copper imports, Electrical machinery and equipment imports, Iron and steel imports, Machinery and mechanical appliances imports, Plastics imports, Rubber imports, Vehicles imports.
Fuels and spot energy series
- Brent crude oil spot, Henry Hub natural gas spot, Mont Belvieu propane spot, On-highway diesel, retail, Regular gasoline, retail, WTI crude oil spot.
Exchange rates series
- Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan, Euro, Japanese yen, Mexican peso.
Factory activity series
- Capacity utilization, manufacturing, Capacity utilization, total industry.
Energy prices series
- Commercial electricity price, Industrial electricity price, Industrial natural gas price.
Materials and producer prices series
- Global aluminum price, Global copper price, Iron ore price, PPI: aluminum mill shapes, PPI: bolts, nuts, screws, rivets, and washers, PPI: copper and brass mill shapes, PPI: industrial chemicals, PPI: industrial gases, PPI: iron and steel, PPI: iron and steel castings, PPI: lumber and wood products, PPI: machinery and equipment, PPI: paints and allied products, PPI: paperboard and containers, PPI: plastic resins and materials, PPI: steel mill products.
Factory demand series
- Housing starts, Light vehicle sales, Manufacturers' inventories to sales ratio, Manufacturers' new orders, Manufacturing average weekly hours, Manufacturing industrial production, Manufacturing job openings, Truck tonnage index.
Labor series
- Manufacturing average hourly earnings, all employees, Manufacturing employment, Manufacturing hires rate, Manufacturing labor productivity, quarterly change, Manufacturing overtime hours, Manufacturing quits rate, Manufacturing unit labor costs, quarterly change.
Sources
- Every series comes from the EIA, BLS, Census Bureau, Federal Reserve, or IMF and refreshes automatically on a weekday cadence.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.