Momentum, not snapshots
We emphasize change across 1, 3 and 6 releases instead of making one noisy point look like a trend.
Updated from U.S. Census BTOS
What is changing in American business right now?
Business Pulse turns biweekly Census data into a fast read on momentum: which industries and states are strengthening, weakening, or diverging from their six-month outlook.
Public dataBiweekly releasesNo paywallIndependent analysis
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Business Pulse Momentum is our analytical score, not an official Census metric.
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The fast scan
Where momentum is strongest — and weakest
Ranked by our multi-release Business Pulse Momentum score.
Industries
All industriesLeading sectors
States
All statesLeading states
Side-by-side
Compare two business pulses
Pick a state or industry and compare current conditions, multi-release direction and six-month outlook.
Try Texas vs. ManufacturingWe will line up the same BTOS signals for both.
Different from a dashboard
Built to answer “what changed?”
Current vs. future
See where today’s performance disagrees with the six-month outlook — one of the most useful BTOS divergences.
Sampling signal
When source standard errors are available, changes are flagged against a 95% threshold. Missing uncertainty is shown as unavailable, never guessed.
One page per entity
Every state and sector gets a durable page with its latest reading, history and plain-language context.
Source-first by design
Official estimates in. Clearer comparisons out.
Every reading traces back to the U.S. Census Bureau BTOS. Our Momentum score is explicitly separated from official Census measures.