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Home Improvement Weekly Report 8/12/2022

Welcome to the Home Improvement Weekly report for August 8-12, 2022 . In this report you can get information on home construction related commodities and stock information for the major industry companies. You can also see highlighted details from the Department of Labor’s latest Consumer Price Index report for July 2022.

Stocks, Indexes, and Futures

Company/CommodityWeek OpenWeek CloseChange
Lowes$203.35 $206.47 1.53%
Home Depot$313.33 $314.89 0.50%
Grainger$560.88 $579.88 3.39%
Masco$53.33 $55.58 4.22%
Tractor Supply Company$191.65 $196.93 2.76%
Lumber Futures$488.90 $580.50 18.74%
ARCA Steel Index$1,591.19 $1,653.55 3.92%
Aluminum$2,448.64 $2,402.80 -1.87%
Source: Yahoo Finance and Business Insider’s “Markets Insider”

Year to Date Performance

Company/IndexYear OpenWeek CloseChange
Lowes$255.51 $206.47 -19.19%
Home Depot$408.64 $314.89 -22.94%
Grainger$510.20 $579.88 13.66%
Masco$69.42 $55.58 -19.94%
Tractor Supply Company$235.72 $196.93 -16.46%
Dow Jones36,585.0633,761.05-7.72%
NASDAQ15,832.8013,047.19-17.59%
S&P 5004,796.564,280.15-10.77%
Source: Yahoo Finance

Inflation Report for July 2022

Consumer Price Index

  • Year over Year (YoY) Inflation: 8.5%
  • One Month Change: 0.0%

Electricity Services

  • YoY: 14.2%
  • One Month: 1.6%

Shelter

  • YoY: 5.7%
  • One Month: 0.5%

Source: U.S. Department of Labor

The full report can be found here: Consumer Price Index – July 2022

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