Quikrete Industry Dashboard

In the previous week's Quikrete Industry Dashboard, total starts and single-family starts posted declines for the month of March. Now comes a decline in existing home sales. But not all of the trends highlighted on the dashboard are negative. The unemployment rate remains at a very low 3.8% and stock prices, once again, are unanimously ahead of their trading levels from one month ago.

Meanwhile, gas prices are edging ever closer to $3-per-gallon territory. They are not there yet -- at $2.88 -- but the price has been steadily rising.