Econ Calendar

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: It has become rarer through the years for the Employment Situation report to be released in a vacuum. But that has usually meant one and maybe two other reports following it. This Friday’s report is unusual for so many reports following it. Post-open, high-profile, reliably influential to price action, and three to be released simultaneously. Volatility should be unusually high for a Friday morning.

*Employment Situation
8:30 AM ET

*PMI Manufacturing Index
9:45 AM ET

*ISM Mfg Index
10:00 AM ET

Construction Spending
10:00 AM ET

*Consumer Sentiment
10:00 AM ET

Baker-Hughes Rig Count
1:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: No reliably influential pre-open reports Thursday, but any noticeable reaction is likely to be duplicated in reaction to the post-open report. And that’s a reliably influential report, with its private release to its own institutional subscribers producing a reaction that tends to repeat when its data are released publicly several minutes later. AMZN reports earnings post-close.

Challenger Job-Cut Report
7:30 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Personal Income and Outlays
8:30 AM ET

Employment Cost Index
8:30 AM ET

*Chicago PMI
9:45 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

Farm Prices
3:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: It’s monthly payrolls week, so jobs reports take a higher-profile for fine-tuning its data, and for gauging market sentiment. That begins with Wednesday’s ADP report. The afternoon’s FOMC policy statement is both high-profile and reliably influential to price action, but even more so is the subsequent Fed Chair press conference. Then MSFT and FB announce earnings post-close, which often inhibits volatility, so this will be an interesting close.

MBA Mortgage Applications
7:00 AM ET

*ADP Employment Report
8:15 AM ET

GDP
8:30 AM ET

Pending Home Sales Index
10:00 AM ET

State Street Investor Confidence Index
10:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

*FOMC Meeting Announcement
2:00 PM ET

*Fed Chair Press Conference
2:30 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Any noticeable reaction to Tuesday’s pre-open reports is likely to be duplicated in reaction to the post-open reports. And one of those post-open reports is both high-profile and reliably influential to price action.

International Trade in Goods
8:30 AM ET

Retail Inventories [Advance]
8:30 AM ET

Wholesale Inventories [Advance]
8:30 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

S&P Corelogic Case-Shiller HPI
9:00 AM ET

*Consumer Confidence
10:00 AM ET

2-Yr FRN Note Auction
11:30 AM ET

7-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Only one of the Fed surveys (Philly Fed) is reliably influential to price action. Neither of Monday’s two Fed surveys is it. But both are still high-profile enough to generate a reaction if either one’s data are wildly surprising.

Chicago Fed National Activity Index
8:30 AM ET

Dallas Fed Mfg Survey
10:30 AM ET