Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Two reports on a Monday are already disruptive. Simultaneous post-open reports can only increase the potential for influencing price action. And at least one has a track record of having an impact.

ISM Mfg Index
10:00 AM ET

Construction Spending
10:00 AM ET

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

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

Highlights: Friday’s two post-open items always make the open tricky. Chicago PMI can trigger a premature reaction at its private release if its number is a surprise. When it does, that reaction tends to gain traction — and then either influence Consumer Sentiment’s reaction, or absorb it.

Personal Income and Outlays
8:30 AM ET

Chicago PMI
9:45 AM ET

Consumer Sentiment
9:55 AM ET

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

Highlights: Thursday’s calendar seems busy. But its relevant item is probably only the pre-open Claims. It is announced simultaneously with two other items, one of which is high-profile but not necessarily influential to price action. The afternoon’s note auction will be watched, and it is far enough out the yield curve to be vulnerable.

GDP
8:30 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Corporate Profits
8:30 AM ET

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
9:45 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Index
11:00 AM ET

7-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

Farm Prices
3:00 PM ET

Fed Balance Sheet
4:30 PM ET

Money Supply
4:30 PM ET

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

Highlights: The pre-open MBA Apps has influenced price action only when its data surprise. Housing numbers have been weaker recently, so a surprise must be either bullish or terribly bearish. Durable Goods also needs a surprise to be influential.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

Durable Goods Orders
8:30 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

5-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: A steady flow of high-profile econ report through the morning culminates in a noon hour lecture at GW by Bernanke. It may be watched closely (i.e. inhibit price action before it) due to Monday’s reaction to his pre-open speech. 

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales
7:45 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

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

Consumer Confidence
10:00 AM ET

Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index
10:00 AM ET

State Street Investor Confidence Index
10:00 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

Ben Bernanke Speaks
12:45 PM ET

2-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET