Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Friday’s calendar seems busy, but only the oddly-time 9:55 Consumer Sentiment tends to influence price action.

Retail Sales
8:30 AM ET

Import and Export Prices
8:30 AM ET

Consumer Sentiment
9:55 AM ET

Business Inventories
10:00 AM ET

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

Highlights: The calendar is finally getting interesting. Wednesday afternoon’s FOMC Minutes are followed Thursday by Jobless Claims, and the 30-year auction.

International Trade
8:30 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
9:45 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
11:00 AM ET

30-Yr Bond Auction
1:00 PM ET

Treasury Budget
2:00 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 calendar starts heating up Wednesday with the afternoon’s FOMC Minutes. But although the morning’s items aren’t normally influential, the market will be more sensitive to any surprise since econ reports have been sparse since last week.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales
7:45 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

Ceridian-UCLA PCI
9:00 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

10-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

FOMC Minutes
2:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: There were no econ reports Monday due to the government holiday. Tuesday may as well be a holiday, too. The pre-open item isn’t influential, and the Treasury auctions are all relatively short-term paper.
NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
7:30 AM ET

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

3-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: Stock markets are open, but much less liquid with much less ability to lay-off risk in Treasuries. No econ reports are scheduled under these conditions.

Columbus Day
Banks and Treasury market closed