Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Friday’s calendar is relatively light, and relatively heavy. It’s just the one item, but it’s the month’s most influential. With a three-day weekend about to begin, look for an exaggerated initial reaction. And look for that initial reaction to extend if it were to settle beyond a relevant support or resistance, instead of snapping back.

Employment Situation
8:30 AM ET

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

Highlights: The busiest weekly econ calendar since founding the United States of America continues Thursday (or, so it seems). Two looks at consumer health, two looks at employment ahead of Friday’s big report, and then two post-open looks at industry. Although often the reaction to pre-open reports tends to set the tone for post-open, the later industry metrics could be surprising compared to the earlier consumer data.

Chain Store Sales

Motor Vehicle Sales

Monster Employment Index
6:00 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Productivity and Costs
8:30 AM ET

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
9:45 AM ET

ISM Mfg Index
10:00 AM ET

Construction Spending
10:00 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM 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: Wednesday’s calendar keeps up this week’s tradition of trickiness. Two pre-open jobs reports start to frame Friday’s Employment Situation report. And another unusually-timed post-open report comes 15 minutes after the open.  Factory Orders at 10:00 can be influential, but probably won’t be here unless it were to contradict impressions that were made by the morning’s reports.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

Challenger Job-Cut Report
7:30 AM ET

ADP Employment Report
8:15 AM ET

Chicago PMI
9:45 AM ET

Factory Orders
10:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status 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: Tuesday is one of the trickiest calendars in some time. The pre-open Home Prices Index is unusually-timed at 9:00am, and its data is influential. The post-open Consumer Confidence also tends to impact price action. And the afternoon’s FOMC Minutes after the noon hour can inhibit price action before it, and incite volatility in its wake.

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

State Street Investor Confidence Index
10:00 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM 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: Two econ reports on a Monday, both pre-open and post-open, and at least one (Pending Home Sales) is high-profile and likely to influence price action. That’s how to start a week.

Personal Income and Outlays
8:30 AM ET

Pending Home Sales Index
10:00 AM ET

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET