Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: Friday’s calendar is the most treacherous of any day in some time, let alone a Friday. Two high-profile post-open items, one at an unusual time (Consumer Sentiment), and the other (ISM Mfg Index) coming simultaneously (with Construction Spending). Should be interesting.

Motor Vehicle Sales

Personal Income and Outlays
8:30 AM ET

Consumer Sentiment
9:55 AM ET

ISM Mfg Index
10:00 AM ET

Construction Spending
10:00 AM ET

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

Highlights: At least two high-profile and influential items are coming Thursday. And GDP isn’t one of them. Jobless Claims is always impactful, but so are most post-open releases. And Chicago PMI’s localized data increases its potential to surprise.

GDP
8:30 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Corporate Profits
8:30 AM ET

Chicago PMI
9:45 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: Mortgage loan activity might have gotten a spurt from last week’s brief interest rate drop. But that’s probably the day’s last opportunity for pre-scheduled news items to affect it.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

7-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM 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’s calendar offers several looks at the consumer. And several opportunities to create chaos and opportunity. The two pre-open items are retail sales data for the prior week. Case-Shiller tracks home prices from two months earlier, and a lot has happened since then.

Imagine the market’s confusion if it reacts one way to recent retail sales, only to be blind-sided by home prices suggesting the opposite. Consumer Confidence at 10am could be widely watched to better define earlier perceptions. Agreement among the morning’s earlier data would make more Consumer Confidence more capable of disrupting the cash session’s opening action.

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

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: After a relatively heavy calendar, the next week gets off to a slow start Monday with no scheduled econ reports.

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

2-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET