Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: An epic day ahead on the economic front. It’s got it all – variety, constancy, simultaneosity (I just invented that word), gravity… probably a lot of action, and maybe a little drama. Romance, too (I love these kinds of days).

ECB and BOE interest rate decisions

Chain Store Sales

Monster Employment Index
6:00 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Productivity and Costs
8:30 AM ET

RBC CASH Index
9:00 AM ET

Factory Orders
10:00 AM ET

Pending Home Sales Index
10:00 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

Treasury STRIPS
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: Two glimpses of the jobs market, just two days ahead of February’s employment situation report. One high-profile econ report 30 minutes after the open is really the morning’s highlight. The afternoon’s Beige Book is the most influential of all the day’s items.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

Challenger Job-Cut Report
7:30 AM ET

ADP Employment Report
8:15 AM ET

ISM Non-Mfg Index
10:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

Beige Book
2:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: The variety among the morning’s items is off-set by their being so mundane.

Geitner at House hearing

Motor Vehicle Sales

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales
7:45 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

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

Highlights: Mondays haven’t been very newsy recently. Here comes three items, two in tandem. The Treasury auctions are short-term paper, but watch for a reaction if the news surprises.

Personal Income and Outlays
8:30 AM ET

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: Each Friday’s reports is high-profile. One, maybe two, on a Friday is typical; there’s at least four. Three come after the open. This schedule could have more potential to be disruptive only if any items were being reported in tandem.

GDP
8:30 AM ET

Chicago PMI
9:45 AM ET

Consumer Sentiment
9:55 AM ET

Existing Home Sales
10:00 AM ET

Farm Prices
3:00 PM ET