Econ Calendar

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

Highlights: The pre-open report is already high-profile and influential on price action. Two more each are also high-profile, and they’ll be released simultaneously which can be disruptive. Add to this that they are due after the open, timing that tends either to accelerate or to reverse any initial trending underway.

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Leading Indicators
10:00 AM ET

Philadelphia Fed Survey
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: Consider the reaction to Tuesday’s glimpses of consumer retail activity. The CPI and Housing Starts are doubly influential for their releases being simultaneous.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

Consumer Price Index
8:30 AM ET

Housing Starts
8:30 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

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

Highlights: The usual weekly retail snapshots get some interesting company today from the PPI. This market has been doing better with news than without it, absorbing the occasional unfavorable item. But be aware of the potential for a double whammy for bad news on both the consumer and producer – that would qualify as “man bites dog.”

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales
7:45 AM ET

Producer Price Index
8:30 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

Industrial Production
9:15 AM ET

4-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

52-Week Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

Housing Market Index
1:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Here’s a rarity – an econ report released before Monday’s open. Here’s another rarity – releasing two simultaneously. They’re more easily absorbed during the week when some degree of liquidity has been established already. But this schedule has the potential to blind-side participants. It certainly adds to market confusion, instead of detracting from it.

Retail Sales
8:30 AM ET

Empire State Mfg Survey
8:30 AM ET

Business Inventories
10:00 AM ET

3-Month Bill Auction
1:00 PM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
1:00 PM ET

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

Highlights: Fridays can get real slow, real fast. Releasing a high-profile report after the open can help to keep alive the volatility… P.S. Happy Friday the 13th.

International Trade
8:30 AM ET

Import and Export Prices
8:30 AM ET

Consumer Sentiment
9:55 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET