Look ahead: Economic Calendar – for Thu Aug 4, 2016
A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.
Highlights: Thursday’s calendar is busy, and high-profile. But nothing on it has a reliable track record for influencing price action. That can create a vacuum, which then raises the influence of any report that surprises. The two likelier candidates are jobs related.
Rob Kaplan Speaks
6:15 AM ET
*Challenger Job-Cut Report
7:30 AM ET
*Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET
Gallup Good Jobs Rate
8:30 AM ET
Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
9:45 AM ET
Factory Orders
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
