Wednesday:
• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
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• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
• At 8:30 AM, The Producer Price Index for March from the BLS. The consensus is for a 1.1% increase in PPI, and a 0.5% increase in core PPI.
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 65.8% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 218.5 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3🚩 | 30,496 | 25,208 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3 | 9,704 | 10,807 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3 | 507 | 540 | ≤502 | |
| 1 Minimum to achieve “herd immunity” (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 37-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met. |
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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.
Hospitalizations and deaths are declining.
New cases are increasing again.