Friday:
• At 8:30 AM ET: Personal Income and Outlays, April 2021. The consensus is for a 0.6% increase in personal income, and for a 0.7% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.3%. PCE prices are expected to be up 6.3% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.9% YoY.
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• At 8:30 AM ET: Personal Income and Outlays, April 2021. The consensus is for a 0.6% increase in personal income, and for a 0.7% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.3%. PCE prices are expected to be up 6.3% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.9% YoY.
• At 10:00 AM: University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index (Final for May). The consensus is for a reading of 59.1.
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 66.6% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 221.1 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3🚩 | 109,564 | 101,091 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3🚩 | 19,949 | 17,491 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3🚩 | 305 | 278 | ≤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.
New cases have more than quadrupled from the recent low, and hospitalizations and deaths are increasing week-over-week.
Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.