Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Personal Income and Outlays, June 2022. The consensus is for a 0.5% increase in personal income, and for a 0.9% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.5%. PCE prices are expected to be up 6.6% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.7% YoY.
• At 9:45 AM, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for July.
• At 10:00 AM, University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index (Final for July). The consensus is for a reading of 51.1.
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
Hospitalizations have almost quadrupled from the lows in April 2022.
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| COVID Metrics | ||||
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| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| New Cases per Day2 | 126,272 | 127,478 | ≤5,0001 | |
| Hospitalized2🚩 | 37,069 | 35,500 | ≤3,0001 | |
| Deaths per Day2 | 364 | 382 | ≤501 | |
| 1my goals to stop daily posts, 27-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.
Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.