Sunday Night Futures
Weekend:• Schedule for Week of July 16, 2017Monday:• At 8:30 AM ET, The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for July. The consensus is...
Author : Calculated Risk
Sacramento Housing in June: Sales up Slightly, Active Inventory down 18% YoY
During the recession, I started following the Sacramento market to look for changes in the mix of houses sold (equity, REOs, and short sales). For...
Schedule for Week of July 16, 2017
The key economic report this week is June Housing Starts on Wednesday.For manufacturing, the July New York and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys, will be released this...
Oil Rigs: “Winter is coming”
A few comments from Steven Kopits of Princeton Energy Advisors LLC on July 14, 2017:• Total US oil rigs were up 2 to 765• Horizontal...
First Look at 2018 Cost-Of-Living Adjustments and Maximum Contribution Base
The BLS reported this morning:The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) increased 1.5 percent over the last 12 months to...
Q2 GDP Forecasts: Moving on Down
From the Altanta Fed: GDPNow The GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the second quarter of 2017 is 2.4...
Key Measures Show Inflation mostly below 2% in June
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI this morning: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, the median Consumer Price...
Industrial Production Increased 0.4% in June
From the Fed: Industrial production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production rose 0.4 percent in June for its fifth consecutive monthly increase. Manufacturing output moved up...
Retail Sales decreased 0.2% in June
On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.3 percent from May to June (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 2.8 percent from June 2016. From...
Friday: Retail Sales, CPI, Industrial Production
Note: I will be interviewed by Prashant Kothari of String on July 20th. Here is the registration information. It should be fun.Friday:• At 8:30 AM...