Atlanta Fed: GDPNow delines to 1.9% for Q1
From the Atlanta Fed: GDPNowThe GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2018 is 1.9 percent...
Author : Calculated Risk
Retail Sales decreased 0.1% in February
On a monthly basis, retail sales decreased 0.1 percent from January to February (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.0 percent from February 2017. From...
MBA: Purchase Mortgage Applications Increase, Refinance Applications Decrease in Latest Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Purchase Apps Up, Refis Down in Latest MBA Weekly Survey Mortgage applications increased 0.9 percent from one week earlier, according to data...
Wednesday: Retail Sales, PPI
Wednesday:• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.• At 8:30 AM, Retail sales...
LA area Port Traffic Increases YoY in February
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since...
Larry Kudlow is usually wrong
With all the discussion that Larry Kudlow might be named the new director of the White House's National Economic Council, I've been asked to repost...
Key Measures Show Inflation About the Same Year-over-year in February as in January
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 Index...
Small Business Optimism Index Increased in February, “Difficulty of finding qualified workers” is Top Problem
Small business owners are showing unprecedented confidence in the economy as the optimism index continues at record high numbers, rising to 107.6 in February, according...
BLS: CPI increased 0.2% in February, Core CPI increased 0.2%
From the BLS: The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in February on a seasonally adjusted basis after rising 0.5...
Tuesday: CPI, Small Business Confidence
From Matthew Graham at Mortgage News Daily: Mortgage Rates Just Barely Lower Ahead of Key Inflation DataMortgage rates spent the entirety of last week at...