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Trade, Pending home sales, New home sales, Durable goods, Bank lending, Earnings
Economic Releases
Sep 27, 2018
Need more tariffs… Highlights Amid the unfolding of tariff effects, exports are moving in the wrong direction and look to be a big negative for third-quarter GDP. The nation’s trade deficit in goods was a whopping $75.8 billion in August with exports down 1.6 percent for a second straight month. Imports are
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PMI, Existing home sales, Permits, Homebuying index, Fed book, China car sales, Federal budget
Economic Releases, Uncategorized
Sep 24, 2018
Highlights Amid a backdrop of rising inflation pressures, sharp slowing in the services PMI sample pulled down September’s composite flash and masks a strong showing for manufacturing. The PMI composite fell to 53.4 which is well below Econoday’s consensus for 55.1 and also below the low estimate for 53.8. Services fell to
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Employment, Rental markets
Economic Releases
Sep 07, 2018
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised down from +248,000 to +208,000, and the change for July was revised down from +157,000 to +147,000. With these revisions, employment gains in June and July combined were 50,000 less than previously reported. Read more at https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/#eVuYdeqRRy7O1pt6.99 Looks like the private
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Construction spending, Trade
Economic Releases
Sep 05, 2018
Highlights A solid rise in residential spending offset a mixed showing for non-housing components and made for a 0.1 percent July rise in overall construction spending to barely come within Econoday’s consensus range. Residential spending rose 0.6 percent but July’s gain was entirely centered in home improvements which jumped 2.1 percent to
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Personal income, Pending home sales, Real house prices
Economic Releases
Aug 30, 2018
Flattened out at modest levels of growth with no sign that the tax cuts have led to an acceleration: Pending home sales fall for seventh straight month in July Signed contracts to buy existing homes fell 0.7 percent in July compared with June, according to the National Association of Realtors’ pending home
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Trade, Redbook, Consumer Confidence, Durable goods orders, China, Architecture index, Bank loans
Economic Releases
Aug 28, 2018
Larger than expected: Highlights In some of the early data coming out in this period of trade disputes, the goods deficit of the July trade report totaled a much deeper-than-expected $72.2 billion. Exports of goods fell 1.7 percent in the month to $140.0 billion showing a very steep 6.7 percent month-to-month decline
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New home sales, Existing home sales, Sea containers, Wage tracker chart
Economic Releases
Aug 23, 2018
Heading lower from already depressed levels: Highlights The headline shows a decline but the message from the July new home sales report is nevertheless mostly positive. New home sales slipped 1.7 percent in the month to a 627,000 annualized rate that misses Econoday’s consensus by 22,000 and the Econoday’s low estimate by
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Retail sales, Housing starts, Philly Fed
Economic Releases
Aug 16, 2018
June was revised lower, so best to hold back judgement on July until August is released. Note vehicles were revised quite a bit lower for June, with the initially reported .9 jump suspect in any case: Highlights Demand for autos has cooled but not overall retail sales which rose 0.5 percent in
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Consumer credit, Miles driven, Income revision
Economic Releases
Aug 08, 2018
More Q2 weakness: Highlights Consumers credit came in below expectations, up $10.2 B in June as consumers held back from adding to their credit-card debt and even paid off some of it following a spending spree in the previous month. Revolving credit, which includes credit cards and which posted the biggest increase
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Trade, Employment, ISM, Japan swf
Economic Releases
Aug 03, 2018
Larger than expected which also means q2 GDP will be revised down some: Highlights The nation’s trade deficit proved a little deeper than expected in June,, at $46.3 billion vs Econoday’s consensus for $45.6 billion. After a run of strength going back to February, exports posted a 0.7 percent decline to $213.8
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