- Import Price Index MoM (Released 8:30 EST)
- Import Price Index YoY (Released 8:30 EST)
- Import Price Index ALLX 1 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Import Price Index ALLX 2 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Advance Retail Sales (Released 8:30 EST)
- Advance Retail Sales YoY (Released 8:30 EST)
- Advance Retail Sales TABLE 1 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Advance Retail Sales TABLE 2 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Advance Retail Sales TABLE 3 (Released 8:30 EST)
- Retail Sales Less Autos (Released 8:30 EST)
- Business Inventories MoM (Released 10:00 EST)
- Business Inventories YoY (Released 10:00 EST)

Import Price Index MoM (Oct)
| Survey | -4.4% |
| Actual | -4.7% |
| Prior | -3.0% |
| Revised | -3.3% |
Decelerating rapidly!

Import Price Index YoY (Oct)
| Survey | 8.2% |
| Actual | 6.7% |
| Prior | 14.5% |
| Revised | 13.6% |
Decelerating rapidly!
Karim writes:
Price pressures continue to fall sharply:
- Import prices -4.7% m/m; -0.9% m/m ex-petroleum; yr/yr slows from 13.6% to 6.7%
- Prices of industrial supplies -25.1% over past 3mths
- Import prices from China -0.3% over past 2mths

Import Price Index ALLX 1 (Oct)

Import Price Index ALLX 2 (Oct)

Advance Retail Sales (Oct)
| Survey | -2.1% |
| Actual | -2.8% |
| Prior | -1.2% |
| Revised | -1.3% |
This is a severe dropoff!
Karim writes:
Largest ever monthly drop in U.S. retail sales:
- -2.8% m/m headline, -2.2% ex-autos, -1.5% ex-gas (prior mth headline revised from -1.2% to -1.3%)
- 3mth annualized rate of change in headline now at -10.9%; yr/yr change -3.3%

Advance Retail Sales YoY (Oct)
| Survey | n/a |
| Actual | -4.1% |
| Prior | -1.1% |
| Revised | n/a |
Looks very bad!

Advance Retail Sales TABLE 1 (Oct)

Advance Retail Sales TABLE 2 (Oct)

Advance Retail Sales TABLE 3 (Oct)

Retail Sales Less Autos (Oct)
| Survey | -1.2% |
| Actual | -2.2% |
| Prior | -0.6% |
| Revised | -0.5% |
Same!

Business Inventories MoM (Sep)
| Survey | -0.1% |
| Actual | -0.2% |
| Prior | 0.3% |
| Revised | 0.2% |
Interesting drop- not recession like at all.

Business Inventories YoY (Sep)
| Survey | n/a |
| Actual | 5.5% |
| Prior | 6.3% |
| Revised | n/a |
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