Jobless Claims

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Weekly release of four week moving average compilation of claims by first time filers, issued by the U.S. Department of Labor

Housing Starts

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Data referring to the number of privately owned new homes (technically housing units) on which construction has been started in a given period

Philadelphia Fed Survey

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report of monthly survey of manufacturers in the Third Federal Reserve District. Participants indicate the direction of change in overall business activity and in the various measures of activity at their plants: employment, working hours, new and unfilled orders, shipments, inventories, delivery times, prices paid, and prices received

Motor Vehicle Sales

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Unit sales of newly produced domestic cars and light duty trucks. Includes vans and SUVs

ISM Manufacturing Index

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Release of national manufacturing condition composite index. This report is considered by many economists to be the most reliable near-term economic barometer available. It is reviewed regularly by top government agencies and economic and business leaders for its timely, accurate information regarding the manufacturing sector of the economy

Challenger Job-Cut Report

Time: 07:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Non-seasonally adjusted report on the number of announced corporate layoffs

ADP Employment Report

Time: 08:15 am

Frequency:

Description: Report constructed from ADP's data on payrolls following a procedure similar to that used by the BLS to process its monthly survey of Current Employment Statistics into the "official" estimates of establishment employment

Monster Employment Index

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Monthly analysis of U.S. online job demand conducted by Monster Worldwide, Inc. Non-seasonally adjusted review of employer job opportunities culled from a large, representative selection of corporate career sites and job boards (over 1000 web sites) nationwide

Productivity and Costs

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Hours data for the labor productivity and cost measures include hours for all persons working in the sector—wage and salary workers, the self-employed and unpaid family workers. Business sector output is a chain-type, current-weighted index constructed from the following outputs: general government, nonprofit institutions, and private households (including owner-occupied housing)

Employment Situation

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Release of this conglomerate of indicators including unemployment rate, nonfarm payroll, average non-farm work-week, and average hourly earnings

International Trade

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Data revealing the levels of imports and exports of tangible goods and services

Retail Sales

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Data for total receipts at stores that sell durable or nondurable goods

Import and Export Prices

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency:

Description: Report of the prices of foreign goods purchased in the United States, and conversely, the prices of U.S. made goods sold abroad

Housing Market Index

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report by the National Association of Homebuilders gauging market conditions based on new home sales, prospective sales, and new home interest

Leading Indicators

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency:

Description: Calculation by The Conference Board which forms the composite index from the values of ten key economic variables

State Street Investor Confidence Index

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Measure of the attitude of investors to risk. Uses the principles of modern financial theory to model the underlying behavior of global investors. Unlike other survey-based confidence measures that focus on expectations for future prices and returns, the Index provides a quantitative measure of the actual and changing levels of risk contained in investment portfolios representing about 15% of the world's tradable assets

Consumer Sentiment

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Assessment of consumer attitudes on the business climate, personal finance, and spending. Accomplished by telephone polling a random sampling of households by the University of Michigan

S&P Case-Shiller HPI

Time: 09:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: U.S. National Home Price Index is a composite of price indices calculated from data on repeat sales of single family homes for the nine U.S. Census divisions, figured monthly using a three-month moving average. Options and futures based on Case-Shiller index are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Construction Spending

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report of the dollar value of new construction activity on residential, non-residential, and public projects

Pending Home Sales Index

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Numbers of contracted existing home sales, which have not yet entered a "closed" status. Does not include new home sales

Factory Orders

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Monthly report measuring dollar volume of new orders, shipments, unfilled orders, and inventories reported by domestic manufacturers. Figures within the Factory Orders report are reported in the billions of dollars and also in a percent change from the previous month. Generally the Factory Orders is not widely watched compared to other economic releases. The Advance Release on Durable Goods which precedes the Factory Orders report by one week garners more attention, given that durable goods make up more than half of factory orders

ISM Non-Mfg Survey

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Non-manufacturing sector report which includes agriculture, mining, construction, transportation, communications, wholesale trade and retail trade. Based on business activity, new orders, employment, and supplier deliveries

Chain Store Sales

Time: 11:45 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Monthly sales snapshot. Currently based on ICSC-Goldman Sachs weekly index constructed using sales-weighted geometric average growth rates to preserve long-term consistency. Statistically benchmarked to a broad-based monthly retail industry sales aggregate from department, chain, discount, and apparel stores

Consumer Credit

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report of the dollar value of outstanding consumer installment credit

Wholesale Trade

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report regarding the dollar value of sales made and inventories held by merchant wholesalers

GDP (Preliminary)

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency:

Description: preliminary release of tri-quarterly report. GDP reports are broken down into three announcements: advance, preliminary, and final. Defined as the total cost of all finished goods and services produced within the country in a year. GDP = consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports - imports)

FHFA House Price Index

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency:

Description: US Federal Housing Finance Agency quarterly broad measure of the movement of single-family house prices. The HPI is a weighted, repeat-sales index. This information is obtained by reviewing repeat mortgage transactions on single-family properties whose mortgages have been purchased or securitized by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac since January 1975. Since the HPI index only includes houses with mortgages within the conforming amount limits, the index has a natural cap and does not account for 'jumbo' mortgages.

Existing Home Sales

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report of this demand-side indicator which includes total sales, the inventory of homes for sale, and the median price

New Home Sales

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Sales of newly constructed residences. Unlike "Housing Starts", New Home Sales excludes any new houses that were not built for immediate sale

Durable Goods Orders

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Measure of the dollar value of orders, shipments, and unfilled orders of durable goods (goods whose intended lifespan is three years or more)

Consumer Confidence

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) report. Defined as the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that consumers are expressing through their activities of savings and spending. Issued monthly by The Conference Board and is based on 5,000 households

Treasury STRIPS

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report of Treasury Department "Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities"

Treasury Budget

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Monthly accounting of the financial activities of the federal government and off-budget federal entities in accordance with the Budget of the U.S. Government. Presents a summary of receipts and outlays, surplus or deficit, and means of financing on a modified cash basis. Data provided by federal entities, disbursing officers, and Federal Reserve Banks

Consumer Sentiment (p)

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Preliminary assessment of consumer attitudes on the business climate, personal finance, and spending. Accomplished by telephone polling a random sampling of households by the University of Michigan

Empire State Mfg Survey

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Survey of manufacturing executives across New York State regarding a variety of indicators. Conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Producer Price Index

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Data measuring average changes in prices received by domestic producers for goods, supplies, materials, and components

Treasury International Capital

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency:

Description: Report detailing equity, bond, treasury securities, and other financial instruments into and out of the U.S.

Industrial Production

Time: 09:15 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Report measuring changes in output for the industrial sector of the economy. Includes manufacturing, mining, and utilities

Consumer Price Index

Time: 08:30 am

Frequency: Monthly

Description: Measure of the average price of consumer goods and services purchased by households. The percent change in the CPI is a measure of inflation. The CPI can be used to index (i.e., adjust for the effects of inflation) wages, salaries, pensions, or regulated or contracted prices. The CPI is one of the most closely watched national economic statistics

FOMC Minutes

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency:

Description: Bi-quarterly announcement. The FOMC holds eight regularly scheduled meetings during the year and other meetings as needed. The minutes of regularly scheduled meetings are released three weeks after the date of the policy decision

U.S. Holiday: Presidents Day

Time: 01:00 am

Frequency:

Description: SIFMA Recommends Full Market Close for Trading of US Dollar-Denominated Fixed-Income Securities in the US. SIFMA's recommended full market closes are recommendations only; each member firm should decide for itself whether its fixed-income departments remain open for trading. All SIFMA recommendations are subject to change due to market conditions. This week's reports and events may have been rescheduled. Please see individual website links for further information

EIA Petroleum Status Report

Time: 10:30 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Energy Information Administration weekly report of data on petroleum inventories in the United States

Redbook

Time: 09:00 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Weekly measure of sales at chain stores, discounters, and department stores

MBA Purchase Applications

Time: 07:00 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Mortgage Bankers' Association compilation of mortgage loan indexes. The survey covers approximately 50 percent of all U.S. retail residential mortgage applications. Respondents include mortgage bankers, commercial banks and thrifts. Comprised of Market Composite Index (loan app volume), Refinance Index, Purchase Index, and the Government Purchase Index.

EIA Natural Gas Report

Time: 10:30 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Energy Information Administration weekly report of data on natural gas inventories in the United States

Federal Reserve Bank Balance Sheet

Time: 04:30 pm

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Each week, the "Federal Reserve" publishes its balance sheet, typically on Thursday afternoon around 4:30 p.m. The balance sheet is included in the Federal Reserve's H.4.1 statistical release, "Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks"

Money Supply

Time: 04:30 pm

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Thursday release of M2 figures. M2: Physical currency circulating in the economy + demand deposits (i.e. checking account deposits) + time deposits (i.e. a money deposit that cannot be withdrawn for a certain "term"), savings deposits, and non-institutional money-market funds. Economists use M2 when looking to quantify the amount of money in circulation and trying to explain different economic monetary conditions. M2 is a key economic indicator used to forecast inflation

Business Inventories

Time: 10:00 am

Frequency:

Description: Level of inventories held by wholesalers, manufacturers, and retailers

NFIB Small Business Optimism Report

Time: 07:30 am

Frequency:

Description: The National Federation of Independent Businesses Research Foundation has collected small business economic trends data with quarterly surveys since 1974 and monthly surveys since 1986. Survey respondents are drawn from NFIB's membership. The report is released on the second Tuesday of each month

ICSC Store Sales

Time: 07:45 am

Frequency: Weekly

Description: Weekly report of store sales at major retail chains, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers