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US Economics Week Ahead: Retail Sales & The Start of Earnings

With employment out of the way—for now—onto earnings; Alcoa is scheduled to kick of the 4Q09 earnings season with its report on Monday.  Earnings might be stealing most of the show this week, but don’t count out economic data with the release of a critically important retail sales release on Thursday and a torrent of […]

US Economics Week Ahead: Black or Red Friday?

This week is relatively quiet on the economic front, following last week’s tsunami of data culminating in a much better than anticipated employment release.  This week’s theme is the consumers, who have the potential to stymie last week’s positive sentiment depending on sales strength during the Black Friday shopping weekend.  The week’s primary release will […]

US Economics Week Ahead: Retail Sales will set the Pace

The last full week in November brings with it its fair share of economic data, Fed talk, and a few important earnings stragglers.  The general themes of the week will be housing, manufacturing, inflation, and the consumer.  On the economic front, October’s retail sales—released on Monday—should steal the show, followed up by October’s industrial production […]

US Economics Week Ahead: A Shortened Week with a Big Punch

Despite a holiday on Monday, we have a busy week on all fronts, combing a deep economic calendar with a flurry of critical earnings releases.  On the economics front the two most important indicators are retail sales on Wednesday and CPI on Thursday.  September’s retail sales could face some negative pressure on the back of […]

Business Inventories Fall -1.0%

July’s business inventories fell -1.0% to US$1.33bn, versus a Bloomberg consensus forecast of -0.9%. On a year over year basis the index has fallen -11.8%.  June’s release was revised down to -1.4% from -1.1%.  In July the inventory to sales ratio decline to 1.36, and is its lowest level since October 2008.  It is widely […]

US Week Ahead: Steady As She Goes

On the economics front this week we have a rather light calendar compared to last week, but not without some significant releases.  The weeks starts out slow with no noteworthy releases on Monday, followed up by productivity and costs on Tuesday. The week closes with the hard hitting trifecta of July’s CPI, June’s Industrial Production, […]