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US Economics Week Ahead: Markets Try to Find Traction in an Array of Data

There’s no doubt this week’s most important release will be Friday’s employment report, which is expected to show a decline in payrolls of -170K with an unemployment rate of 9.8%.  This week could prove critical as markets try to regain some traction after several negative surprises last week, including lower than anticipated existing home sales […]

US Economic Week Ahead: Big Ben & His Men (& Women)…

Undoubtedly the most important item on this week’s calendar will be Wednesday’s FOMC announcement, which is highly unlikely to show any changes to the current policy stance.  But, as always, the market will be paying close attention the wording of the FOMC’s statement, which turned slightly more constructive last month indicating that financial markets have […]

US Economics Week Ahead: The Calm Before The Storm

With the shortened week comes a rather light economic calendar, with the most significant release likely being the Fed’s Beige Book on Wednesday, followed by consumer sentiment on Friday.  This week’s lull will come to an abrupt end next week with the release of the retails sales and Industrial production data, among others.  In addition […]

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales– Shows Growth, But Redbook Says Otherwise

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales demonstrated a week over week increase of 0.1% and a year over year increase of 0.5% during the holiday week. This likely won’t have much effect on today’s trading. But, the Redbook, which was released at 8:55AM showed a 4.2% y/y decline in same store sales, which continues to indicate the retail […]