The Week Ahead: Your Financial Roadmap for October 9 to October 13, 2006
This will be a slow week in terms of economic indicator releases. The big news for financial markets will come on Wednesday and Thursday with two of the big items from the Fed. Wednesday we'll get a glimpse into the minds that run it all with the release of Federal Open Market Committee minutes from the last meeting and also our weekly peak at the housing market from the Mortgage Banker's Association. Weekly petroleum inventory data, which will move lots of markets with oil markets trending down for the first time in almost two years, will be out on Thursday this week due to the Columbus Day holiday and the Fed will release its Beige Book report. Stock markets will be open Monday, but US bond and foreign exchange markets will observe the holiday.
For those looking for a bit more in depth information on economic indicators, I'm slowly but surely adding to my informational pages here. This week I added a page on the Pending Home Sales Index and a main page on «Where Do Economic Indicators Come From?» That main page will be followed up with some further informational pages on each of the sources and I'll continue adding information pages about individual indicators as well.
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Day / Date |
Monday, October 9, 2006 |
Tuesday, October 10 |
Wednesday, October 11 |
Thursday, October 12 |
Friday, October 13 |
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Indicators |
No indicator releases |
August Wholesale Trade from the Commerce Department: Wholesale Sales Up 1.1%
August Leading and Coincident Indicators for the United Kingdom from the Conference Board: Leading Up 0.2%; Coincident Up 0.1% |
Federal Open Market Committee minutes from the Federal Reserve: Fed Expects Stronger Growth in 2007
August Leading and Coincident Indicators for Korea from the Conference Board: Leading Up 0.9%; Coincident Up 1.1% Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association: Purchase Mortgage Applications Down 5.3% |
August Leading and Coincident Indicators for France from the Conference Board: French Leading Index Unchanged, Coincident Indicators Up 0.3%
August International Trade from the Commerce Department: US International Trade Increased in August 2006 September Beige Book from the Federal Reserve: Beige Book Shows Continued Growth September Federal Budget from the Treasury Department Weekly Petroleum Status report and This Week in Petroleum from the Energy Information Administration: Total Petroleum Inventories Up 0.5 Million Barrels, Heating Oil Inventories Drop Weekly Jobless Claims from the Employment and Training Administration |
September Import Export Price Indexes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Import and Export Prices Drop
September Retail Sales from the Commerce Department: Down 0.4% August Business Inventories from the Commerce Department: Up 0.6% October Consumer Sentiment from The University of Michigan's Consumer Survey Center |
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Earnings Reports |
Nothing of interest | Alcoa Inc [Ticker: AA; Industry: Aluminum ], Genentech Inc [Ticker: DNA; Industry: Biotechnology]; WAL-MART DE MEX ADRV [Ticker: WMMVY.PK ] | Monsanto Co [Ticker: MON; Industry: Agricultural Chemicals ] | MGIC Investment Corp [Ticker: MTG; Industry: Surety & Title Insurance ]; Bank of the Ozarks Inc [Ticker: OZRK; Industry: Regional - Southeast Banks ] | General Electric Co [Ticker: GE; Industry: Industrial Electrical Equipment ] |
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Treasury Auctions and Announcements |
Federal holiday |
11 AM Eastern: 4- Week T-Bill and 10-Year TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) Announcements
1 PM Eastern 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bill Auctions |
1 PM Eastern: 4-Week T-Bill Auction |
11 AM Eastern 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bill Auctions
1 PM Eastern 10-Year TIPS Auction (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) |
No auctions or announcements |
Each of the upcoming financial items with the exception of Treasury auctions and announcements will be linked in this post as they become available. Housing market indicators will be featured on RealNews under the Housing Market category. Job market indicators wil be featured at Jobs Calling under the Job Market category. International indicators will be featured at Growing Global under the Economic Indicators category. General US economic indicators will be featured on this site, Financial Options, under Economic Indicators category.
The earnings releases listed are companies I've chosen because of their industries, because of market capitalization (the size of the company), because they have local plants in my area or for various other reasons of general interest. Please do not take these as a “recommendation†of any sort. That I list them here simply means that I think the results may be interesting for any number of reason - I may occasionally even choose companies where I expect negative results.
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