Financial Roadmap for March 5 to 9, 2007
This will be a busy week with several items worth watching. The biggest will be the release of the Beige Book by the Federal Reserve, which examines a wealth of economic indicators as reported by each of the twelve Federal Reserve districts. Several labor market market indicators come out this week including the monthly employment situation report and two indexes of online help-wanted ads.
The Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors will be worth a close look after the massively mixed signals sent by the reports on new and existing home sales last week. Even with the added input, making any sense of the housing market will require looking at each region and each sector (condo, coop, single family) within each region seperately.
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Day / Date |
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Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Indicators |
February US Help Wanted Online Data from the Conference Board: Online Job Ads Up 22% in February February Non-manufacturing Report on Business from the Institute for Supply Management: |
4th Quarter Productivity from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Productivity Growth Revised Downward January Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors: January Factory Orders from the Commerce Department: Monetary Policy Announcement from the Bank of Canada |
February National Employment Report from ADP: Small and Medium Businesses Creating Most New Jobs January Consumer Credit from the Federal Reserve: Beige Book from the Federal Reserve: Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association: Weekly Petroleum Data Summary and This Week in Petroleum from the Energy Information Administration: |
January Leading and Coincident Indicators for Japan from the Conference Board
February Monster Employment Index from Monster.com: Monetary Policy Announcements from the European Central Bank and Bank of England Weekly Jobless Claims from the Employment and Training Administration |
March CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index from RBC: Down 10.4% February Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Unemployment Unchanged at 4.5% January International Trade from the Commerce Department: January Wholesale Trade from the Commerce Department: |
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Earnings Reports |
MAIDENFORM BRANDS [Ticker: MFB ; Industry: Textile - Apparel Clothing ] | Payless Shoesource Inc [Ticker: PSS ; Industry: Apparel Stores ] | WESTWOOD ONE INC [Ticker: WON ; Industry: General Entertainment ] | Costco Wholesale Corp [Ticker: COST ; Industry: Discount, Variety Stores ] | BIG LOTS INC [Ticker: BIG ; Industry: Discount, Variety Stores ] |
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Treasury Auctions and Announcements |
11 AM: 4-Week T-Bill Announcement
1 PM: 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bill Auctions |
1 PM: 4-Week T-Bill Auction
3 PM: Treasury STRIPS |
No auctions or announcements | 11 AM: 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bill and 10-Year Note Announcements | None |
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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