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Today's Economic Events: CPI, Jobless Claims, Housing Starts, Philly Fed
CPI, housing starts, jobless claims - last week will almost certainly to be revised to over 400k for the first time in months, and the Philadelphia Fed index.
8:30: Consumer Price Index (December): Low core inflation. Goldman forecasts that the overall CPI increased by 0.2% (month-over-month) in December, up from a flat reading in November. Yesterday’s weaker-than-expected PPI may suggest downside risk to headline CPI forecast. Goldman forecasts that the core CPI increased by just 0.10%, down from +0.17% last month. Relative to November the firm expects lower inflation in apparel prices, partially offset by an acceleration in rent inflation (including owners’ equivalent rent).
CPI: GS: +0.18%; Consensus: +0.1%; Last -0.02 %.
Core CPI: GS: +0.10%; Consensus: +0.1%; last +0.17%. MAP: 4
8:30: Housing starts (December): Improving. Several housing-related indicators have shown encouraging signs of improvement in recent months. Most recently, the NAHB reported yesterday that its measure of homebuilder confidence increased to a post-recession high of 25 in January. The consensus forecasts a small decline in housing starts, which likely reflects an expected payback in multi-family building after a 25% surge in November.
Starts: GS: +5.0%; Consensus: -0.7%; Last +9.3%. MAP: 1
Permits: Consensus: -0.2%; Last +5.6%.
8:30: Jobless claims (Week of January 14): Declining again? Initial jobless claims have backed up in recent weeks, rising to 399k last week from a low of 366k in mid-December. Today’s and next week’s claims reports will clarify if the job market is in fact slowing.
Consensus: 384,000; Last: 399,000.
10:00: Philadelphia Fed index (January): Unchanged. Goldman forecasts that the Philadelphia Fed’s business activity index was about unchanged at +7.0 in January. The improvement in the Empire State index for January—reported earlier this week—may suggest upside risks to this forecast.
GS: +7.0; Consensus: +10.3; Last +6.8.
Source: Goldman
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this is easy to front run...
manipulated data as to support the coordinated (see: regulators, govt, sell-side, MSM, CB's) foundational plan to sucker retail back into the money harvesting meat grinder.
Today's script is already written.
Massive futures contract purchases by the Fed, gap up about 10 handles, then violently defend against any selling all day long.
I would think this would get old. But, evidently not.
I predict the core CPI to be lollipop dragons.
If i get that one right then Housing starts will be a pixie dancing on the head of a pin.
We love bullshit numbers! Hey, give these clowns some credit, it's not easy juggling jello!
US Core CPI 0.1%
(energy and food are non core of course as real people dont use them)
The advance number of actual initial claims under state programs, unadjusted, totaled 521,613 in the week ending January 14, a decrease of 124,606 from the previous week. There were 549,688 initial claims in the comparable week in 2011.
The advance unadjusted insured unemployment rate was 3.2 percent during the week ending January 7, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week's unrevised rate. The advance unadjusted number for persons claiming UI benefits in state programs totaled 4,076,626, a decrease of 84,257 from the preceding week. A year earlier, the rate was 3.7 percent and the volume was 4,652,805.
The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs for the week ending December 31 was 7,826,665, an increase of 493,566 from the previous week.
Wow look at jobless claims. Where is David Tepper the Obama reelection put is in.
Wow, just fantabulous numbers, let the bulls charge!
At least until the next revision...
Actual numbers leave me with "blah" but at CNN via seasonal adjustment "magic" things are really better.
Breaking News
Jobless claims plunge to 352,000 in latest week, lowest in nearly 4 years. Consumer prices rise at 3% annual rate after flat December
CPI flat, housing starts worse than expected, jobless claims better than expected. Call it a draw?
Why the fuck would I care about the psychological state of unemployed home builders?
Do I really need to know if they feel the need to pretend things are improving, when asked?
The great contrarian sees S&P kick off the Euro endgame with downgrades and says quite rationally, "short this pig".
WTF is wrong with me?
Sorry, the jobless claims fell by less than any 2nd week since 2009. But the media will report a wonderful jobless claims number! Look at the charts.
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/initial-jobless-claims-fall-more-than-expected-housing-starts-fall-4-1/
Nice link - thanks
From MarketWatch:
About 7.83 million people received some kind of state or federal benefit in the week ended Dec. 31, up 493,566 from the prior week.
That sums things up nicely.