Economic Data

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Aug 18, 2009. 8:30

The Producer Price Index for July that made a month-over-month decrease of 0.9%. That was short of the 0.3% decline that had been expected and was down from the 1.8% increase registered in June. Excluding food and energy, which are often more volatile, producer prices decreased 0.1%. They were expected to increase 0.1% following the 0.5% increase in June. Separately, housing starts hit an annualized rate of 581,000 in July. That was short of the annualized rate of 599,000 that had been widely expected. Housing starts for June were revised modestly higher to reflect an annualized rate of 587,000. Meanwhile, building permits for July hit a rate of 560,000. They were expected to come in at a rate of 577,000 after the previous month's figure was revised upward to 570,000.

From briefing.com

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Not good.

Cooker

Aug 20, 2009

Initial claims for the week ending August 15 totaled 576,000, which was more severe than the 550,000 claims that were widely expected. The latest tally was also above the upwardly revised 561,000 claims that were registered in the previous week. Meanwhile, continuing claims came in at 6.24 million, which is slightly more than the near 6.22 million claims that economists had come to expect. The latest tally is relatively unchanged from the previous week's upwardly revised 6.24 million claims.

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Cobra

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Aug. 20, 2009

At 576,000, initial claims are up for the second week in a row, while continuing claims remain near historically high levels even as the unemployed begin to lose their benefits. The Philadelphia Fed Index for August and second quarter mortgage delinquency data are due at 10:00 AM ET.

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Aug. 20, 2009

The leading indicators report showed a 0.6% increase. Leading indicators were expected to show a 0.7% increase following the 0.7% increase that was initially registered in June. June's data was recently revised to show a 0.8% increase.

Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Fed Index came in at 4.2, which is considerably better than the -0.2 that was expected and up sharply from the -7.5 that was registered in July.

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Aug. 21, 2009

According to the July existing home sales report, annualized sales hit 5.2 million. Economists, on average, were expecting a sales rate closer to 5.0 million following the rate of 4.9 million that was originally registered in June. Based on the data, July existing home sales increased 7.2% month-over-month, which was better than the 2.1% monthly increase that was widely expected.