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| Economic Releases - Week of 2/8/2010
| Consensus | Actual | Positive, Negative
Neutral
| Comments | Monday 2/8/2010 | | | | |
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| | | Tuesday 2/9/2010 | | | | | Wholesale Inventories
| 0.6%
| -0.8%
| (-)
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| Wednesday 2/10/2010 |
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| Trade Balance
| -$35.0 B
| -$40.2B
| (-)
| Trade is making a comeback in the world
stage; unfortunately, we increased our rate
of imports at a higher clip than our trading
partners increased their appetite for our
products.
| Thursday 2/11/2010 |
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| Initial Unemployment Claims | 465,000
| 440,000
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| Still range-bound, but at least down to the lower
portion of the range. Not a particularly good
indication of strong job growth to follow, but
continuing claims continue to improve which
is positive.
| Friday 2/12/2010 |
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| Retail Sales
| 0.3%
| 0.5%
| (+) | | Retail Sales (ex-Auto)
| 0.3%
| 0.6% | (+)
| | Crude Inventories
| | 2.42M
| | | Business Inventories
| 0.2%
| -0.2%
| (-)
| | University of Michigan Consumer
Sentiment Survey
| 75.0 | 73.7
| (-)
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