| Consensus | Actual | Positive, Negative
Neutral
| Comments |
Monday 3/8/2010 | | | | |
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Tuesday 3/9/2010 | | | | |
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Wednesday 3/10/2010 | | | | |
Treasury Budget
| -$222.0B
| -$220.9B
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Wholesale Inventories
| 0.2%
| -0.2%
| (+)
| Apparently in January we consumed more
than what the wholesalers had expected.
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Crude Inventories |
| 1.43M
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Thursday 3/11/2010 |
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Initial Unemployment Claims | 460,000
| 462,000
| Neutral
| Not improving, but not getting worse either -
initial claims are just "stuck" at a high range.
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Trade Balance
| -$41.0B
| -$37.3B
| Neutral
| Good news: we are importing less oil. Bad news:
our exports decreased, which may mean that the
global rebound is more tepid than originally thought.
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Friday 3/12/2010 |
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Retail Sales
| -0.2%
| 0.3%
| (+)
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Retail Sales (ex-Auto)
| 0.1% | 0.8%
| (+) | Strong retail sales numbers for February in spite
of the lousy weather in the East Coast.
Looks like consumers have decided to get back
to the malls - with unemployment as high as it is,
the jury is still out that this is sustainable.
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U. of Michigan Consumer
Sentiment Survey
| 74.0
| 72.5
| (-) | We may be going back to the malls, but we are
apparently doing so in order to forget why we are
unhappy about our state of affairs. Consumer
sentiment has dipped considerably over the last
month.
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Business Inventories
| 0.1%
| 0.0%
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