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Saturday, September 22, 2018
Schedule for Week of September 23, 2018
The key reports this week are August New Home sales, and the third estimate of Q2 GDP.
Other key indicators include Personal Income and Outlays for August and Case-Shiller house prices for July.
For manufacturing, the Dallas, Richmond, and Kansas City Fed manufacturing surveys will be released this week.
Also, the FOMC meets this week, and is expected to raise the Fed Funds rate 25bps.
8:30 AM ET: Chicago Fed National Activity Index for August. This is a composite index of other data.
10:30 AM: Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for September.
9:00 AM ET: S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index for July.This graph shows the nominal seasonally adjusted National Index, Composite 10 and Composite 20 indexes through the most recent report (the Composite 20 was started in January 2000).
The consensus is for a 6.3% year-over-year increase in the Comp 20 index for July.
9:00 AM: FHFA House Price Index for July 2018. This was originally a GSE only repeat sales, however there is also an expanded index.
10:00 AM ET: Richmond Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for September.
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
10:00 AM: New Home Sales for August from the Census Bureau. This graph shows New Home Sales since 1963. The dashed line is the sales rate for last month.
The consensus is for 630 thousand SAAR, up from 627 thousand in July.
2:00 PM: FOMC Meeting Announcement. The FOMC is expected to increase the Fed Funds rate 25 bps at this meeting.
2:00 PM: FOMC Forecasts This will include the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participants' projections of the appropriate target federal funds rate along with the quarterly economic projections.
2:30 PM: Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC announcement.
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 210 thousand initial claims, up from 201 thousand the previous week.
8:30 AM: Durable Goods Orders for August from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for a 2.0% increase in durable goods orders.
8:30 AM: Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2018 (Third estimate). The consensus is that real GDP increased 4.3% annualized in Q2, up from the second estimate of 4.2%.
Early: Reis Q3 2018 Apartment Survey of rents and vacancy rates.
10:00 AM: Pending Home Sales Index for August. The consensus is 0.2% increase in the index.
11:00 AM: the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey for September. This is the last of the regional surveys for September.
8:30 AM: Personal Income and Outlays for August. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.3% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.1%.
9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for September. The consensus is for a reading of 62.0, down from 63.6 in August.
10:00 AM: University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (Final for September). The consensus is for a reading of 100.8.
