by Calculated Risk on 4/04/2020 08:11:00 AM

The key report this week is the March CPI.

The FOMC minutes on Wednesday might be interesting.

----- Monday, Apr 6th -----
No major economic releases scheduled.

----- Tuesday, Apr 7th -----
10:00 AM ET: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for February from the BLS.

This graph shows job openings (yellow line), hires (purple), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.

Jobs openings increased in January to 6.963 million from 6.552 million in December.

The number of job openings (yellow) were down 7% year-over-year, and Quits were up slightly year-over-year.

10:00 AM: Corelogic House Price index for February.

3:00 PM: Consumer Credit from the Federal Reserve.

----- Wednesday, Apr 8th -----
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

2:00 PM: FOMC Minutes, Meeting of March 15, 2020

----- Thursday, Apr 9th -----
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for a 5.000 million initial claims, down from 6.648 million the previous week.

8:30 AM: The Producer Price Index for March from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.3% decrease in PPI, and a 0.1% increase in core PPI.

10:00 AM: University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (Preliminary for April).

----- Friday, Apr 10th -----
8:30 AM: The Consumer Price Index for March from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% decrease in CPI, and a 0.1% increase in core CPI.

The NYSE and the NASDAQ will be closed for Good Friday.