by Calculated Risk on 5/13/2020 08:42:00 PM

Note: the covid19 tracking project suspects that at least one state is including antibody tests in their daily report. If so, the positive rate of virus tests might be higher than reported.

There are still a large number of layoffs every week.

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for a 2.500 million initial claims, down from 3.169 million the previous week.