by Calculated Risk on 8/25/2022 09:08:00 PM

Friday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Personal Income and Outlays, July 2022. The consensus is for a 0.6% increase in personal income, and for a 0.4% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.3%.  PCE prices are expected to be up 6.4% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.7% YoY.

• At 10:00 AM, Speech, Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Economic Outlook, At the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium

• Also at 10:00 AM, University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (Final for August). The consensus is for a reading of 55.1.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):

COVID Metrics
	Now	Week Ago	Goal
New Cases per Day2	90,675	97,183	≤5,0001
Hospitalized2	32,903	35,314	≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2	389	441	≤501
1my goals to stop daily posts, 27-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met.

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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.

Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.