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Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Thursday: Trade Deficit, Unemployment Claims

by Calculated Risk on 8/03/2022 09:17:00 PM

Mortgage Rates Wednesday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Trade Balance report for June from the Census Bureau. The consensus is the trade deficit to be $80.1 billion.  The U.S. trade deficit was at $85.5 Billion the previous month.

• Also at 8:30 AM, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for 265 thousand up from 256 thousand last week.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):


Hospitalizations have almost quadrupled from the lows in April 2022.

COVID Metrics
 NowWeek
Ago
Goal
New Cases per Day2119,034126,812≤5,0001
Hospitalized237,13237,286≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2387396≤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.

COVID-19 Positive Tests per DayClick on graph for larger image.

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.