by Calculated Risk on 3/08/2025 08:11:00 AM

The key report this week is February CPI.

----- Monday, March 10th -----
No major economic releases scheduled.

----- Tuesday, March 11th -----
6:00 AM ET: NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for February.

10:00 AM ET: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for January from the BLS.

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

Jobs openings decreased in December to 7.60 million from 8.12 million in November.

----- Wednesday, March 12th -----
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

8:30 AM: The Consumer Price Index for February from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.3% increase in core CPI.  The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% Year-over-year (YoY), and core CPI to be up 3.2% YoY.

----- Thursday, March 13th -----
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 225 initial claims up from 221 thousand last week.

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

12:00 PM: Q4 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States from the Federal Reserve.

----- Friday, March 14th -----
10:00 AM: University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index (Preliminary for March).