Economic Calendar: July 18-July 22

Time (EST) Indicator (click for definition) Source (click for press release) Actual Forecast Previous (revised) Previous (original) Monday, July 18 No releases. Tuesday, July 19 8:30 a.m. Housing starts for June Census Bureau 2.004M 2.050M 2.004M 2.009M Building permits 2.111M 2.085M 2.050M 2.062M 9 a.m. ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot for the week ended July 16 International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS +0.3% n.a. +0.1% +0.1% 9 a.m. Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended July 16, vs. June Redbook Research +4.2% n.a. +0.2% +0.2%* Wednesday, July 20 7 a.m. Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended July 15 -- Market Composite Index Mortgage Bankers Association 801.1 n.a. 791.9 791.9 Purchase Index 488.7 n.a. 489.0 489.0 10 a.m. Greenspan speech Federal Reserve The Fed chairman speaks to House Committee on Financial Services on the topic: Semiannual Report on Monetary Policy 11 a.m. Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended July 17 ABC News and Washington Post -9 n.a. -11 -11 Thursday, July 21 8:30 a.m. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended July 16 Labor Department +303,000 +326,000 +337,000 +336,000 Four-week average +318,000 n.a. +321,000 +321,000 10 a.m. Leading economic indicators for June Conference Board +0.9% +0.5% 0.0% -0.5% 10 a.m. Greenspan speech Federal Reserve The Fed chairman speaks to Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs on the topic: Semiannual Report on Monetary Policy 12 p.m. Philadelphia Fed Index for July Philadelphia Fed 9.6 10.0 -2.2 -2.2 2 p.m. Federal Open Market Committee minutes Federal Reserve The Fed releases the minutes of its monetary policymaking committee's June 30 meeting. 2:30 p.m. TIPS auction announcement Bureau of the Public Debt The Treasury announces the size of its next auction of 20-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, next Tuesday. Friday, July 22 10:30 a.m. Weekly Leading Index for the week ended July 15 Economic Cycle Research Institute +1.6% n.a. +1.1% +1.2%

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