Economic Calendar: November 13-November 17

Time (EST) Indicator (click for definition) Source (click for press release) Actual Forecast Previous (revised) Previous (original) Monday, November 13 2 p.m. Federal budget for October FY '07 Treasury Department -$49.3B -$49.0B -$47.3B -$47.4B (October FY '06) Tuesday, November 14 8:30 a.m. Producer Price Index for October Labor Department -1.6% -0.5% -1.3% -1.3% Ex- food and energy -0.9% +0.1% +0.6% +0.6% 8:30 a.m. Retail sales for October Census Bureau -0.2% -0.4% -0.8% -0.4% Ex-autos -0.4% -0.3% -1.2% -0.5% 9 a.m. ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot for the week ended November 11 International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS -0.8% n.a. +1.0% +1.0% 9 a.m. Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended November 11, vs. October Redbook Research +3.3% n.a. +0.3% +0.3%* 10 a.m. Business inventories for September Census Bureau +0.4% +0.5% +0.6% +0.6% Wednesday, November 15 9 a.m. Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended November 10 -- Market Composite Index Mortgage Bankers Association 647.5 n.a. 620/9 620.9 Purchase Index 412.9 n.a. 402.2 402.2 9 a.m. Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended November 12 ABC News and Washington Post +1 n.a. -3 -3 2 p.m. Federal Open Market Committee minutes Federal Reserve The Fed releases the minutes of its monetary policymaking committee's October 25th meeting. Thursday, November 16 8:30 a.m. Consumer Price Index for October Labor Department -0.5% -0.3% -0.5% -0.5% Ex- food and energy +0.1% +0.2% +0.2% +0.2% 8:30 a.m. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended November 11 Labor Department +308,000 +310,000 +310,000 +308,000 Four-week average +314,000 n.a. +312,000 +311,000 9:15 a.m. Industrial production for October Federal Reserve +0.2% +0.3% -0.6% -0.6% Capacity utilization 82.2% 82.0% 82.1% 81.9% 12 p.m. Philadelphia Fed Index for November Philadelphia Fed 5.1 5.0 -0.7 -0.7 Friday, November 17 8:30 a.m. Housing starts for October Census Bureau 1.486M 1.680M 1.740M 1.772M Building permits 1.535M 1.625M 1.638M 1.619M 10:30 a.m. Weekly Leading Index for the week ended November 10 Economic Cycle Research Institute +1.2% n.a. +0.6% +0.3%

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