Economic Calendar: April 16-April 20

Time (EST) Indicator (click for definition) Source (click for press release) Actual Forecast Previous (revised) Previous (original) Monday, April 16 8:30 a.m. Retail sales for March Census Bureau +0.7% +0.4% +0.5% +0.1% Ex-autos +0.8% +0.7% +0.4% -0.1% 10 a.m. Business inventories for February Census Bureau +0.3% +0.2% +0.2% +0.2% Tuesday, April 17 8:30 a.m. Consumer Price Index for March Labor Department +0.6% +0.6% +0.4% +0.4% Ex- food and energy +0.1% +0.2% +0.2% +0.2% 8:30 a.m. Housing starts for March Census Bureau 1.518M 1.500M 1.506M 1.525M Building permits 1.544M 1.515M 1.532M 1.532M 9 a.m. ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot for the week ended April 14 International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS -0.6% n.a. +0.9% +0.9% 9 a.m. Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended April 14, vs. March Redbook Research +0.2% n.a. -4.0% -4.0%* 9:15 a.m. Industrial production for March Federal Reserve -0.2% 0.0% +0.8% +1.0% Capacity utilization 81.4% 81.9% 82.0% 82.0% Wednesday, April 18 9 a.m. Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended April 13 -- Market Composite Index Mortgage Bankers Association 630.6 n.a. 646.6 646.6 Purchase Index 396.5 n.a. 413.8 413.8 9 a.m. Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended April 15 ABC News and Washington Post -5 n.a. -7 -7 Thursday, April 19 8:30 a.m. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended April 14 Labor Department +339,000 +320,000 +343,000 +342,000 Four-week average +329,000 n.a. +324,000 +323,000 10 a.m. Leading economic indicators for March Conference Board +0.1% +0.1% -0.6% -0.5% 12 p.m. Philadelphia Fed Index for April Philadelphia Fed 0.2 3.0 0.2 0.2 2:30 p.m. TIPS auction announcement Bureau of the Public Debt The Treasury announces the size of its next auction of 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, next Thursday. Friday, April 20 10:30 a.m. Weekly Leading Index for the week ended April 13 Economic Cycle Research Institute +3.6% n.a. +3.6% +3.8%

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