Economic Calendar: August 27-August 31

Time (EST) Indicator (click for definition) Source (click for press release) Actual Forecast Previous (revised) Previous (original) Monday, August 27 10 a.m. Existing Home Sales for July National Association of Realtors 5.75M 5.70M 5.76M 5.75M Tuesday, August 28 9 a.m. ICSC-UBS Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot for the week ended August 25 International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS +0.3% n.a. +0.2% +0.2% 9 a.m. Johnson Redbook Retail Sales Index for the week ended August 25, vs. July Redbook Research +2.4% n.a. -0.7% -0.7%* 10 a.m. Consumer Confidence Index for August Conference Board 105.0 105.0 111.9 112.6 2 p.m. Federal Open Market Committee minutes Federal Reserve The Fed releases the minutes of its monetary policymaking committee's August 7 meeting. Wednesday, August 29 9 a.m. Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended August 24 -- Market Composite Index Mortgage Bankers Association 615.2 n.a. 641.1 641.1 Purchase Index 424.0 n.a. 441.5 441.5 9 a.m. Consumer Comfort Index for the week ended August 26 ABC News and Washington Post -19 n.a. -20 -20 Thursday, August 30 8:30 a.m. Gross domestic product for Q2 -- preliminary Commerce Department +4.0% +4.1% see Actual +3.4% (Q2 - advance) -- +0.7% (Q1) Implicit price deflator +2.7% n.a. see Actual +2.7% (Q2 - advance) -- +4.2% (Q1) 8:30 a.m. Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended August 25 Labor Department +334,000 +320,000 +325,000 +322,000 Four-week average +325,000 n.a. +318,000 +318,000 10 a.m. Help-Wanted Index for July Conference Board 25 25 26 26 Friday, August 31 8:30 a.m. Personal income for July Commerce Department +0.5% +0.3% +0.4% +0.4% Consumption +0.4% +0.4% +0.2% +0.1% 10 a.m. Bernanke speech Federal Reserve The Fed chairman speaks to Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium on the topic: Housing and Monetary Policy 10 a.m. Chicago Purchasing Managers' Index for August National Association of Purchasing Management -- Chicago 53.8 53.0 53.4 53.4 10 a.m. Factory orders for July Census Bureau +3.7% +0.9% +1.0% +0.6% 10 a.m. Consumer Sentiment Index for August -- final University of Michigan 83.4 83.0 see actual 83.3 (August prelim.) -- 90.4 (July) 10:30 a.m. Weekly Leading Index for the week ended August 24 Economic Cycle Research Institute +1.3% n.a. +2.6% +2.6%

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