On Tap Today: Latest Producer Price Index and Initial Jobless Claims
The market will have a handful of economic and earnings reports to help give it some direction today.
The latest reading of the
Producer Price Index -- measuring wholesale prices --
initial jobless claims and
business inventories will be released.
Investors have been watching jobless claims closely to track the health of the labor market. Even though the unemployment rate dipped last month, it has generally been moving higher.
Adobe Systems
(ADBE) - Get Report
and
Heinz
(HNZ)
will report earnings today. Analysts polled by earnings tracker
Thomson Financial/First Call
expect the software company to earn 29 cents a share, excluding goodwill. It made 26 cents a share in the year-ago period.
Food products company Heinz is expected to make 53 cents a share, below last year's 63 cents.
Economic Data
(
Forecasts are from
Reuters
. Times are Eastern. For a longer-term economic calendar and more, see
TSC's
Economic Databank.
)
- 8:30 a.m.:
Producer Price Index for May. Source:
Labor Department. Forecast: +0.3%. Previous: +0.3%.
Ex-Food and Energy. Forecast: +0.1%. Previous: +0.2%.
8:30 a.m.:
Initial Jobless Claims for the week ended June 9. Source:
Labor Department. Forecast: n.a. Previous: 432,000.
Four-Week Average. Forecast: n.a. Previous: 413,500.
8:30 a.m.:
Business Inventories for April. Source:
Census Bureau. Forecast: n.a. Previous: -0.3%.