Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, the initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for 230 thousand down from 235 thousand last week.

• Also, at 8:30 AM, The Producer Price Index for June from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.8% increase in PPI, and a 0.5% increase in core PPI.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):

COVID Metrics
	Now	Week Ago	Goal
New Cases per Day2🚩	123,365	108,028	≤5,0001
Hospitalized2🚩	31,993	28,720	≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2🚩	342	311	≤501
1my goals to stop daily posts, 27-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths 🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths ✅ Goal met.

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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.

Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.