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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Thursday: GDP, Unemployment Claims

by Calculated Risk on 8/24/2022 08:58:00 PM

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Gross Domestic Product, 2nd quarter 2022 (second estimate). The consensus is that real GDP decreased 0.8% annualized in Q2, up from the advance estimate of -0.9% in Q2.

• Also at 8:30 AM, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for an increase to 253 thousand from 250 thousand last week.

• At 11:00 AM, the Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey for August.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):


COVID Metrics
 NowWeek
Ago
Goal
New Cases per Day289,69899,736≤5,0001
Hospitalized233,24735,597≤3,0001
Deaths per Day2390443≤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.

COVID-19 Deaths per DayClick on graph for larger image.

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.