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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Schedule for Week of September 1, 2024
I'll be out of contact from August 20th until Sept 4th.
I'll be back for the August employment report.
The key report this week is the August employment report on Friday.
Other key indicators include the August ISM manufacturing index, August auto sales, and Trade Deficit for July.
All US markets will be closed in observance of the Labor Day holiday.
10:00 AM: ISM Manufacturing Index for August.
10:00 AM: Construction Spending for July.
All Day: Light vehicle sales for August.This graph shows light vehicle sales since the BEA started keeping data in 1967. The dashed line is the sales rate for last month.
----- Wednesday, September 4th -----
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for July from the Census Bureau.
This graph shows the U.S. trade deficit, with and without petroleum, through the most recent report. The blue line is the total deficit, and the black line is the petroleum deficit, and the red line is the trade deficit ex-petroleum products.
10:00 AM: the ISM Services Index for August.
10:00 AM Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for July from the BLS.
This graph shows job openings (yellow line), hires (purple), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.
Jobs openings decreased in June to 8.18 million from 8.23 million in May.
The number of job openings (black) were down 10% year-over-year and Quits were down 12% year-over-year.
2:00 PM: the Federal Reserve Beige Book, an informal review by the Federal Reserve Banks of current economic conditions in their Districts.
----- Thursday, September 5th -----
8:15 AM: The ADP Employment Report for August. This report is for private payrolls only (no government).
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for July from the Census Bureau. This graph shows the U.S. trade deficit, with and without petroleum, through the most recent report. The blue line is the total deficit, and the black line is the petroleum deficit, and the red line is the trade deficit ex-petroleum products.
10:00 AM: the ISM Services Index for August.
10:00 AM Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for July from the BLS. This graph shows job openings (yellow line), hires (purple), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.
Jobs openings decreased in June to 8.18 million from 8.23 million in May.
The number of job openings (black) were down 10% year-over-year and Quits were down 12% year-over-year.
2:00 PM: the Federal Reserve Beige Book, an informal review by the Federal Reserve Banks of current economic conditions in their Districts.
8:15 AM: The ADP Employment Report for August. This report is for private payrolls only (no government).
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.
8:30 AM: Employment Report for August. There were 114,000 jobs added in July, and the unemployment rate was at 4.3%.
This graph shows the jobs added per month since January 2021.
