Macro


February Employment Preview: Expect +175K Private Payroll Jobs

FMI’s Preview of the February Employment Report

Slump in Corporate Earnings Merits Little Concern

FMI’s Commentary on corporate profits

Data Round-Up: Light at End of Tunnel Getting Brighter

FMI’s analyses of this morning’s February PMI and January Construction reports.

Data Round-Up: Real Consumption on Track for +3.5% Growth in 16Q1

FMI’s analyses of today’s January Personal Income & Consumption data, Second Report of 15Q4 GDP, and the January Advance International Trade in Goods results.

Preview of Data Releases: February 29-March 4, 201

Preview of the rest of the week’s notable data releases (including a Summary of data released in February and a Schedule of major releases in March) from FMI.

February 2016 Regional Business Surveys

FMI’s analysis of today’s February Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index (and other Regional Surveys).

FMI March 2016 Economic and Investment Outlook

FMI's complete March 2016 Economic & Investment Outlook.

Data Round-Up: Home Price Trend Continues to Impress

FMI’s analyses of this morning’s December S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, January Existing Home Sales and February Conference Board Consumer Confidence results as well as a review of today’s collection of February Fed Bank regional manufacturing and services surveys.

FMI Weekly Data Preview; Barron’s Cover Story

FMI’s complete Preview of the notable data releases this week

TOE Alert: Exports Plunge 9% in January from Year Ago; GDP Forecasts for 2016-17 Being Lowered

Key points: - In January, real (price-adjusted) exports plunged by 9% from a year ago, the most severe downturn in three years; three-month average down 5% - Declining exports are a global problem for Japan, not a China problem - Nor does it seem a problem of a global slowdown in imports, but of a Japanese loss in market share ​- Credit Suisse sees GDP growing just 0.4% in calendar 2016 and falling 0.1% in 2017 (latter assumes tax hike is implemented on schedule in April 2017)

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