Macro
February Employment Preview: Expect +175K Private Payroll Jobs
FMI’s Preview of the February Employment Report
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)