What’s Happening In the Markets This Week

Economic Releases Scheduled for the Coming Week

All consensus estimates are sourced from FactSet.

Tuesday, May 14

• April Producer Price Index report
  • PPI (month to month): 0.3% vs. 0.2% in March
  • Core PPI (month to month): 0.2% vs. 0.2% in March
  • PPI (year over year): 2.2% vs. 2.1% in March
  • Core PPI (year over year): 2.3% vs. 2.4% in March

Wednesday, May 15

• April Consumer Price Index report
  • CPI (month to month): 0.4% vs. 0.4% in March
  • Core CPI (month to month): 0.3% vs. 0.4% in March
  • CPI (year over year): 3.4% vs. 3.5% in March
  • Core CPI (year over year): 3.6% vs. 3.8% in March
• April Retail Sales (month to month): 0.40% vs. 0.98% in March
• March Business Inventories (month to month): 0.1% vs. 0.4% in Feb.

Thursday, May 16

• April New Residential Construction report
  • Preliminary Building Permits (seasonally adjusted annual rate): 1,489K vs. 1,467K in March
  • Housing Starts (seasonally adjusted annual rate): 1,445K vs. 1,321K in March
• Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims report for the week ended May 11: 214K vs. 231K for the week ended May 4
• May Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Index: 5.0 vs. 15.5 in April
• April Capacity Utilization: 78.4% vs. 78.4% in March
• April Industrial Production (month to month): 0.1% vs. 0.4% in March

Friday, May 17

• April Leading Indicators (month to month): -0.25% vs. -0.30% in March

Investor Relations Weekly Calendar: Highlighted Corporate Earnings and More

Tuesday, May 14

Corporate Earnings: Alibaba BABA, Home Depot HD

Wednesday, May 15

Corporate Earnings: Cisco Systems CSCO

Thursday, May 16

Corporate Earnings: Baidu BIDU, Walmart WMT