The key economic reports this week are Retail Sales and the Consumer Price Index (CPI).





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10:00 AM ET: The Fed will release the monthly(LMCI).4:10 PM:, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy: Policy Talk Series, Ann Arbor, Michigan6:00 AM ET: NFIBfor March. 10:00 AM:for February 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 were mostly unchanged in January at 5.626 million compared to 5.539 million in December.The number of job openings (yellow) were down slightly year-over-year, and Quits were up 11% year-over-year.7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the8:30 AM ET: Thereport will be released. The consensus is for 243 thousand initial claims, up from 234 thousand the previous week.8:30 AM: Thefrom the BLS. The consensus is for no change in PPI, and a 0.2% increase in core PPI.10:00 AM:(preliminary for April). The consensus is for a reading of 97.0, up from 96.9 in March. 8:30 AM ET:for March will be released. The consensus is for no change in retail sales in March.This graph shows retail sales since 1992 through February 2017.8:30 AM: Thefrom the BLS. The consensus is for no change in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI.10:00 AM:(business inventories) report for February. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in inventories.