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



For manufacturing, February industrial production, and the March New York, and Philly Fed manufacturing surveys, will be released this week.





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10:00 AM:(Monthly) for January 20186:00 AM ET: NFIBfor February.8:30 AM: Thefrom the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.2% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI.7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the 8:30 AM ET:for February will be released. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in retail sales.This graph shows the year-over-year change in retail sales and food service (ex-gasoline) since 1993. Retail and Food service sales, ex-gasoline, increased by 3.5% on a YoY basis.8:30 AM: Thefrom the BLS. The consensus is a 0.2% increase in PPI, and a 0.2% increase in core PPI.10:00 AM:(business inventories) report for January. The consensus is for a 0.5% increase in inventories.8:30 AM ET: Thereport will be released. The consensus is for 230 thousand initial claims, down from 231 thousand the previous week.8:30 AM: thefor March. The consensus is for a reading of 23.3, down from 25.8.8:30 AM ET: The New York Fedfor March. The consensus is for a reading of 14.6, up from 13.1.10:00 AM: The March. The consensus is for a reading of 72, unchanged from 72 in February. Any number above 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as good than poor. 8:30 AM:for February.This graph shows single and total housing starts since 1968.The consensus is for 1.284 million SAAR, down from 1.326 million SAAR. 9:15 AM: The Fed will releasefor February.This graph shows industrial production since 1967.The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in Industrial Production, and for Capacity Utilization to increase to 77.7%. 10:00 AM ET:for January 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 December to 5.811 million from 5.978 in November.The number of job openings (yellow) were up 4.9% year-over-year, and Quits were up 5.6% year-over-year.10:00 AM:(Preliminary for March). The consensus is for a reading of 98.5, down from 99.7.