Economic Data Forecasts For The Weeks Of April 5 And 12

Here are my forecasts for upcoming economic data.
	Forecast	Prior Observation	Consensus
Week of April 5
April 5
Factory Orders - February	-1.0%	2.6	-0.5
PMI Services Index - March	60.0	60.0
ISM Services - March	57.0	55.3	58.5

April 6
JOLTS - February	6.850M	6.917

April 7
International Trade - February	-$70.4B	-68.2	-70.5
Consumer Credit - February	$5.0B	-1.3	5.0

April 8
Initial Unemployment Claims	680K	719	650

April 9
Producer Price Index - March	0.3%	0.5	0.5
PPI less food, energy and trade services	0.2	0.2	0.3

Wholesale Inventories - February (r)	0.5%	0.5

Week of April 12
April 12
Treasury Budget - March	-$780.0B	-296.3

April 13
NFIB Small Business Optimism Index - March	98.0	95.8

Consumer Price Index - March	0.4%	0.4%
Core CPI	0.2	0.1

April 14
Export Prices - March	1.0%	1.6
Import Prices	1.0	1.3
Import Prices, Ex-Petroleum	0.5	0.5

April 15
Retail Sales - March	3.0%	-3.0
Retail Sales, ex Autos	3.2	-2.7
Retail Sales, ex-Autos, Gas	2.7	-3.3

NY Fed Manufacturing Index	14.0	17.4
Philadelphia Fed Survey	38.5	51.8

Industrial Production - March	2.7%	-2.2
Manufacturing	3.2	-3.1
Capacity Utilization	76.5	73.8

Business Inventories - February	0.5%	0.3
NAHB Index - April	84	82

April 16
Housing Starts - March	1.585M	1.421
Building Permits	1.750	1.682