Average Hourly Earnings – The data show the average working salary. The indicator could show the potential inflation pressure connected with the value of the working force. The data come every first Friday of every month together with nonfarm payrolls at 8:30 AM EST.
Balance of Trade – The data give the difference between the national export and import. The most important is that a positive balance of trade is positive for the economy and is expected to strengthen the national currency.
Beige Book – The Federal Reserve public it eight times for the year, as Beige Book contains information for the economic and business conditions. The data coming by the bank sector in different forms of analyzing by interviews by economists experts and others. The Beige Book comes usually two weeks prior to each FOMC meeting. The indicator is in the help of the FOMC to make the decision for the interest rates. As the interest are the most important for the traders, the Beige Book data has to be considered as a very important element before the real interest rates decision.
Building Permits – The data come monthly and is the same as Housing starts but show the permits for the building while the Housing start shows the real start of the buildings. The key control of the housing start and permits come by the interest rates level.
Business Inventories – The data show the volume of the stores of enterprise load and semi-manufactured articles. The increasing data during the month could mean a standstill in the economy. The data come once in the middle of the month at 8:30 AM EST.
Capacity Utilization – The data come to show how the economy and the enterprise are utilization and the middle value is 81 – 83 %. The greater number led to higher prices (PPI) and proves to be inflationary.
Chicago PMI – It is a very important index for the Chicago area for business activity. The market usually reacts to that data. The index shows the enterprises and the stores available. The level of 50 is key and above 50 is reading for expanding economy. The index is published by Purchasing Manager Association in Chicago and comes on the last day of the month at 10:00 AM EST.
Consumer Credit – It is an indicator for the consumers and for the credit taken by the consumers taken for a long time. When the data is higher it is talking about overheating the economy. The data have season fluctuations. The data come once monthly at 3:00 PM EST.
Consumer Confidence – One of the most important indexes comes monthly at the end of the month and shows the level of spending and consummation in the USA. The index is very important because two-thirds of the GDP in the USA come from consumers. The data come once monthly about the 20th of the month at 10:00 AM EST.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) – It is data for the inflation of typical consumers. There are fixed baskets with goods that every month CPI gives the data what is the level of the consumer price index. There is and Core CPI that is a measurement of the true inflationary where are excluding the foods and energy items.
Construction Spending – The data come once monthly on the first working day of the month at 10:00 AM EST. The data give the spending in the construction sector. In most cases, bigger spending means a growing economy and is positive news for the economy.
Current Account – This economic indicator gives data for International trading and is the broadest measurement of the sales of goods, services interests, and unilateral payments and transfers.
Durable Goods Orders – The data come once monthly in the last week of the month at 8:30 AM EST. It gives the big bought as capital goods like machines, equipment, and transport defense orders, cars, furniture, and so on. Data is one of the important factors for the development of the economy. Some defense orders could make big volatility in the data so is better to watch the data in a bigger period and the local monthly changes to not accept all the time as key.
Employment Cost Index (ECI) – ECI measures the changes in employee wages and salaries. The data do not include the federal government workers. Not always rising ECI is accepted as positive, and it means by the condition of the economy. If ECI is higher but the economy is weak, sometimes it could be negative, because the industry will have less money for investments and so on.
Factory Orders – The data come once monthly as Durable Goods orders one week earlier. It is one of the most difficult data to forecast and is extremely volatile. It gives the orders for shipments of non-durable goods, manufacturing inventories, and inventory sales ratio.
FED FOMC meeting – One of the most important if not and the most important event connected with the changes of the Interest rates. After the decision, a few days later is making a protocol public with the reasons for the decision called Minutes of the FOMC. The market reacts to this news with very big movements as the key are the rumors starting months before the meeting even.
Gross Domestic Products (GDP) – One of the most important data for every economy is GDP. It gives the measure of the market gods and service produced in a country. The components of the GDP are four: consumption, investments, net exports, and government purchases. The releases of the data have three parts: Advance release, preliminary release, and final release.
GDP Deflator – The index is in analogy with the CPI index and shows the changes in the prices of all including in GDP.
Help Wanted Index – This index comes once monthly every last Thursday of the Month at 10:00 AM EST and shows the requests for help connected with empty working places not finding a suitable specialist. A sometimes higher value of the index could sign for higher inflation as the absence of working specialists could push higher salaries.
HICP – The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices come from the EuroZone and is the main measure for inflation. All countries try to keep the inflation at in possible range and to not extend of 2.0% for the countries in the EuroZone. Negative inflation with mark minus is much more negative than bigger inflation and mean deflation.
Housing Starts – The data come monthly and show how many new houses are starting to build, as are divided into single and multi-family categories. The most import for rising housing starts come when the interest rates are low, and when the rates are higher the housing starts are lower.
IFO – IFO is the most important economic indicator for Germany. The data come monthly and show the business conditions in Germany. The markets’ most important indicator shows and gives the real picture of the economic activity.
Industrial Production – The data come once monthly and measure the percentage changes in the volumes of the output of factories, mines, and utilities.
Initial Jobless Claims – The data come every Thursday of the month at 8:30 AM EST and show how many new social requests are sent. It is one of the most important indicators for monthly Unemployment. The critical level accepted by the market is 400K.
Implicit Deflator – The data measure the inflationary component in the GDP report.
ISM Index – The index comes from the Institute for Supply management. It is the former National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM). The report comes on the first working day of the month and gives detailed data for the sector of the manufacture before coming to the key employment report. The market moves after that news-making real picture about the expecting employment data. ISM is the leading survey on US manufacturing activity. The key for ISM is level 50. Below 50 the data mean that the economy is in negative development and above 50 that the economy expands.
ISM Service – Only a few months ago the index was known as the ISM nonmanufacturers index. It is the same as the ISM index with the difference that the index shows the situation in the services sector – non-manufacture sector. Also, the level of 50 is key as ISM Index, and also reading above 50 is positive for the sector. The market also reacts to the news and is one of the most important.
Leading economic indicators – It is a component of 10 different indicators and gives the data for aggregate economic activity. The included data in the indicator come from various sectors as manufactures, buildings, finance, retails, and consumers. The data but is not so important for the market and the effect is little.
New Home Sales – The data come once monthly and show the new home sales for the four main geographical areas in the USA. The report includes information on the home prices and the number of houses sales. It is a crucial segment in economic activity because the changes in spending affect growth. Often but the reports contain big volatility.
Non-farm payrolls – The data come together with the US Unemployment data every first Friday of the new month at 8:30 AM EST. The data is more important for the traders by the Unemployment level and shows how many new working places are adding to the economy or is losing. With minus is the loss and with plus the adding working places. The data show more clearly than the Unemployment look in the future because adding new jobs mean that for the future the economy will develop having a more working place. The data is measured in real working places. For example, if the economy adds 115 000 new working places the index will be 115K, or when lose for example 115 000 the index will be –115K.
Personal Income – The data come once monthly and show all changes in the wages, salaries, proprietors income, income from rents, dividends interest social, and unemployment payments.
Personal Spending – The data come once monthly and show the changes in spending for goods services by individuals and is the largest component of GDP.
Philadelphia Fed Index – The index shows the business activity in the Philadelphia region. It is one of the key data for a key economic region in the USA. The data come about the 18th of every month at 10:00 AM EST.
Producer Price Index (PPI) – The data is realized once monthly and shows the changes in wholesale prices. Also, Core PPI is realized with PPI and shows the true picture of the inflationary forces as excluding the highly volatile foods and energy items.
Productivity – The data measure the change in the number of goods and services produced per unit of input. It is a key indicator for the economy and is accepted as important by the markets.
Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) – The index is used by Germany, Japan, and the UK and is equal to the ISM index for the USA. It is used to assess business confidence. The index gives data for the manufacturing and services industries.
Retail Sales – The data come once monthly. It measures the percentage monthly changes in receipts of retail sales stores and includes durable and non-durable goods. It is a real indicator of the strength of consumer expenditure. The markets accept the indicator as one of the keys to the economy.
Unemployment – Is one of the key indicators for the economy. It gives the real percent of the active people that are not occupied with work. The data come once monthly every first Friday of the start of the new month at 8:30 AM EST. It is one of the most important data that come together with US Non-farm farm payrolls. Also with the news come and other data as average hour’s earnings.
University of Michigan Consumer Confidence – The data come once monthly to give the real business activity and the confidence of the consumers in the future. The index has two characters showing the nowadays conditions – sentiment index and the expecting conditions – expectations index. The index is one of the most important for the economy.
Wholesales Inventories – The index shows the goods store. The index is connected with the selling and the remaining production in the stores. Up of the index mean some difficulties in the stores and not fast-selling production happens when having some standstill in the economy. The data come about the 10th every month at 10:00 AM EST.
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