Description

Measures: Level of a composite index based on surveyed manufacturers, builders, wholesalers, services, and retailers;

Why Traders Cares: It's a leading indicator of economic health - businesses react quickly to market conditions, and changes in their sentiment can be an early signal of future economic activity such as spending, hiring, and investment;

Notes: This survey is highly respected due to its large sample size and historic correlation with German and wider Eurozone economic conditions. It tends to create a hefty market impact upon release. 

• Actual85.7
• Forecast85.2
• Previous87.4
• Release2d, 3h ago

Description

Measures: Change in the total value of new purchase orders placed with manufacturers for durable goods, excluding transportation items;

Why Traders Cares: It's a leading indicator of production - rising purchase orders signal that manufacturers will increase activity as they work to fill the orders;

Notes: Orders for aircraft are volatile and can severely distort the underlying trend. The Core data is therefore thought to be a better gauge of purchase order trends;

• Actual0.5%
• Forecast0.2%
• Previous0.7%
• Release1mo, 2d ago

Description

Measures: change in the total value of new purchase orders placed with manufacturers for durable goods;

Why Traders Cares: It's a leading indicator of production - rising purchase orders signal that manufacturers will increase activity as they work to fill the orders;

Notes: Durable goods are defined as hard products having a life expectancy of more than 3 years, such as automobiles, computers, appliances, and airplanes;

• Actual-5.2%
• Forecast-4%
• Previous1.8%
• Release1mo, 2d ago

Description

Measures: Level of a diffusion index based on surveyed manufacturers, builders, retailers, agricultural firms, and service providers;

Why Trades Cares: It's a leading indicator of economic health - businesses react quickly to market conditions, and changes in their sentiment can be an early signal of future economic activity such as spending, hiring, and investment;

Notes: Above 0.0 indicates optimism, below indicates pessimism;

• Actual-3.7
• Forecast-1.9
• Previous-13.1
• Release3w, 6d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the total value of sales at the retail level;

Why Traders Cares: It's the primary gauge of consumer spending, which accounts for the majority of overall economic activity;

• Actual0.5%
• Forecast0.3%
• Previous0.8%
• Release4w, 2d ago

Description

Measures: Annualized change in the value of all goods and services produced by the economy;

Why Traders Cares: t's the broadest measure of economic activity and the primary gauge of the economy's health;

Notes: There are 3 versions of GDP released a month apart - Advance, Preliminary, and Final. The Advance release is the earliest and thus tends to have the most impact;

• Actual2%
• Forecast2.2%
• Previous2.2%
• Release3w, 6d ago

Description

Measures: Annualized change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy;

Why Traders Cares: It's the broadest measure of economic activity and the primary gauge of the economy's health;

Notes: There are three versions of GDP released a month apart – Advance, Preliminary, and Final. The Advance release is the earliest and thus tends to have the most impact;

• Actual2.1%
• Forecast2.4%
• Previous2.4%
• Release3w, 6d ago

Description

Measures: The number of individuals who filed for unemployment insurance for the first time during the past week;

Why Traders Cares: Although it's generally viewed as a lagging indicator, the number of unemployed people is an important signal of overall economic health because consumer spending is highly correlated with labor-market conditions. Unemployment is also a major consideration for those steering the country's monetary policy;

Notes: 

• Actual201K
• Forecast225K
• Previous217K
• Release5d, 23h ago

Description

Measures: Annualized change in the value of all goods and services produced by the economy

Why Traders Cares: It's the broadest measure of economic activity and the primary gauge of the economy's health

Notes: GDP Annualized is a gross measure of market activity because it indicates the pace at which a country's economy is growing or decreasing. Generally speaking, a high reading or a better than expected number is seen as positive for the USD, while a low reading is negative.

• Actual2.1%
• Forecast2.4%
• Previous2.4%
• Release3w, 6d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy;

Why Traders Cares: It's the broadest measure of economic activity and the primary gauge of the economy's health;

• Actual0.2%
• Forecast0%
• Previous0.1%
• Release1mo, 2w ago

Description

Measures: Change in the price of goods and services purchased by consumers;

Why Traders Cares: Consumer prices account for a majority of overall inflation. Inflation is important to currency valuation because rising prices lead the central bank to raise interest rates out of respect for their inflation containment mandate;

• Actual0.5%
• Forecast0.6%
• Previous0.6%
• Release1w, 1d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the price of goods and services purchased by consumers, excluding food, energy, alcohol, and tobacco;

Why Trades Cares: Consumer prices account for a majority of overall inflation. Inflation is important to currency valuation because rising prices lead the central bank to raise interest rates out of respect for their inflation containment mandate;

• Actual5.3%
• Forecast5.3%
• Previous5.3%
• Release1w, 1d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the inflation-adjusted value of all expenditures by consumers;

Why Traders Cares: Consumer spending accounts for a majority of overall economic activity. It's one of the most important gauges of economic health due to the vast ripple effect consumer buying creates in the economy;

• Actual0.8%
• Forecast0.6%
• Previous0.5%
• Release3w, 5d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the total value of income received from all sources by consumers;

Why Traders Cars: Income is correlated with spending - the more disposable income consumers have, the more likely they are to increase spending;

• Actual0.2%
• Forecast0.3%
• Previous0.5%
• Release3w, 5d ago

Description

Measures: Change in the inflation-adjusted value of all goods and services produced by the economy;

Why Traders Cares: It's the broadest measure of economic activity and the primary gauge of the economy's health;

• Actual-0.2%
• Forecast-0.2%
• Previous0.1%
• Release3w, 4d ago

Description

The Core Personal Consumption Expenditure released by the US Bureau of Economic Analysis is an average amount of money that consumers spend in a month. "Core" excludes seasonally volatile products such as food and energy in order to capture an accurate calculation of the expenditure. It is a significant indicator of inflation. A high reading is bullish for the USD, while a low reading is bearish.

• Actual0.2%
• Forecast0.2%
• Previous0.2%
• Release3w, 5d ago