Here are my forecasts for upcoming economic data. Forecast Prior       Observation   Week of January 13       January 13       Treasury Budget – December -$30B -366.8           January 14       NFIB Small Business Confidence – December 99.0 101.7           Producer Price Index – December 0.3% 0.4   Core PPI (PPI ex Food, Energy, Trade Services) 0.3 0.2           January 15       Consumer Price Index – December 0.3% 0.3   Core CPI 0.3 0.3           NY Fed Manufacturing Index – January -2.0 0.2           January 16       Retail Sales – December 0.5% 0.3   Retail Sales, ex autos 0.4 0.2   Retail Sales, ex autos and gasoline 0.3 0.2           Philadelphia Fed Index 0.0 -16.4           Export Prices – December -0.4% 0.0   Import Prices_ December -0.3 0.1   Ex Petroleum -0.1 0.0           Initial Unemployment Claims 215K 201   Business Inventories – November 0.2% 0.1   NAHB Index – January 46 46           January 17       Housing Starts – December 1.310M 1.289   Building Permits 1.462 1.505           Industrial Production – December 0.2% -0.1   Capacity Utilization 76.9 76.8   Manufacturing 0.2 0.2           Week of January 20       January 22       Leading Indicators 0.0% 0.3           January 23       Chicago Fed National Activity Index – December -0.12 -0.12           Existing Home Sales – December 4.200M 4.150

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