United States Economic Calendar for December 18, 2020

ECONOMIC CALENDAR

UNITED STATES ECONOMIC CALENDAR

Fri., Dec 18				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	USD	08:30 AM	Current Account Balance - BoP	Q3	-178.5B	-170B	-161.4 (R)B

	USD	10:00 AM	Coincidence Index	NOV	0.2%	-	0.6 (R)%

	USD	10:00 AM	Lagging Index	NOV	-0.4%	-	0.3 (R)%

	USD	10:00 AM	Leading Index	NOV	0.6%	0.5%	0.8 (R)%

	USD	01:00 PM	Baker Hughes - Rig Count	DEC 18	346	-	338
Tue., Dec 22				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	USD	08:30 AM	Personal Consumption Expenditure (Q-o-Q)	Q3	41.0%	-	-33.2%

	USD	08:30 AM	GDP (Y-o-Y)	Q3	-2.8%	-	-9.0%

	USD	08:30 AM	GDP Deflator (Q-o-Q)	Q3	3.5%	-	-1.8%

	USD	08:30 AM	Personal Consumption Expenditure (Y-o-Y)	Q3	-2.8%	-	-10.2%

	USD	08:30 AM	GDP (Q-o-Q)	Q3	33.4%	33.1%	-31.4%

	USD	08:30 AM	Core Personal Consumption Expenditure (Y-o-Y)	Q3	1.4	-	1.0

	USD	10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales - Price	NOV	310.8K	-	313.1(R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales - Inventories	NOV	1.28M	-	1.42M

	USD	10:00 AM	Consumer Confidence Index	DEC	88.6	100	92.9 (R)

	USD	10:00 AM	Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index	DEC	19	-	15

	USD	10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales - Sales	NOV	6.69M	6.6M	6.86 (R)M
Wed., Dec 23				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders Ex. Transportation (M-o-M)	NOV	0.4%	0.3%	1.9 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders Ex. Defense (M-o-M)	NOV	0.7%	-	0.8 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	PCE Deflator (M-o-M)	NOV	-0.4%	-	0.3 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	Personal Spending (M-o-M)	NOV	-0.4%	-0.5%	0.3 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	Durable Goods Orders (M-o-M)	NOV	0.9%	0%	1.8 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	PCE Deflator (Y-o-Y)	NOV	1.1%	-	1.2%

	USD	08:30 AM	Core PCE Deflator (Y-o-Y)	NOV	1.4%	-	1.4%

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims - 4 Wk Average	DEC 19	818.25K	-	814.25 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims - 4 Wk Average	DEC 12	5538.00K	-	5726.00 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Initial Jobless Claims	DEC 19	803K	900K	892 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Continuing Claims	DEC 12	5337K	-	5507 (R)K

	USD	08:30 AM	Personal Income (M-o-M)	NOV	-1.1%	-0.5%	-0.6 (R)%

	USD	08:30 AM	Core PCE Deflator (M-o-M)	NOV	-	0.1%	0.2 (R)%

	USD	09:00 AM	House Price Index (M-o-M)	OCT	1.5%	-	1.7%

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Median Prices	NOV	335.3K	-	337.5 (R)K

	USD	10:00 AM	Univ. of Mich. Consumer Confidence Index	DEC	80.7	-	76.9

	USD	10:00 AM	New Home Sales - Units	NOV	999K	960K	1002 (R)K

	USD	10:30 AM	EIA Crude Oil Inventory (Barrels)	DEC 18	499.5M	-	500.1M

	USD	12:00 PM	EIA Natural Gas Inventory (Cubic Feet)	DEC 18	3574B	-	3726B

	USD	01:00 PM	EIA Crude Oil Price	DEC 18	47.98	-	46.05
Tue., Dec 29				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	USD	09:00 AM	S&P/Case-Shiller Composite-20 (Y-o-Y)	OCT	7.9%	-	6.6%

	USD	09:00 AM	S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index	OCT	229.93	-	226.80
Wed., Dec 30				Period	Actual	Forecast	Previous

	USD	09:45 AM	Chicago PMI	DEC	59.5	-	58.2

	USD	10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales (Y-o-Y)	NOV	16.4%	-	20.2%

	USD	10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales (M-o-M)	NOV	-2.6%	-2.5%	-1.1%

	USD	10:30 AM	EIA Crude Oil Inventory (Barrels)	DEC 25	493.5M	-	499.5M

	USD	01:00 PM	EIA Crude Oil Price	DEC 25	47.78	-	47.98

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