Economic Releases Pending Continued Government Shutdown

Week of October 7-11, 2013
• No retail sales, scheduled for Friday
• Federal Reserve will operate normally, including minutes and scheduled speakers; jobless claims also released as usual on Thursday

MONDAY
• Consumer credit: yes

TUESDAY
• NFIB: yes
• Trade: no
• JOLTs: no

WEDNESDAY
• MBA mortgage applications: yes
• Wholesale inventories: no
• Fed minutes: yes

THURSDAY
• Weekly jobless claims: yes
• Import prices: no
• Bloomberg consumer comfort: yes
• Monthly federal budget statement: no

FRIDAY
• Retail sales: no
• PPI: no
• UMich confidence: yes
• Business inventories: no

RELEASES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN POSTPONED (Additional Release TBD)
• Construction spending
• Factory orders
• Payrolls


FOR THE DURATION OF THE SHUTDOWN:
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, which does payrolls, CPI, PPI, won’t collect data, issue reports
• Labor Dept. to issue jobless claims
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), which provides GDP, personal income, current account data, suspends ops
• Oil, natgas inventory data may continue to be released as scheduled; EIA has said funded until Oct. 11
• No USDA reports

Source(s): Birinyi Associates, Bloomberg