What’s Happening in the Markets This Week

Economic Releases Scheduled for the Coming Week

Monday, May 11

• April Existing Home Sales (seasonally adjusted annual rate): FactSet consensus 4,110K vs. 3,980K in March

Tuesday, May 12

• April Consumer Price Index report
  • CPI (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.58% vs. 0.90% in March
  • Core CPI (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.34% vs. 0.20% in March
  • CPI (year over year): FactSet consensus 3.7% vs. 3.3% in March
  • Core CPI (year over year): FactSet consensus 2.7% vs. 2.6% in March

Wednesday, May 13

• April Producer Price Index report
  • PPI (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.34% vs. 0.50% in March
  • Core PPI (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.26% vs. 0.10% in March
  • PPI (year over year): FactSet consensus 5% vs. 4% in March
  • Core PPI (year over year): FactSet consensus N/A vs. 3.8% in March

Thursday, May 14

• Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims report for the week ended May 9: FactSet consensus N/A vs. 200K for the week ended May 2
• April Retail Sales (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.4% vs. 1.7% in March
• March Business Inventories (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.2% vs. 0.4% in February

Friday, May 15

• April Capacity Utilization: FactSet consensus N/A vs. 75.7% in March
• April Industrial Production (month to month): FactSet consensus 0.3% vs. -0.5% in March

Company Earnings

• Wednesday, May 13: Alibaba Group Holding BABA, Cisco Systems CSCO