Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index on Tap -- Data Week Ahead

The following are forecasts for next week's U.S. data from a survey compiled by The Wall Street Journal.

 
DATE      TIME  RELEASE                    PERIOD     CONSENSUS    PREVIOUS 
          (ET) 
Monday    1000  Wholesale Inventories       Jan      +0.9%   (4)   +0.3% 
Tuesday   0600  Small Business Svy          Feb       96.3   (4)    95.0 
Wednesday 0830  Consumer Price Index  M/M   Feb      +0.4%   (16)  +0.3% 
                  -- ex food & energy M/M   Feb      +0.2%   (16)  +0.0% 
          0830  Consumer Price Index  Y/Y   Feb      +1.7%   (11)  +1.4% 
                  -- ex food & energy Y/Y   Feb      +1.4%   (11)  +1.4% 
          1400  Monthly Federal Budget      Feb       N/A         -$235B* 
Thursday  0830  Jobless Claims              Mar 6     735K   (11)   745K 
          1000  Job Openings                Jan       6.7M   (3)    6.6M 
                  & Labor Turnover 
Friday    0830  Producer Price Index        Feb      +0.4%   (14)  +1.3% 
                  -- ex food & energy       Feb      +0.3%   (12)  +1.2% 
                  -- ex food, energy, trade Feb      +0.2%   (5)   +1.2% 
          1000  Consumer Sentiment          Mar       78.5   (13)   76.8** 
                  (Prelim) 
 
*Feb 2020 Reading 
**Feb Final Reading 
 
(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.) 
 

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