Existing Home Sales Seen Down, New Home Sales Expected to Rise -- Data Week Ahead

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

Forecasts were last updated Monday afternoon.

 
DATE      TIME  RELEASE                    PERIOD     CONSENSUS    PREVIOUS 
          (ET) 
Thursday  0830  Jobless Claims              Apr 17    603K   (22)   576K 
          1000  Existing Home Sales         Mar       6.11M  (33)   6.22M 
                  -- percent change                  -1.8%         +6.6% 
          1000  Leading Index               Mar      +1.0%   (19)  +0.2% 
          1100  Kansas City Fed Mfg Svy     Apr       27     (5)    26 
                  Composite Index 
Friday    0945  Markit Flash Mfg PMI        Apr       60.5   (11)   59.1* 
          0945  Markit Flash Services PMI   Apr       61.0   (9)    60.4* 
          1000  New Home Sales              Mar       888K   (32)   775K 
                  -- percent change         Mar      +14.6%         -18.2% 
 
*End-March Reading 
 
(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.) 
 

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04-20-21 1014ET