Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales Seen Rising -- Data Week Ahead Update

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

 
DATE      TIME  RELEASE                    PERIOD     CONSENSUS    PREVIOUS 
          (ET) 
Tuesday   0830  Housing Starts              Sep       1.47M  (19)   1.416M 
                  -- percent change         Sep      +3.8%         -5.1% 
          0830  Building Permits            Sep       1.52M  (13)   1.470M 
                  -- percent change         Sep      +3.4%         -0.9% 
Thursday  0830  Jobless Claims              Oct 17    875K   (16)   898K 
          1000  Existing Home Sales         Sep       6.37M  (19)   6.0M 
                  -- percent change         Sep      +6.2%         +2.4% 
          1000  Leading Index               Sep      +0.6%   (11)  +1.2% 
          1100  Kansas City Fed Mfg Svy     Oct       N/A           11 
                  Composite Index 
Friday    0945  Markit Flash Mfg PMI        Oct       53.7   (4)    53.2* 
          0945  Markit Flash Services PMI   Oct       55     (4)    54.6* 
 
*End-Sep Reading 
 
(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.) 
 

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