Weekend:• Schedule for Week of December 15, 2019 • Mortgage Equity Withdrawal Positive in Q3 Monday:• At 8:30 AM ET, The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for December. […]

Note: This is not Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW) data from the Fed. The last MEW data from Fed economist Dr. Kennedy was for Q4 2008. The following data is calculated […]

The key economic reports this week are November Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, the 3rd estimate of Q3 GDP, and November Personal income and outlays. For manufacturing, November Industrial Production, […]

From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported mostly positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of […]

From HotelNewsNow.com: STR: US hotel results for week ending 7 December The U.S. hotel industry reported mostly positive year-over-year results in the three key performance metrics during the week of […]

From Merrill Lynch The retail sales data nudged 3Q and 4Q GDP tracking a tenth lower to 2.1% and 1.5% qoq saar. [Dec 13 estimate]emphasis added From the NY Fed […]

On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 0.3 percent from October to November (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 3.3 percent from November 2018. From the Census Bureau report: Advance […]

Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Retail sales for November will be released.  The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in retail sales.

Special note: The expansion to the Panama Canal was completed in 2016 (As I noted a few years ago), and some of the traffic that used the ports of Los […]

Friday:• At 8:30 AM ET, Retail sales for November will be released.  The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in retail sales.