US Weekly Economic Calendar

time (et)	report	period	Actual	forecast	previous
MONDAY, April 16
8:30 a.m.	Retail sales	March		0.4%	1.1%
8:30 a.m.	Retail sales ex-autos	March		0.6%	0.9%
8:30 a.m.	Empire state index	April		18.0	20.2
10 a.m.	Business inventories	Feb.		0.5%	0.7%
10 a.m.	Home builders' index	April		28	28
TUESDAY, April 17
8:30 a.m.	Housing starts	March		703,000	698,000
9:15 a.m.	Industrial production	March		0.3%	0.0%
9:15 a.m.	Capacity utilization	March		78.5%	78.4%
WEDNESDAY, April 18
	None scheduled
THURSDAY, April 19
8:30 a.m.	Weekly jobless claims	4/14		374,000	380,000
10 a.m.	Existing home sales	March		4.63 mln	4.59 mln
10 a.m.	Leading indicators	March		0.2%	0.7%
10 a.m.	Philly Fed	April		10.8	12.5
FRIDAY, April 20
	None scheduled