A busy economic calendar today in the North American session
The economic calendar is busy highlighted by US retail sales at 8:30 AM ET.
8:30 AM ET
- US retail sales estimate -0.1% versus 0.4% last month
- Core retail sales 0.3% versus 0.4%.
- Control group of retail sales 0.3% versus 0.7% last month
- US import and export prices for January. Import prices expected +0.4% versus 0.1%. Export prices +0.3% versus +0.3% last month
- Canada manufacturing sales for December estimate 0.7% versus 0.8% last month.
- Canada also trade for December 0.2% estimate versus -0.2% last month.
9:15 AM ET
- US Industrial production for January 0.3% versus 0.9% last month.
- US capacity utilization for January 77.7 versus 77.6 last month.
- Manufacturing output for January 0.1% versus 0.6% last month.
10 AM ET
- Business inventories for December 0.0% versus +0.1% last month
- Retail inventories X orders last month 0.2%
Federal Reserve Pres. Lorie Logan is expected to speak at 3 PM ET
Comments from Pres. Trump and other administration officials are the wildcards.