Fed Beige Book

Key economic data for the first week of December 2009 starting November 30th, 2009.

Economic Calendar key:
Consensus represents the market consensus estimate for each indicator.
Prior represents the last actual for each indicator.

Date	Release	For	Consensus	Prior
11/30/09 9:45 AM	Chicago PMI	Nov	53.0	54.2
12/01/09 2:00 PM	Auto Sales	Nov	NA	NA
12/01/09 2:00 PM	Truck Sales	Nov	NA	NA
12/01/09 10:00 AM	Construction Spending	Oct	-0.4%	0.8%
12/01/09 10:00 AM	ISM Index	Nov	54.8	55.7
12/01/09 10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales	Oct	-0.5%	6.1%
12/02/09 2:00 PM	Fed Beige Book	Nov
12/02/09 7:30 AM	Challenger Job Cuts	Nov	NA	-50.7%
12/02/09 8:15 AM	ADP Employment Report	Nov	-148K	-203K
12/02/09 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	11/27	NA	1.02M
12/03/09 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	11/28	483K	466K
12/03/09 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	11/21	5517K	5423K
12/03/09 8:30 AM	Productivity-Rev.	Q3	8.5%	9.5%
12/03/09 8:30 AM	Employment Cost Index	Q3	NA	0.4%
12/03/09 10:00 AM	ISM Services	Nov	51.5	50.6
12/04/09 8:30 AM	Nonfarm Payrolls	Nov	-114K	-190K
12/04/09 8:30 AM	Unemployment Rate	Nov	10.2%	10.2%
12/04/09 8:30 AM	Average Workweek	Nov	33.1	33.0
12/04/09 8:30 AM	Hourly Earnings	Nov	0.2%	0.3%
12/04/09 10:00 AM	Factory Orders	Oct	0.1%	0.9%

Economic Calendar - November IV

Key economic data for the last week of November 2009 starting November 23th, 2009.

Economic Calendar key:
Consensus represents the market consensus estimate for each indicator.
Prior represents the last actual for each indicator.

Date	Release	For	Consensus	Prior
11/23/09 10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales	Oct	5.70M	5.57M
11/24/09 8:30 AM	GDP - Preliminary	Q3	2.9%	3.5%
11/24/09 8:30 AM	GDP Deflator - Preliminary	Q3	0.8%	0.8%
11/24/09 9:00 AM	Case Shiller 20 City Index	Sep	-9.05%	-11.32%
11/24/09 9:00 AM	Consumer Confidence	Nov	47.5	47.7
11/24/09 10:00 AM	FHFA Home Price Index	Sep	0.1%	-0.3%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Personal Income	Oct	0.2%	0.0%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Personal Spending	Oct	0.5%	-0.5%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	PCE Prices	Oct	0.1%	-0.5%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	PCE Prices - Core	Oct	0.1%	0.1%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	11/21	500K	505K
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	11/14	5560K	5611K
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Durable Orders	Oct	0.5%	1.0%
11/25/09 8:30 AM	Durable Orders ex Transportation	Oct	0.7%	0.9%
11/25/09 9:55 AM	Mich Sentiment-Rev	Nov	67.0	66.0
11/25/09 10:00 AM	New Home Sales	Oct	405K	402K
11/25/09 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	11/20	NA	-0.887K

Economic Calendar - November III

Key economic data for the Third week of November 2009 starting November 16th, 2009.

Economic Calendar key:
Consensus represents the market consensus estimate for each indicator.
Prior represents the last actual for each indicator.

Date	Release	For	Consensus	Prior
11/16/09 8:30 AM	Retail Sales	Oct	0.9%	-1.5%
11/16/09 8:30 AM	Retail Sales ex-auto	Oct	0.4%	0.5%
11/16/09 8:30 AM	Empire Manufacturing	Nov	30.00	34.57
11/16/09 10:00 AM	Business Inventories	Sep	-0.7%	-1.5%
11/17/09 8:30 AM	Core PPI	Oct	0.1%	-0.1%
11/17/09 8:30 AM	PPI	Oct	0.5%	-0.6%
11/17/09 9:00 AM	Net Long-term TIC Flows	Sep	$35.0B	$28.6B
11/17/09 9:15 AM	Capacity Utilization	Oct	70.8%	70.5%
11/17/09 9:15 AM	Industrial Production	Oct	0.4%	0.7%
11/18/09 8:30 AM	Housing Starts	Oct	600K	590K
11/18/09 8:30 AM	Building Permits	Oct	580K	573K
11/18/09 8:30 AM	CPI	Oct	0.2%	0.2%
11/18/09 8:30 AM	Core CPI	Oct	0.1%	0.2%
11/18/09 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	11/13	NA	1.76M
11/19/09 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	11/14	504K	502K
11/19/09 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	11/13	5600K	5631K
11/19/09 10:00 AM	Leading Indicators	Oct	0.4%	1.0%
11/19/09 10:00 AM	Philadelphia Fed	Nov	12.0	11.5

Economic Calendar - November II

Key economic data for the Second week of November 2009 starting November 9th, 2009.

Economic Calendar key:
Consensus represents the market consensus estimate for each indicator.
Prior represents the last actual for each indicator.

Date	Release	For	Consensus	Prior
11/12/09 2:00 PM	Treasury Budget	Oct	-$150.0B	-$155.5B
11/12/09 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	11/07	NA	NA
11/12/09 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	10/31	NA	NA
11/12/09 11:00 AM	Crude Inventories	11/06	NA	-3.94M
11/13/09 8:30 AM	Export Prices ex-ag.	Oct	NA	NA
11/13/09 8:30 AM	Import Prices ex-oil	Oct	NA	NA
11/13/09 8:30 AM	Trade Balance	Sep	-$31.9B	-$30.7B
11/13/09 9:55 AM	Mich Sentiment-Prel	Nov	71.8	70.6