Treasury Budget

Key economic data for the third week (last week) of February 2010 starting February 16th, 2010. This is a short week - only four trading session. On Monday February 15, 2010 the U.S. stock market will be closed due to the President's Day. This week is the options expiration week as well. On Friday February 20, 2010 U.S. February's options will expire. Keep in mind that starting from February 11, 2010 U.S. options have new symbols structure.

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
02/16/10 8:30 AM	Empire Manufacturing	Feb	18.00	15.92
02/16/10 9:00 AM	Net Long-Term TIC Flows	Dec	$50.0B	$126.8B
02/17/10 2:00 PM	Treasury Budget	Jan	-$46.0B	-$91.9B
02/17/10 2:00 PM	Minutes of FOMC Meeting	1/28
02/17/10 8:30 AM	Housing Starts	Jan	580K	557K
02/17/10 8:30 AM	Building Permits	Jan	615K	653K
02/17/10 8:30 AM	Export Prices ex-ag.	Jan	NA	0.5%
02/17/10 8:30 AM	Import Prices ex-oil	Jan	NA	0.4%
02/17/10 9:15 AM	Industrial Production	Jan	0.8%	0.6%
02/17/10 9:15 AM	Capacity Utilization	Jan	72.6%	72.0%
02/18/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	02/6	4500K	4538K
02/18/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	02/13	430K	440K
02/18/10 8:30 AM	PPI	Jan	0.8%	0.2%
02/18/10 8:30 AM	Core PPI	Jan	0.1%	0.0%
02/18/10 10:00 AM	Leading Indicators	Jan	0.5%	1.1%
02/18/10 10:00 AM	Philadelphia Fed	Feb	17.0	15.2
02/18/10 11:00 AM	Crude Inventories	2/12	NA	2.42M
02/19/10 8:30 AM	CPI	Jan	0.3%	0.1%
02/19/10 8:30 AM	Core CPI	Jan	0.2%	0.1%