Consumer Confidence

Key economic data for the last week of April 2010 starting April 27th, 2010. There are no economic reports on April 26th, 2010.

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
04/27/10 9:00 AM	Case-Shiller 20-city Index (y/y)	Feb	1.1%	-0.7%
04/27/10 10:00 AM	Consumer Confidence	Apr	53.7	52.5
04/28/10 2:15 PM	FOMC Rate Decision	4/28	0.25%	0.25%
04/28/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	04/24	NA	1.89M
04/29/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	04/17	4625K	4646K
04/29/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	04/24	440K	456K
04/30/10 8:30 AM	GDP-Adv.	Q1	3.2%	5.6%
04/30/10 8:30 AM	Chain Deflator-Adv.	Q1	0.9%	0.5%
04/30/10 8:30 AM	Employment Cost Index	Q1	0.5%	0.5%
04/30/10 9:45 AM	Chicago PMI	Apr	59.8	58.8
04/30/10 9:55 AM	Mich Sentiment	Apr	71.5	69.5

New Home Sales

Key economic data for the third week of April 2010 starting April 19th, 2010. The coming week is not rich on economic reports.

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
04/19/10 10:00 AM	Leading Indicators	Mar	1.0%	0.1%
04/21/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	04/17	NA	-2.20M
04/22/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	04/17	455K	484K
04/22/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	04/10	4600K	4639K
04/22/10 8:30 AM	PPI	Mar	0.5%	-0.6%
04/22/10 8:30 AM	Core PPI	Mar	0.1%	0.1%
04/22/10 10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales	Mar	5.30M	5.02M
04/22/10 10:00 AM	FHFA Home Price Index	Feb	-0.2%	-0.6%
04/23/10 8:30 AM	Durable Orders	Mar	0.2%	0.9%
04/23/10 8:30 AM	Durable Orders ex auto	Mar	0.6%	1.4%
04/23/10 10:00 AM	New Home Sales	Mar	325K	308K

Beige Book

Key economic data for the second week of April 2010 starting April 12th, 2010. The coming week is not rich on economic reports. Next week is an options expiration week.

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
04/12/10 2:00 PM	Treasury Budget	Mar	$67.5B	-$191.6B
04/13/10 8:30 AM	Export Prices ex-ag.	Mar	NA	-0.2%
04/13/10 8:30 AM	Import Prices ex-oil	Mar	NA	0.2%
04/13/10 8:30 AM	Trade Balance	Feb	-$39.0B	-$37.3B
04/14/10 2:00 PM	Fed's Beige Book	Apr	NA	NA
04/14/10 8:30 AM	CPI	Mar	0.1%	0.0%
04/14/10 8:30 AM	Core CPI	Mar	0.1%	0.1%
04/14/10 8:30 AM	Retail Sales	Mar	1.1%	0.3%
04/14/10 8:30 AM	Retail Sales ex-auto	Mar	0.5%	0.8%
04/14/10 10:00 AM	Business Inventories	Feb	0.3%	0.0%
04/14/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	04/10	NA	1.98M
04/15/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	04/03	4600K	4550K
04/15/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	04/10	440K	460K
04/15/10 9:00 AM	Net Long-Term TIC Flows	Jan	NA	$19.1B
04/15/10 9:15 AM	Capacity Utilization	Mar	73.3%	72.7%
04/15/10 9:15 AM	Industrial Production	Mar	0.7%	0.1%
04/15/10 10:00 AM	Philadelphia Fed	Apr	20.0	18.9
04/16/10 8:30 AM	Building Permits	Mar	626K	637K
04/16/10 8:30 AM	Housing Starts	Mar	610K	575K
04/16/10 9:55 AM	Mich Sentiment	Apr	75.0	73.6

FOMC Meeting

Key economic data for the first week week of April 2010 starting April 5th, 2010. The coming week is not rich on economic reports.

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
04/05/10 10:00 AM	ISM Services	Mar	53.6	50.0
04/05/10 10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales	Feb	-1.0%	-7.6%
04/06/10 2:00 PM	Minutes of FOMC Meeting
04/07/10 3:00 PM	Consumer Credit	Feb	$1.6B	$5.0B
04/07/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	04/03	NA	2.93M
04/08/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	03/27	NA	4662K
04/08/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	04/03	433K	439K
04/09/10 10:00 AM	Wholesale Inventories	Feb	0.3%	-0.1%