GDP Reports

Key economic data for the last week of May 2010 starting May 24th, 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
05/24/10 10:00 AM	Existing Home Sales	Apr		5.65M	5.4M
05/25/10 9:00 AM	Case-Shiller 20-city Index	Mar		2.8%	0.6%
05/25/10 10:00 AM	Consumer Confidence	May		58.3	57.9
05/25/10 10:00 AM	FHFA Housing Price Index	Mar		NA	-0.2%
05/26/10 8:30 AM	Durable Orders	Apr		1.4%	-0.3%
05/26/10 8:30 AM	Durable Orders ex Transportation	Apr		0.5%	3.5%
05/26/10 10:00 AM	New Home Sales	Apr		425	411
05/26/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	05/22		NA	0.162M
05/27/10 8:30 AM	GDP - Second Estimate	Q1		3.3%	3.2%
05/27/10 8:30 AM	GDP Deflator - Second Estimate	Q1		0.9%	0.9%
05/27/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	05/22		455K	NA
05/27/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	05/22		4600K	NA
05/28/10 8:30 AM	Personal Income	Apr		0.4%	0.3%
05/28/10 8:30 AM	Personal Spending	Apr		0.3%	0.6%
05/28/10 8:30 AM	PCE Prices - Core	Apr		0.1%	0.1%
05/28/10 9:45 AM	Chicago PMI	May		60.0	63.8
05/28/10 9:55 AM	U. Michigan Consumer Sentiment	May		73.7	73.3

Calendar key:
Actual refers to the actual figures after t

Options Expiration

Key economic data for the third week of May 2010 starting April 17th, 2010. The coming week is an options expiration week. As a rule, during options expiration higher volatility could be expected.

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
05/17/10 9:00 AM	Net Long-Term TIC Flows	Feb	40.0	47.1
05/18/10 8:30 AM	Building Permits	Apr	680K	680K
05/18/10 8:30 AM	Core PPI	Apr	0.1%	0.1%
05/18/10 8:30 AM	Housing Starts	Apr	656K	626K
05/18/10 8:30 AM	PPI	Apr	0.1%	0.7%
05/19/10 8:30 AM	Core CPI	Apr	0.0%	0.0%
05/19/10 8:30 AM	CPI	Apr	0.1%	0.1%
05/19/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	05/15	NA	1.95M
05/20/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	05/15	4600K	4627K
05/20/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	05/15	440K	444K
05/20/10 10:00 AM	Leading Indicators	Apr	0.2%	1.4%
05/20/10 10:00 AM	Philadelphia Fed	May	21.3	20.2

Calendar key:
Actual refers to the actual figures after their release.

Export/Import

Key economic data for the second week of May 2010 starting May 11th, 2010. There are no economic reports on Monday May 10, 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
05/11/10 10:00 AM	Wholesale Inventories	Mar	0.5%	0.6%
05/12/10 2:00 PM	Treasury Budget	Apr	-$20.0B	-$20.9B
05/12/10 8:30 AM	Trade Balance	Mar	-$40.0B	-$39.7B
05/12/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	05/08	NA	2.75M
05/13/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	05/08	4590K	4594K
05/13/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	05/08	440K	444K
05/13/10 8:30 AM	Export Prices ex-ag.	Apr	NA	0.6%
05/13/10 8:30 AM	Import Prices ex-oil	Apr	NA	0.2%
05/14/10 8:30 AM	Retail Sales	Apr	0.2%	1.9%
05/14/10 8:30 AM	Retail Sales ex-auto	Apr	0.5%	0.9%
05/14/10 9:15 AM	Capacity Utilization	Apr	73.8%	73.2%
05/14/10 9:15 AM	Industrial Production	Apr	0.6%	0.1%
05/14/10 9:55 AM	Mich Sentiment	May	73.5	72.2
05/14/10 10:00 AM	Business Inventories	Mar	0.4%	0.5%

Auto and Truck Sales Report on Monday

Key economic data for the First week of May 2010 starting may 3rd, 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
05/03/10 2:00 PM	Auto Sales	Apr	4.2M	4.3M
05/03/10 2:00 PM	Truck Sales	Apr	4.6M	4.8M
05/03/10 8:30 AM	Personal Income	Mar	0.3%	0.0%
05/03/10 8:30 AM	Personal Spending	Mar	0.6%	0.3%
05/03/10 10:00 AM	Construction Spending	Mar	-0.3%	-1.3%
05/03/10 10:00 AM	ISM Index	Apr	60.0	59.6
05/04/10 10:00 AM	Factory Orders	Mar	-0.2%	0.6%
05/04/10 10:00 AM	Pending Home Sales	Mar	5.0%	8.2%
05/05/10 8:15 AM	ADP Employment Change	Apr	30K	-23K
05/05/10 10:00 AM	ISM Services	Apr	56.1	55.4
05/05/10 10:30 AM	Crude Inventories	05/01	NA	1.96M
05/06/10 8:30 AM	Continuing Claims	05/01	4600K	4645K
05/06/10 8:30 AM	Initial Claims	05/01	440K	448K
05/06/10 8:30 AM	Productivity-Prel	Q1	2.4%	6.9%
05/07/10 3:00 PM	Consumer Credit	Mar	-$3.9B	-$11.5B
05/07/10 8:30 AM	Unemployment Rate	Apr	9.7%	9.7%
05/07/10 8:30 AM	Nonfarm Payrolls	Apr	187K	162K
05/07/10 8:30 AM	Average Workweek	Apr	34.0	34.0
05/07/10 8:30 AM	Hourly Earnings	Apr	0.1%	-0.1%