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

Mich Sentiment

The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (also known as Mich Sentiment) is almost identical to the Conference Board Consumer Confidence index. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is released twice a month. Preliminary release is scheduled at 10:00 ET on the second Friday of the month, and final release is scheduled at 10:00 ET on the fourth Friday of the month. The same as Conference Board index, the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index has two sub-indexes which cover expectations and current conditions. The expectations sub-index is used as a component of the Conference Board's Leading Indicators index.

The Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is considered one of the foremost indicators of US consumer sentiment. The Consumer Sentiment Index has valued for its quick turnarounds. As a rule falling economy is accompanied by declining in consumer confidence levels and falling sentiment index is considered as an early indicator of an economic downturn.