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March 20, 2020 Calendar of Releases Titles for the current week are links to their respective releases. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY March 16 March 17 March 18 March 19 March 20 FOMC Meeting Statement (March 15) Retail Sales (Feb) A: -0.5% PF: 0.2% Housing Starts (Feb) A: 1599K PF: 1500K Initial Claims (3/14) A: 281K PF: 218K Existing Home Sales (Feb) A: 5.8M PF: 5.5M Business Inventories (Jan) A: -0.1% PF: -0.1% Building Permits (Feb) A: 1464K PF: 1505K Current Account (Q4) A: -$109.8B PF: -$108.8B March 24 March 25 March 26 March 27 New Home Sales (Feb) CF: 750K PF: 750K Durable Goods (Feb) CF: -0.7% PF: -1.3% Initial Claims (3/21) CF: 775K PF: N/A Personal Income (Feb) CF: 0.4% PF: 0.3% GDP (Q4) Consumption (Feb) CF: 0.2% PF: N/A Capacity Utilization (Feb) A: 77.0% PF: 77.0% Industrial Production (Feb) PF: 0.4% A: 0.6% Job Openings, Total (Jan) A: 7.0M PF: 6.4M March 23 CF: 2.1% PF: 2.1% Corporate Profits (Q4) Core PCE (Feb) CF: 0.2% PF: N/A Adv. Int. Trade (Feb) March 30 March 31 April 01 April 02 April 03 Construct Spending (Feb) CF: N/A Initial Claims (3/28) CF: N/A Nonfarm Payrolls (Mar) CF: -293K ISM Index (Mar) CF: 44.0 Factory Orders (Feb) CF: N/A Private Payrolls (Mar) CF: -420K International Trade (Feb) CF: N/A Unemployment Rate (Mar) CF: 4.0% ISM Non Mfg Index (Mar) CF: N/A DEFINITIONS: A, actual value; PF, previous week’s forecast; CF, current week’s forecast; K, thousand; M, million; B, billion. *The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System provides H.3, H.4.1, and H.6 releases each Thursday and H.10 and H.15 releases each Monday. Forecast data are from Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters, 2012 All Rights Reserved. Use, duplication, or sale of this service or the data contained herein, except as described in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Subscription Agreement, is strictly prohibited. research.stlouisfed.org