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The Week Ahead Canada & U.S.: U.S. CPI, Retail Sales and Consumer Sentiment
The U.S. economy will continue to struggle between slowing growth and
rising inflation. According to economists and strategists, markets will
focus on U.S. advance retail sales, July CPI and the University of
Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment.
U.S. markets will also receive U.S. trade balance, IBD/TIPP economic
optimism, and industrial production and capacity utilization.
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Inflation Concerns Rise Among U.S. Small Business Owners in June
Inflation has become the number one concern among
small business owners, according to the National
Federation of Independent Business Index of Small Business Optimism
released on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s Events: U.S. Producer Prices, Fed’s Kohn, Cdn Wholesales
U.S. producer prices, IBD/TIPP Economic Optimism and comments from Fed
Vice-Chairman Donald Kohn will highlight the U.S. economic data front,
while Canadian markets receive international securities transactions and
wholesale sales.
At 7:45 a.m. EDT, ICSC will release chain store sales for the week
ending May 17. In the previous week, sales were up 0.5% year-over-
year.
At 8:30 a.m. EDT, the Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the
producer prices index for April…