More Support for 2024 Rate Cuts – Retail Sales Fall More than Expected

Table of Contents:

  1. Market Moving Headlines

  2. Economic Calendar – Week of February 19th, 2024

  3. Interest Rates

  4. Currencies

  5. Commodities

  6. Quote of the Week

     


Market Moving Headlines

  • US retail sales fall more than expected.

  • US jobless claims unexpectedly fall.

  • US import prices rise the most in nearly two years.

  • US export prices unexpectedly rebound in January.

  • The Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index in the US unexpectedly rebounds in February.

  • Canada manufacturing sales drop more than expected.

  • US industrial production unexpectedly falls.

  • US capacity utilization the lowest since 2021.

  • US homebuilder sentiment at a 6-month high.

  • Total business inventories in the US rose by 0.4% month-over-month in December, 2023.

     


Economic Calendar – Week of February 19th, 2024

 


Interest Rates

 

 

 


Currencies

 

Commodities

 


Quote of the Week

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt


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