{"id":19188,"date":"2012-06-04T08:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=19188"},"modified":"2016-09-20T20:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T00:58:08","slug":"economic-reports-what-you-need-to-know-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/04\/economic-reports-what-you-need-to-know-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Reports: What You Need to Know This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately it is a rather slow week for data in the U.S. &#8211; especially as compared to last week. Monday will start off with an important report on factory orders. That was the one area of brightness in last week&#8217;s ISM manufacturing report.<\/p>\n<p>Even though there are not many reports, the ISM Non-Manufacturing (service) gauge will be released on Tuesday and that is an important data point as service is what the U.S. economy is all about <!--more-->these days.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations are for 53.5, no change from the previous month. If we get anything below 52.5, markets could be miffed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eco-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19198\" title=\"eco\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/eco-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"609\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, Fed&#8217;s Bernanke Testifies to U.S. Lawmakers on the economic outlook. That is always fun.<\/p>\n<p>Jobs numbers will be watched as last week&#8217;s<a title=\"Economic Conditions: The NFP Employment Number Preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/economic-conditions-the-nfp-employment-number-preview\/\"><strong> initial claims were above the 4-week moving average<\/strong><\/a>. Watch for consumer credit to expand at a slower pace as the last few months saw serious expansion. Consumers are spending, but wages are not keeping pace with purchases and the addition of credit may drop as <a title=\"Consumer Confidence  What to Make of it?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/consumer-confidence-what-to-make-of-it\/\"><strong>consumer confidence has come down<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy?<br \/>\nClick below for the virtual tour&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/mailbox\/tdi-investment-fund\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/TDIMG-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortunately it is a rather slow week for data in the U.S. &#8211; especially as compared to last week. Monday will start off with an important report on factory orders. That was the one area of brightness in last week&#8217;s ISM manufacturing report. Even though there are not many reports, the ISM Non-Manufacturing (service) gauge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-19188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}