Economic Events on April 13, 2010

At 7:45 AM EDT, the weekly ICSC-Goldman Store Sales report will be released, giving an update on the health of the consumer through this analysis of retail sales.

At 8:30 AM EDT, the International Trade report for February will be released.  The consensus is a deficit of $39 billion, which would be a increase of $1.7 billion over January.  Weaker oil prices in that month are expected to be offset by increases in consumer spending and corporate investments.

At 8:55 AM EDT, the weekly Redbook report will be released, giving us more information about consumer spending.

Also at 8:30 AM EDT, the monthly Import and Export Prices index for March will be released, providing some data that can be used to monitor the threat of inflation.

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