At 8:30 AM EDT, the Employment Cost Index for the second quarter of 2010 will be announced.  The consensus is an increase of 0.4%, which would be a decline of 0.2% compared to the first quarter of 2010.
Also at 8:30 AM EDT, the advance GDP report for the second quarter of 2010 [...]

At 8:30 AM EDT, the U.S. government will release its weekly Jobless Claims report.  The consensus is that there were 460,000 new jobless claims last week, which would would be an slight decrease in claims from last week’s number.
At 10:30 AM EDT, the [...]

The Mortgage Bankers’ purchase index was released at 7:00 AM EDT, and there was a week to week increase of 2.0% in the Purchase Index and a week to week decrease of 5.9% in the Refinance Index as the housing market showed a slight [...]

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 8:55 AM EDT, the weekly Redbook report will be released, giving us more [...]

U.S. stocks surged last week following yet another strong batch of earnings.
Earnings results from heavy weights such as Caterpillar (CAT), 3M (MMM), UPS (UPS) and AT&T (T) all topped earnings estimates and raised their outlooks.
Some economists pointed to data that seemed to show some weakness. Weekly jobless claims jumped, but it may have been due [...]

At 10:00 AM EDT, the New Home Sales report for June will be released.  The consensus is that 310,000 new homes were sold last month, which would be an increase of 10,000 from May, which was the lowest level on record.
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For those folks looking to refinance or purchase, the news on Wednesday continues to be nothing but positive.

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported that their refinancing index jumped 8.6% in the July 16 week, making for a nearly 30% gain over the past four weeks. The average 30-year mortgage fell 10 basis points in the [...]

At 8:30 AM EDT, the U.S. government will release its weekly Jobless Claims report.  The consensus is that there were 450,000 new jobless claims last week, which would would be an increase of about 20,000 claims from last week’s unexpectedly low number.
At 9:30 AM EDT, Ben [...]

The Mortgage Bankers’ purchase index was released at 7:00 AM EDT, and there was a week to week increase of 3.4% in the Purchase Index and a week to week increase of 8.6% in the Refinance Index as the housing market showed a slight improvement from the [...]

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 Housing Starts report for June will be released.  The consensus is that construction on [...]