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Friday: Personal Income & Outlays, Chicago PMI

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by Calculated Risk on 9/29/2022 09:02:00 PM

Friday:
o At 8:30 AM ET, Personal Income and Outlays, August 2022 and Annual Update The consensus is for a 0.3% increase in personal income, and for a 0.2% increase in personal spending. And for the Core PCE price index to increase 0.5%. PCE prices are expected to be up 6.0% YoY, and core PCE prices up 4.8% YoY.

o At 9:45 AM, Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for September. The consensus is for a reading of 52.0, down from 52.2 in August.

o At 10:00 AM, University of Michigan’s Consumer sentiment index (Final for September). The consensus is for a reading of 59.5.

On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):

COVID MetricsNowWeekAgoGoalNew Cases per Day247,11254,201<=5,0001Hospitalized223,40125,449<=3,0001Deaths per Day2343368<=5011my goals to stop daily posts,27-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths? Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths
? Goal met.

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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of deaths reported.

NOTE: Cases have declined by more than half, and deaths lag cases – so we might see average daily deaths in the 200s soon (better, but still too high).
Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.

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