Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales Seen Down -- Data Week Ahead Update

The following are median forecasts for this week's remaining U.S. data from a survey compiled by The Wall Street Journal.

 
DATE      TIME  RELEASE                       PERIOD     CONSENSUS    PREVIOUS 
Tuesday   0830  Housing Starts                 Mar        1.48M  (25) 1.521M 
                  -- percent change            Mar       -2.7%        +10.7% 
          0830  Building Permits               Mar        1.51M  (17)  1.518M 
                  -- percent change            Mar       -0.5%        +1.9% 
          0915  Industrial Production          Mar       +0.4%   (25) +0.1% 
          0915  Capacity Utilization           Mar        78.5%  (20)  78.3% 
Thursday  0830  Jobless Claims                 Apr 13     215K   (19)  211K 
          0830  Phila Fed Mfg Survey           Apr        2.5    (17)  3.2 
          1000  Existing Home Sales            Mar        4.17M  (24) 4.38M 
                  -- percent change            Mar       -4.8%        +9.5% 
          1000  Leading Index                  Mar       -0.1%   (17) +0.1% 
 
(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.) 
 
Write to Donna Huneke at dataweekahead@wsj.com 

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