Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The Consumer Price Index for February from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.8% increase in CPI, and a 0.5% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 7.9% Year-over-year (YoY), and core CPI to be up 6.4% YoY.
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• At 8:30 AM ET, The Consumer Price Index for February from the BLS. The consensus is for a 0.8% increase in CPI, and a 0.5% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 7.9% Year-over-year (YoY), and core CPI to be up 6.4% YoY.
• Also at 8:30 AM, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for a decrease to 210 thousand from 215 thousand last week.
• At 12:00 PM, Q4 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States from the Federal Reserve.
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 65.2% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 216.4 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3 | 37,879 | 55,018 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3 | 28,090 | 40,581 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3 | 1,161 | 1,683 | ≤502 | |
| 1 Minimum to achieve “herd immunity” (estimated between 70% and 85%). 2my goals to stop daily posts, 37-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.
New cases, hospitalizations and deaths are now declining.