Wednesday:
• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
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• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
• 10:00 AM, Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for May from the BLS. Jobs openings decreased in April to 11.400 million from 11.855 million in March.
• Also at 10:00 AM, the ISM Services Index for June. The consensus is for a reading of 54.5, down from 55.9.
• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Minutes, Meeting of June 14-15, 2022
On COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Now | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 66.9% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 222.3 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3 | 94,345 | 113,184 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3 | 23,459 | 26,162 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3 | 295 | 340 | ≤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.
Average daily deaths bottomed in July 2021 at 214 per day.