April 22, 2021 Headlines
Treasury prices are slightly lower this morning following a drop in jobless claims. The initial jobless claims number came in at 547,000 vs a median expectation of 610,000. Last week’s level is the lowest since the pandemic hit. Texas and New York led the decline, with Texas seeing a decrease of over 23,000 claims and New York down a little over 17,000 from the prior week. Continuing claims fell by 34,000 to 3.67 million last week.
Hafizan Hamzah
Director, Investment Management Group
Date | Event | Surv(M) | Actual | Prior | Revised |
04/21/21 | MBA Mortgage Applications | — | 8.60% | -3.70% | — |
04/22/21 | Chicago Fed Nat Activity Index | 1.25 | 1.71 | -1.09 | -1.2 |
04/22/21 | Initial Jobless Claims | 610k | 547k | 576k | 586k |
04/22/21 | Continuing Claims | 3650k | 3674k | 3731k | 3708k |
04/22/21 | Langer Consumer Comfort | — | — | 53.9 | — |
04/22/21 | Leading Index | 1.00% | — | 0.20% | — |
04/22/21 | Existing Home Sales | 6.11m | — | 6.22m | — |
04/22/21 | Existing Home Sales MoM | -1.80% | — | -6.60% | — |
04/22/21 | Kansas City Fed Manf. Activity | 28 | — | 26 | — |
04/23/21 | Markit US Manufacturing PMI | 61 | — | 59.1 | — |
04/23/21 | Markit US Services PMI | 61.5 | — | 60.4 | — |
04/23/21 | Markit US Composite PMI | — | — | 59.7 | — |
04/23/21 | New Home Sales | 885k | — | 775k | — |
04/23/21 | New Home Sales MoM | 14.20% | — | -18.20% | — |
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