Highlights
Weekly jobless claims and Q1 productivity & costs reports are due at 8:30 am ET. Expectations for claims call for 212K, down from 215K last week. Unit labor costs are expected unrevised at 2.3 percent growth while productivity is expected revised to 0.7 percent from 0.8 percent in the last report.
Definition
Market Focus details key factors in the coming day that will impact the economic outlook and the financial markets. These include central bank events, economic indicators, policymaker speeches as well as expected political and corporate developments.
Description
Keeping up-to-date with event schedules and the economic calendar is key to understanding the global financial system. Econoday's Market Focus allows investors and policymakers to carefully track what will be making news and moving the financial markets in the coming day.