Preview: Due September 16 - U.S. August Retail Sales - Autos to slip, but core rates to maintain trend

September 15, 2025 12:16 PM UTC

We expect a modest 0.2% increase in August retail sales restrained by a correction lower in auto sales. However we expect the core rates ex autos and ex autos and gasoline to maintain trend with gains of 0.4%. 

Preview: Due September 23 - U.S. Q2 Current Account - Correction from record pre-tariff deficit

September 12, 2025 1:22 PM UTC

We expect a Q2 US current account deficit of $256bn, down from the record $450.2bn in Q1, when imports surged in anticipation of tariffs, before correcting sharply lower in Q2. Q2’s deficit would then be the lowest since Q4 2023. As a proportion of GDP the deficit would be 3.4%, down from 6.0% in

FOMC Preview for September 17: 25bps Easing on Increased Labor Market Risk

September 12, 2025 10:30 AM UTC

The FOMC meets on September 17 and we expect a 25bps easing to a 4.0-4.25% Fed Funds target range. The FOMC will continue to see similar upside risks to inflation but increased downside risks to the Labor Market. The dots are likely to continue to expect only one more move in 2025, but three moves i

Preview: Due September 25 - U.S. August Durable Goods Orders - Correcting lower

September 10, 2025 1:57 PM UTC

We expect August durable goods orders to fall by 1.0% in a third straight fall, though still not fully reversing a surge of 16.6% in May, while ex transport orders fall by 0.5% in a correction from a 1.0% July increase, that was the strongest of three straight gains.

Preview: Due September 11 - U.S. August CPI - Tariff impact slowly building

September 10, 2025 1:15 PM UTC

We expect August CPI to increase by 0.4% overall and by 0.3% ex food and energy, with the respective gains before rounding being 0.37% and 0.31%. This would be the second straight gains slightly above 0.3% in the core rate with the impact of tariffs starting to escalate.

UK CPI Preview (Sep 17): Goods Inflation the Recent Problem, Not Services?

September 10, 2025 9:05 AM UTC

After the upside (and broad) June CPI surprise, CPI inflation rose further, up another 0.2 ppt to 3.8% in July, higher than the consensus but matching BoE thinking. Partly due to rounding and fuel (and possibly food) costs, we see the headline rising a notch to 3.9% in the August figure, this foresh

Bank of Canada Preview for September 17: Weak data justifies resumption of easing

September 9, 2025 6:26 PM UTC

After the Bank of Canada’s last meeting on July 30 we expected rates to be left on hold in September before easing resumed in October. However with data since that meeting having been mostly weak, a 25bps easing, the first move since March, now looks likely at the September 17 meeting, to 2.5%. We

Preview: Due September 24 - U.S. August New Home Sales - Stable trend, downside risk

September 9, 2025 2:58 PM UTC

We expect an August new home sales level of 625k, which would be a 4.1% decline if July’s 0.6% decline to 652k is unrevised. The level would be the lowest since October 2023. Trend has been fairly stable but the NAHB survey suggests there may be some near term downside risk. 

U.S. March 2025 Non-Farm Payroll Benchmark Revised Down by a Preliminary 911k

September 9, 2025 2:32 PM UTC

The preliminary estimate for the downward revision to the March 2025 non-farm payroll benchmark at -911k is steeper than generally than expected and exceeds even the unusually sharp 818k negative revision reported a year ago for the March 2024 benchmark. The data will be incorporated into the Januar

Preview: Due September 10 - U.S. August PPI - A moderate gain after a surge in July

September 9, 2025 12:40 PM UTC

We expect August PPI to rise by 0.3% overall and 0.2% ex food and energy, moderate gains after shocking surges of 0.9% in each series in July, which broke a string of mostly subdued outcomes from February through June. Ex food, energy and trade, we expect a 0.3% increase to follow a 0.6% rise in Jul

Preview: Due September 23 - U.S. August Existing Home Sales - Slightly weaker for sales and prices

September 8, 2025 7:12 PM UTC

We expect August existing home sales to slip by 2.5% to 3.91m to resume a modestly negative trend after a 2.0% increase in July. This would take the level to its lowest since September 2024.

Expecting a Negative Non-Farm Payroll Benchmark Revision

September 8, 2025 3:25 PM UTC

Tuesday sees the release of the preliminary Labor Dep’t estimate for the March 2025 non-farm payroll benchmark, with expectations for a significant negative, possibly as large as the -818k preliminary estimate for the March 2024 benchmark delivered a year ago. The eventual revision to March 2024 p

Preview: Due September 17 - U.S. August Housing Starts and Permits - Subdued with little direction

September 5, 2025 2:47 PM UTC

We expect August housing starts to fall by 6.2% to 1340k, correcting two straight gains of over 5.0%, while permits fall by a marginal 0.1% to 1360k. 

Preview: Due September 16 - U.S. August Retail Sales - Autos to slip, but core rates to maintain trend

September 4, 2025 6:53 PM UTC

We expect a modest 0.2% increase in August retail sales restrained by a correction lower in auto sales. However we expect the core rates ex autos and ex autos and gasoline to maintain trend with gains of 0.4%. 

Preview: Due September 5 - U.S. August Employment (Non-Farm Payrolls) - Similar to July's, still not recessionary

September 4, 2025 2:45 PM UTC

We expect August’s non-farm payroll to look similar to July’s, with a rise of 65k versus 73k in July, above the 14k rise of June and the 19k rise of May but well below the trend that was running above 100k through April. We also expect unemployment to remain at July’s 4.2% rate and a second st

Preview: Due September 4 - U.S. August ADP Employment - Slower than July which corrected a June decline

September 3, 2025 12:23 PM UTC

We expect a rise of 60k in August’s ADP estimate for private sector employment growth. This would be a slowing from 104k in July which outperformed the non-farm payroll, with July’s improved data looking in part corrective from a 23k decline in June.