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Welcome to our Economic Indicators page. We have created a brief report on how the financial markets typically react to the release of economic indicators and news plus a comprehensive economic indicator glossary, complete with terms and definitions. We believe it is important for our subscribers to know and understand economic terminology. Comprehension is vital when interpreting economic news and analysis and its potential impact on mortgage interest rates. To see a definition of a term, click on the term and a hyperlink will take you to the definition of interest.

Report: How Markets React To Economic Indicators

Economic Indicators Glossary of Terms
Auto Sales	Housing Market Index
Balance of Payments	Housing Starts/Building Permits
Balance of Trade (Merchandise Trade Balance)	Implicit Deflator
Beige Book	Import Price Index
Business Inventories and Sales	Index of Leading Economic Indicators (LEI)
Capital Account / Financial Account	Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Chain Store Sales	Institute for Supply Management
Chicago PMI	International Trade
Construction Spending	Jobless Claims (Initial)
Consumer Confidence	Money Supply
Consumer Credit	Mortgage Applications Survey
Consumer Price Index (CPI)	National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM)
Consumer Sentiment Index (University of Michigan)	New Home Sales
Current Account	Personal Income and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)
Durable Goods Orders	Philadelphia Fed Index
Empire State Index	Producer Price Index (PPI)
Employment Cost Index (ECI)	Productivity
Employment Report	Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI)
Existing Home Sales	Retail Sales
Factory Orders and Manufacturing Inventories	Wholesale Trade
FOMC Meeting
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
GDP Chain Deflator
Help-Wanted Index


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