—– Monday, December 8th —–
No major economic releases scheduled.
—– Tuesday, December 9th —–
6:00 AM: NFIB Small Business Optimism Index for November.
10:00 AM: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for October from the BLS.
This graph shows job openings (black line), hires (purple), Layoff, Discharges and other (red column), and Quits (light blue column) from the JOLTS.
obs openings increased in August to 7.23 million from 7.21million in July.
The number of job openings (black) were down 6% year-over-year. Quits were down 3% year-over-year.
—– Wednesday, December 10th —–
7:00 AM ET: The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
2:00 PM: FOMC Meeting Announcement. The Fed is expected to cut rates 25bp at this meeting.
2:00 PM: FOMC Forecasts This will include the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participants’ projections of the appropriate target federal funds rate along with the quarterly economic projections.
2:30 PM: Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC announcement.
—– Thursday, December 11th —–
8:30 AM: The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. There were 191,000 initial claims last week.
8:30 AM: Trade Balance report for September from the Census Bureau.
This graph shows the U.S. trade deficit, with and without petroleum, through the most recent report. The blue line is the total deficit, and the black line is the petroleum deficit, and the red line is the trade deficit ex-petroleum products.
The consensus is the trade deficit to be $65.5 billion. The U.S. trade deficit was at $59.6 billion in August.
10:00 AM: the Q3 2025 Housing Vacancies and Homeownership from the Census Bureau.
10:00 AM: State Employment and Unemployment (Monthly) for September 2025
—– Friday, December 12th —–
No major economic releases scheduled.
