Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Chicago PMI

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Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  Initial claims were 205 thousand last week.

• At 9:45 AM: Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for December.

And on COVID (focus on hospitalizations and deaths):

COVID Metrics
  Today Week
Ago
Goal
Percent fully Vaccinated 61.9% ≥70.0%1
Fully Vaccinated (millions) 205.6 ≥2321
New Cases per Day3🚩 277,241 162,133 ≤5,0002
Hospitalized3🚩 64,756 61,570 ≤3,0002
Deaths per Day3 1,085 1,227 ≤502
1 Minimum to achieve "herd immunity" (estimated between 70% and 85%).
2my goals to stop daily posts,
37-day average for Cases, Currently Hospitalized, and Deaths
🚩 Increasing 7-day average week-over-week for Cases, Hospitalized, and Deaths
✅ Goal met.


COVID-19 Positive Tests per DayClick on graph for larger image.

This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of positive tests reported.

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