Wednesday: GDP, Existing Home Sales
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Wednesday:
• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
• At 8:30 AM, Gross Domestic Product, 3rd quarter 2021 (Third estimate). The second estimate of GDP was 2.1%.
• Also at 8:30 AM, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for November. This is a composite index of other data.
• At 10:00 AM, Existing Home Sales for November from the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The consensus is for 6.20 million SAAR, down from 6.34 million. Housing economist Tom Lawler expects the NAR to report sales of 6.45 million SAAR for November.
From CR on COVID (mostly focus on hospitalizations and deaths, although new cases are rising rapidly):
| COVID Metrics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Week Ago |
Goal | ||
| Percent fully Vaccinated | 61.6% | — | ≥70.0%1 | |
| Fully Vaccinated (millions) | 204.6 | — | ≥2321 | |
| New Cases per Day3🚩 | 149,331 | 119,281 | ≤5,0002 | |
| Hospitalized3🚩 | 60,907 | 58,452 | ≤3,0002 | |
| Deaths per Day3🚩 | 1,188 | 1,148 | ≤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. |
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This graph shows the daily (columns) and 7-day average (line) of cases reported.
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December 21, 2021 at 07:48PM
