Recent Key Economic Indicators: May 11-15
Release Date		Economic Indicator/Event	Data for Period	Units	Current	Prior
United States
May 11		Existing Home Sales	Apr	Mlns	4.02	4.01
May 12		NFIB Small Business Optimism	Apr	Index	95.9	95.8
May 12		Consumer Price Index	Apr	Y/Y % Chg.	3.8	3.3
May 12		Consumer Price Index	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.6	0.9
May 12		Core Consumer Price Index	Apr	Y/Y % Chg.	2.8	2.6
May 12		Core Consumer Price Index	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.4	0.2
May 13		PPI Ex Food and Energy	Apr	M/M % Chg.	1.0	0.2
May 13		PPI Final Demand	Apr	M/M % Chg.	1.4	0.7
May 14		Initial Jobless Claims	May 9	Thsd	211.0	199.0
May 14		Retail Sales Advance	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.5	1.6
May 14		Retail Sales Ex Auto and Gas	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.5	0.7
May 14		Business Inventories	Mar	M/M % Chg.	0.9	0.4
May 15		Empire Manufacturing	May	Index	19.6	11.0
May 15		Capacity Utilization	Apr	%	76.1	75.7
May 15		Industrial Production	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.7	-0.3
May 15		Manufacturing (SIC) Production	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.6	0.1
Canada
May 14		Existing Home Sales	Apr	M/M % Chg.	0.7	-0.1
May 14		Wholesale Sales ex Petroleum	Mar	M/M % Chg.	1.9	2.4
May 15		Housing Starts	Apr	Thsd	279.3	239.7
May 15		Manufacturing Sales	Mar	M/M % Chg.	3.0	3.4
International
May 13	EZ	Employment	Q1	Y/Y % Chg.	0.5	0.7
May 13	EZ	Gross Domestic Product SA	Q1	Y/Y % Chg.	0.8	0.8
May 14	UK	Gross Domestic Product	Q1	Y/Y % Chg.	1.1	1.0
Source: Bloomberg, TD Economics.