04/14/08 Market Influence & History

DJIA week beginning:

07/16 -55, 07/23 -594, 07/30 -83, 08/06 +59; 08/13 -160 (5 week loss -833)

08/20 +300, 08/27 -22, 09/03 -244, 09/10 +329, 09/17 +377 (5 week gain +740)

09/24 +77, 10/01 +171, 10/08 +27, 10/15 -572, 10/22 +293 (5 week loss -4)

10/29 -212, 11/05 -553, 11/12 +127, 11/19 -196, 11/26 +391 (5 week loss -443)

12/03 +254, 12/10 -286, 12/17 +109, 12/24 -85 12/31 -566, (5 week loss -574)

01/07 -193, 01/14 -507, 01/21 +108; 01/28 +537; 02/04 -561 (5 week loss -616)

02/11 +166, 02/18 +33, 02/25 -115, 03/03 -370, 03/10 +56 (5 week loss -230)

03/17 +410; 03/24 -145; 03/31 +396; 04/07 -255 (3 week gain +406) since 09/19/05 DJIA +1748

Looking ahead at potential market influences:
Date Event Period Est. Prior

Apr 14 Retail Sales Mar - 0.4% -0.6% -
Apr 14 Retail Sales ex-auto Mar - 0.7% -0.2% -
Apr 14 Business Inventories Feb - 0.7% 0.8% -
Apr 15 PPI Mar - 0.4% 0.3% -
Apr 15 Core PPI Mar - 0.1% 0.5% -
Apr 15 NY Empire State Index Apr - -17.0 -22.2 -
Apr 15 TIC Net Foreign Purchases Feb - NA $62.0B -
Apr 16 CPI Mar - 0.3% 0.0% -
Apr 16 Core CPI Mar - 0.2% 0.0% -
Apr 16 Housing Starts Mar - 1015K 1065K -
Apr 16 Building Permits Mar - 975K 984K -
Apr 16 Industrial Production Mar - 0.1% -0.5% -
Apr 16 Capacity Utilization Mar - 80.4% 80.4% -
Apr 16 Crude Inventories 04/12 - NA NA -
Apr 16 Fed's Beige Book - - - - -
Apr 17 Initial Claims 04/12 - 385K 357K -
Apr 17 Leading Indicators Mar - 0.2% -0.3% -
Apr 17 Philadelphia Fed Apr - -13.0 -17.4 -

Quarterly Reporting

Apr 15 WaMu, Intel, JnJ
Apr 16 Ebay, IBM, JPMorganChase, Coca Cola; Wells Fargo
Apr 17 AMD, Capital One, CIT, Etrade, Google, Merrill Lynch, Nokia
Apr 18 Caterpillar, Citigroup, Honeywell, Wachovia, Xerox

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