08/11/08 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; 04/14 +524 (5 week gain +930)

04/21 +43; 04/28 +166; 05/05 -312; 05/12 +240; 05/19 -496 (5 week loss -358)

05/26 +159; 06/02 -429; 06/09 +96; 06/16 -464; 06/23 -497 (5 week loss -1136)

06/30 -59; 07/07 -188; 07/14 +396; 07/21 -126; 07/28 -46 (5 week loss -23)

08/04 +408; (1 week gain +408) since 09/19/05 DJIA +1174

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

Aug 12 Trade Balance Jun - -$59.0B -$59.8B -
Aug 12 Treasury Budget Jul - NA NA -
Aug 13 Export Prices ex-ag. Jul - NA 0.9% -
Aug 13 Import Prices ex-oil Jul - NA 0.9% -
Aug 13 Retail Sales Jul - 0.4% 0.1% -
Aug 13 Retail Sales ex-auto Jul - 0.7% 0.8% -
Aug 13 Business Inventories Jun - 0.5% 0.3% -
Aug 13 Crude Inventories 08/09 - NA 1614K -
Aug 14 Core CPI Jul - 0.2% 0.3% -
Aug 14 CPI Jul - 0.3% 1.1% -
Aug 14 Initial Claims 08/09 - NA 455K -
Aug 15 NY Empire State Index Aug - NA -4.9 -
Aug 15 Net Foreign Purchases Jun - NA $67.0B -
Aug 15 Capacity Utilization Jul - 79.9% 79.9% -
Aug 15 Industrial Production Jul - 0.1% 0.5% -
Aug 15 Mich Sentiment-Prel. Aug - 63.0 61.2 -

Quarterly Reporting

Aug 12 Applied Materials
Aug 14 Kohl's, Nordstrom, WalMart
Aug 15 JC Penney

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