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Economic indicators
3 guides in Finabase Learn
- Consumer Confidence Survey measures of how households feel about the economy and their finances, such as the Conference Board and Michigan indexes.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) A monthly BLS measure of the average change in prices urban consumers pay for a basket of goods and services; the main US inflation gauge.
- The economic calendar: when US data come out and how to read them When the jobs report, CPI, GDP, retail sales and FOMC decisions are released, who publishes them, and how to read the consensus, actual and prior columns.
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