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Small Business Optimism Index

Small Business Optimism Index http://www.nfib-sbet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/SBET-July-2018.pdf

Producer Price Index • MoM Change of -0.1% (survey was +0.2%) • YoY Change of 2.8% (survey was 3.2%) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ppi.pdf

Consumer Price Index https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cpi.pdf CPI excl. Food and Energy up 0.1%

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Retail Sales • MoM increase of just 0.1% below expectations of 0.4% • YoY increased by 6.6%, this is the 4 th consecutive month above 6%. • Nonstore retailers up 10.4% YoY and account for 10.7% of sales https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf

Inventories https://www.census.gov/mtis/www/data/pdf/mtis_current.pdf

4.4%