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Week of May 15 - Economic Indicators and Industry Metrics

US Economic Calendar/Indicators Global Industry By the Numbers
Date Data Release Period Curr. Prev.
5/15 NY State Mfg. Index May 12.4 15.8
5/15 Foreign Purchase of US Securities Mar $69.8B $86.9B
5/16 Building Permits Apr 1.98M 2.09M
5/16 Housing Starts Apr 1.85M 1.96M
5/16 PPI/Wholesale Prices Apr 0.9% 0.5%
5/16 Capacity Utilization Apr 81.9% 81.4%
5/16 Industrial Production Apr 0.8% 0.6%
5/17 CPI Apr 0.6% 0.4%
5/18 Initial Claims 5/13 - 324K
5/18 Conf. Board Leading Indicators Apr - -0.1%

Higher/Lower From Prev. Period

48 mil.
Unique visitors to MySpace in April
53 mil.
Verizon total customers
1.6 mil.
Vonage VoIP phone  subscribers
$80.47 bil 
Wal-Mart's Apr'06 quarterly revenue
$21.46 bil
Home Depot Apr'06 quarterly revenue 
$22.55 bil
HP's Apr'06 quarterly revenue
$10.5mil.
Latest round VC investment in Photobucket
$8.5 mil.
VC funding for Toodou.com, a podcasting Web site
$25 mil.
Latest round VC investment  in Facebook
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