Sunday, July 7, 2013

Sunday Night Futures

Monday:
• Early: The LPS May Mortgage Monitor report. This is a monthly report of mortgage delinquencies and other mortgage data.

• Early: Reis Q2 2013 Office Survey of rents and vacancy rates.

• At 3:00 PM ET, Consumer Credit for May from the Federal Reserve. The consensus is for credit to increase $13.0 billion in May.

Weekend:
Schedule for Week of July 7th

Over in Europe from Reuters: Greece, foreign lenders close in on deal to unlock aid
Greece is likely to reach a deal with foreign lenders on its latest bailout review before a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on Monday to decide on further aid, EU and Greek officials said on Sunday.
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Greece hopes euro zone finance ministers will free up its next 8.1 billion-euro ($10.4 billion) tranche of aid when they meet on Monday ...
The Asian markets are green tonight with the Nikkei up 1.1%.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: the S&P futures are up 6 and DOW futures are up 53 (fair value).

Oil prices have increased recently with WTI futures at $103.91 per barrel and Brent at $108.00 per barrel. The spread between WTI and Brent has narrowed significantly.

Below is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices have fallen 15 cents per gallon over the last three weeks to almost $3.49 per gallon. Based on Brent prices and the calculator at Econbrowser, I expect gasoline prices to move up a 5 cents if oil prices stay steady.

If you click on "show crude oil prices", the graph displays oil prices for WTI, not Brent; gasoline prices in most of the U.S. are impacted more by Brent prices.



Orange County Historical Gas Price Charts Provided by GasBuddy.com

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