USA
Consumer market
- Jun retail sales up +0.6% from +0.5% in may (better than expect +0.4%)
- Jun retail sales ex-auto up +0.3% from +0.4% in may (worse, +0.5%)
- Jun CPI up +0.7% from 0.6% in May (better +0.6%)
- May business inventory down -1.0% from -1.3% in May (better, -0.8%)
House market
- Jun house start up to 582k from 562k in May (better, 530k)
- Jun building premit up to 563k from 518k in May (better, 524k)
Job market
- 07/11 initial jobless claim down to 522k from 569k last week (better, 553k)
Canada
- Jun existing home sales up 8.7% M/M to 41.3k following the 9.0% M/M up in May and home price up 1.7% Y/Y. The house market looks very strong.
China
- 1H09 GDP up 7.9%, close to 8.0%, one can confirm 90% that China will be able to have 8.0% GDP growth in 2009.
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