Housing Starts and Existing Home Sales on Tap -- Data Week Ahead Update

Dow Jones
Aug 19, 2025

The following are median forecasts for this week's remaining U.S. data from a survey compiled by The Wall Street Journal.

 
DATE      TIME  RELEASE                       PERIOD     CONSENSUS    PREVIOUS 
Tuesday   0830  Housing Starts                 Jul        1.29M  (22)  1.321M 
                  -- percent change            Jul       -2.3%        +4.6% 
          0830  Building Permits               Jul        1.39M  (14)  1.397M 
                  -- percent change            Jul       -0.5%        +0.2% 
Thursday  0830  Jobless Claims                 Aug 16     225K   (16)  224K 
          0830  Phila Fed Mfg Svy              Aug        7.0    (13)  15.9 
          0945  S&P Global Flash U.S. Mfg PMI  Aug        49.5   (7)   49.8* 
          0945  S&P Global Flash U.S. Svcs PMI Aug        55.0   (6)   55.7* 
          1000  Existing Home Sales            Jul        3.91M  (20)  3.93M 
                  -- percent change            Jul       -0.5%        -2.7% 
          1000  Leading Index                  Jul       -0.1%   (13) -0.3% 
 
*End-July Reading 
 
(Figures in parentheses refer to number of economists surveyed.) 
 
Write to Tim Merle at dataweekahead@wsj.com 

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August 18, 2025 14:00 ET (18:00 GMT)

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