Economic Indicators

Investors will be watching for more retail earnings and home sales numbers

President Biden is reportedly laying the groundwork for another massive spending package that's likely to draw criticism from lawmakers already wary of the nation's already ballooning deficit as Congress moves forward with passing the administration's nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill.

Well-paying blue-collar jobs skyrocketed to numbers not seen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic due to demand for consumer goods, according to EmployBridge workforce analyst Joanie Bily.

Republican Sens. Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton unveiled a proposal on Tuesday to raise the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour by 2025.

The Biden administration announced several changes to the Paycheck Protection Program this week, more strictly limiting which small businesses are eligible to receive forgivable loans through the federal rescue fund. 

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the U.S. economy remains in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, telling Congress during his semi-annual testimony that the outlook is "highly uncertain."

Home prices rose 10.4% year over year in December, according to the national Case-Shiller index, the fastest since January 2014.

House Democrats are on track to pass President Biden's nearly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package by the end of the week as Congress races to provide a fresh round of aid to families and businesses still reeling from the pandemic.  

Utah has an estimated budget surplus of $1.5 billion, even after a year of battling the COVID-19 pandemic that has hurt state tax revenues.

The program, which is overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department, reopened in January after Congress in December authorized its relaunch with $284 billion in funding.

With vaccine rollouts delayed in some places and new virus strains appearing, it is looking more likely that international travel could be stalled for years.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday skewered fossil-fuel billionaires who she said had profited off the surge in prices for fuel as a brutal winter storm across Texas left millions without power.

President Biden's coronavirus aid proposal would allocate nearly $130 billion toward reopening the nation's schools.

President Biden's top economic adviser Brian Deese downplayed a recent report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that found raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour by 2025 would cost the economy about 1.4 million jobs.

 U.S. home sales unexpectedly rose in January despite tight inventories boosting house prices.

A group of House Democrats is calling on the Internal Revenue Service to extend the tax-filing deadline by three months.

Traders will be watching for the latest existing home sales figures

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the country, states are struggling to mitigate the spread of the deadly virus whilst safely reopening their economies. 

While Democrats work on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill to get to President Biden by next month, there are rumblings that another multitrillion-dollar package could follow.

A deadly winter storm continues to leave nearly half a million Texans in the dark, including farmers who are heavily affected by the frigid weather.