Important economic events this week, March 3–8:
Monday, March 3, 2025
17:45 – Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector (February)
Forecast: 51.6
Previous: 51.2
18:00 – Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) from ISM for the manufacturing sector (February)
Forecast: 50.8
Previous: 50.9
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
16:15 – Change in Nonfarm Payrolls from ADP (February)
Previous: 183K
17:45 – Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the services sector (February)
Forecast: 49.7
Previous: 52.9
18:00 – Non-manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for the U.S. from ISM (February)
Forecast: 53.0
Previous: 52.8
18:30 – Crude Oil Inventories
Previous: -2.332M
Thursday, March 6, 2025
16:30 – Initial Jobless Claims
Previous: 242K
Friday, March 7, 2025
16:30 – Average Hourly Earnings (m/m) (February)
Forecast: 0.3%
Previous: 0.5%
16:30 – Change in Nonfarm Payrolls (February)
Forecast: 133K
Previous: 143K
16:30 – Unemployment Rate (February)
Forecast: 4.0%
Previous: 4.0%
19:00 – FOMC Monetary Policy Report
20:30 – Speech by Fed Chair Jerome Powell