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[basserdan]

8:30a Empire State manufacturing index rises to 22.5 in March vs 13.1 in prior month

8:30a U.S. initial jobless claims drop 4,000 to 226,000

8:30a Four-week jobless claims average slips 750 to 221,500

8:30a U.S. import prices climb 0.4% in February

8:30a ??U.S. import prices minus fuel rise 0.5% in February

8:30a Nonfuel imports up 2.1% in past 12 months, most since 2012

8:30a Philly Fed Business Outlook: https://tinyurl.com/y7zzgn23

8:31a Gold adds slightly to early losses after economic reports

[basserdan]

9:45a Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index Actual 56.2 vs Previous 56.8

10:00 Home-builder confidence drops for third month in a row, NAHB says: https://tinyurl.com/ybwd65pr

10:31a EIA reports weekly fall of 93 bln cubic feet in U.S. natural-gas supplies

10:31a April natural gas at $2.704/mln Btus, down from $2.728 before supply data


I'm buying a Powerball ticket
(Or several, or even a thicket),
In hopes I may win
A billion bucks in
The unlikely case that they pick it.

The money on tickets I spent
Undoubtedly wastefully went,
As the odds it's apropos
Work out to point oh-oh-
Oh oh-oh-oh three-four percent.

The lotteries have their detractors,
Who point out, among other factors:
They regressively tax
The shirts from the backs
Of poor and irrational actors.

But what should one say in regards
To those who've considered the odds?
The learned and lettered
Who ought to know better
But still end up wagering wads?

We're not quite as dumb as we seem
To fall for the lottery scheme;
Though remote is the chance,
There's still the romance
That our dollar may buy us a dream.

- Dr Goose