Market Weekly: Jan 8 Jan 12 2018

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December Producer Price Index: -0.1% M/M vs. +0.2% consensus, +0.4% previous. +2.6% Y/Y.
Core PPI -0.1% M/M vs. +0.2% consensus, +0.3% prior.

Initial Jobless Claims +11K at 261K vs. 245K consensus, 250K prior (unrevised).
Continuous Claims: -35K at 1.867M vs. 1.902M.

Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index jumped to 53.5 from 51.8 last week.
State of the Economy index increased to 55.8 from 53.6.
Personal Finance index landed at 60.2 from 59.4.
Buying Climate index rose to 44.6 from 42.5.