Thanks for

joining us today. I'm Julie Morgan host of Wall Street Breakfast,

Seeking Alpha's Daily Flagship Podcast.

This is our weekly show all about the catalyst for the upcoming week.

I'm joined by Kim Khan.

He's the senior executive editor at Seeking Alpha

and the host of our new afternoon show, Wall Street Lunch.

Kim, next week it's that time again to find out about retail sales.

Yeah, I mean, it's finally a quiet week on the economic front as far as at least

Fed watchers are concerned.

We've made it through two big numbers, the

CPI, just today when we're recording and then non-for perils last week without too many

speed bumps into the Fed's plan. So people are going to be pretty confident going into next week that there's nothing that's going to really shake them up.

But it's still a good gauge of where the economy is going and how the consumer is holding up.

We're going to look at seeing how many companies point to

to addverse weather conditions, not sleep and snow this time,

but you know people staying home because it's just so darn hot.

That's out on Tuesday and the next day we have

the latest housing starts and building permits numbers.

That'll give us education on the housing market.

An interesting thing I saw was for Wells Fargo, who's noticed ties the two things together,

saying that an unexpected tailwind for the consumer could be the amount of equity that's built up in people's homes.

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