Housing Starts
Relevance: This is an important release. (4) Scale Of 1-5
Source: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
Scheduled Release Time: Normally around 16th of the month for
data from the previous month at 8:30 ET .

Housing and Building Permits indictor is the measure of how many residential units have started construction. As a permit normally needs to be issued before excavation begins then the number of permit can be measured each month.

There is often an increase in the number of permits issued after a decrease in the mortgage rate. Permit are however not required in all states. The report is broken down into region - Northeast, Midwest, South, and West.

PPI
Relevance: This is important. (4) Scale of 1-5
Source: U.S. Department of Labor,Bureau of Labor statistics.
Scheduled Release Time: Information on the previous month
released at 8:30 ET around the 11th of every month

Producer Price Index measures prices of goods at the wholesale level. The three main categories that make up the PPI are: crude, intermediate, and finished, the most important of which is the finished goods index. This is the price of goods that are ready for sale to the user.

Retail Sales
Relevance: This is an important release. (5) Scale Of 1-5
Source: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
Scheduled Release Time: Normally around 13th of the month at 8:30 ET .

This release measures the total receipts of retail stores. This particular indictor is always widely followed as a good indictor of consumer spending patterns. A change plus or minus in the Retails Sales is often a result of the components of the report changing in price as opposed to actual changes in consumer spending habits.

Trade Balance
Relevance: This is of some interest. (3) Scale Of 1-5
Source: The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce & Bureau
of Economic Analysis.
Scheduled Release Time: Data for two month previous, normally
released at 8:30 ET on the 20th of the month.

Can give an early clue to the performance of exports. Mainly watched for trends in the export/import of goods. If the export are increasing then it could indicate a strengthening in the US position in particular markets. Growing imports could mean more demand in the domestic market.