After the first two days of the week offered very little by way of data and events--a mostly uneventful 3yr Note Auction and a similarly unimportant Import/Export Prices report--the pace quickens considerably on Wednesday and perhaps even peaks.  It's not that markets have been without motivation though...  Europe, as usual of late, has been more than capable of moving the needle, but even so, Tuesday remained something of an odd day in the sense that price/yield movements seemed more random and were less readily attributable even to the unscheduled headlines that would normally take the wheel.

Full Disclosure: that seemingly random market movement could continue right through the next 7 days of "event intensity."  In other words, the upcoming economic events are huge, densely packed, and hotly anticipated.  Those include today's and tomorrow's Treasury auctions, elections in Greece and the G20 summit over the weekend, and the FOMC announcement on the 20th.  All in all (and mostly because of the Greek elections and FOMC Announcement), this 7 day space of time has the most potential for market movement since the most recent spat of political turmoil in Greece.

In addition to the 10yr Note Auction at 1pm, the rest of today's events are no slouches.  Retail Sales at 8:30am is always a potential market mover, and we're definitely more interested in that report than Producer Prices that occupy the same time slot.  Business Inventories prints at 10am, but is at least a full notch lower on the market-movement meter.  Unless major drama ensues in the European session this morning, today's 10yr Auction will be the lowest yielding in history.  

MBS Live Econ Calendar:

Week Of Mon, Jun 11 2012 - Fri, Jun 15 2012

Time

Event

Period

Unit

Forecast

Prior

Actual

Tue, Jun 12

08:30

Export prices mm

May

%

-0.1

-0.5

--

08:30

Import prices mm

May

%

-1.1

-0.5

--

13:00

3-Yr Note Auction

--

--

--

--

--

14:00

Federal budget, $

May

bl

-122.5

+59.12

--

Wed, Jun 13

07:00

Mortgage market index

w/e

--

--

804.8

--

07:00

Mortgage refinance index

w/e

--

--

4476.2

--

08:30

Producer prices mm

May

%

-0.6

-0.2

--

08:30

Producer prices, core mm

May

%

+0.2

+0.2

--

08:30

Producer prices, core yy

May

%

+2.8

+2.7

--

08:30

Retail sales mm

May

%

-0.2

0.1

--

08:30

Retail sales ex-autos mm

May

%

0.0

0.1

--

08:30

PPI inflation yy, NSA

May

%

1.1

1.9

--

10:00

Business inventories mm

Apr

%

+0.3

+0.3

--

13:00

10-yr Note Auction

--

--

--

--

--

Thu, Jun 14

08:30

Core CPI mm,

May

%

+0.2

+0.2

--

08:30

CPI yy,

May

%

+2.2

+2.3

--

08:30

Consumer Prices mm

May

%

-0.2

0.0

--

08:30

Consumer Prices yy

May

%

+1.8

+2.3

--

08:30

Initial Jobless Claims

w/e

k

375

377

--

08:30

Continued jobless claims

w/e

ml

3.27

3.293

--

08:30

Current Account

Q1

$bln

-132.1

-124.11

--

13:00

30-Yr Bond Auction

--

--

--

--

--

Fri, Jun 15

08:30

NY Fed manufacturing

Jun

--

14.0

17.09

--

09:00

Foreign buying, T-bonds

Apr

bl

--

20.47

--

09:00

Overall net capital flows

Apr

bl

--

36.2

--

09:15

Capacity utilization mm

May

%

79.2

79.2

--

09:15

Industrial output mm

May

%

+0.1

+1.1

--

09:55

U.Mich sentiment

Jun

--

77.5

79.3

--

09:55

U Mich conditions

Jun

--

85.3

87.2

--

09:55

U.Mich expectation

Jun

--

71.8

74.3

--

* mm: monthly | yy: annual | qq: quarterly | "w/e" in "period" column indicates a weekly report

* Q1: First Quarter | Adv: Advance Release | Pre: Preliminary Release | Fin: Final Release

* (n)SA: (non) Seasonally Adjusted

* PMI: "Purchasing Managers Index"