MNI Survey of US Economic Forecasts: Apr 1 - Apr 2

                       Apr 1    Apr 1        Apr 1     Apr 1   Apr 1      Apr 2

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                               Retail                                   Durable

                      Retail    Sales     Business    Constr     ISM  Goods New

                       Sales  Ex-Auto  Inventories  Spending  Manufg     Orders

Data For                 Feb      Feb          Jan       Feb     Mar        Feb

Denomination            % Ch     % Ch         % Ch      % Ch   Index       % Ch

Median Forecast **       0.3      0.4          0.4       0.1    54.6       -1.6

High Forecast            0.5      0.6          0.5       1.0    56.0        0.3

Low Forecast            -0.4     -0.2         -0.3      -0.8    53.3       -3.1

Mean                     0.2      0.3          0.3       0.0    54.6       -1.4

Standard Deviation       0.2      0.2          0.2       0.5     0.8        0.9

No. of Responses          20       17            8        10      19         16

Amherst Pierpont         0.3      0.5           NA        NA    55.1       -1.7

BofA/Merrill Lynch       0.1      0.1           NA       0.4      NA         NA

Bank of the West         0.3      0.5          0.3      -0.3    54.0       -1.8

Capital Economics        0.2      0.4           NA        NA    54.5       -1.8

CIBC                     0.4      0.6           NA        NA    53.9       -3.1

Credit Agricole           NA       NA           NA        NA    55.0       -1.0

Deka                     0.2      0.4         -0.3       1.0    54.0         NA

FT Advisors              0.3      0.4          0.5       0.1    54.6        0.0

Global Insight           0.4      0.4          0.4      -0.3    53.3       -2.0

HSBC                     0.5       NA           NA        NA      NA       -0.5

High Frequency           0.3      0.4           NA      -0.2    54.2       -1.0

ING Group               -0.2      0.1           NA        NA    55.7       -2.0

J.P. Morgan              0.4       NA          0.2       0.1    54.1       -1.0

Market Securities        0.3      0.3           NA        NA    55.9        0.3

MUFG Union Bank          0.0      0.4           NA        NA    53.5       -0.5

Pantheon Macro           0.1       NA           NA        NA    56.0         NA

RBC                      0.3      0.3           NA        NA    56.0         NA

Standard Chartered       0.2      0.3           NA        NA    54.5       -2.2

Stone McCarthy          -0.4     -0.2          0.4       0.0    54.7       -1.5

TD Securities            0.2      0.2          0.5      -0.8    54.6       -1.9

Umaryland                0.4      0.6          0.1       0.1    54.7         NA

** Note: The survey median is compiled solely from the forecasts listed above

and is not intended to represent a market consensus.

--MNI Washington Bureau; +1 (973) 494-2611; email: harrison.clarke@marketnews.com

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