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US DATA PREVIEW: Updated with more banks: traders await 8:30am ET US August

retail sales, where the MNI poll of economists has a 0.1% median estimate and a

0.5% median for retail sales ex-autos. Here below are some more bank views:

- Morgan Stanley economists expect a 0.7% Aug. retail sales and 0.9% ex-autos.

- Jefferies economists Ward McCarthy and Tom Simons project August retail sales

will be at 0.00% (unchanged) and at +0.4 ex-autos and will be at +0.3% retail

sales control group. (They also expected a 15.0 Sept. Empire Manufacturing

index, vs. prior 25.2 August index; Empire comes out at same time as Aug. retail

sales.)

- Amherst Pierpont's Stephen Stanley expects a 0.2% Aug retail sales and a 0.6%

ex-autos.

- Goldman Sachs expects a -0.1% Aug retail sales report but +0.3% ex-autos. 

- And Credit Suisse economists expect a -0.3% retail sales and a +0.4% ex-autos.

- CIBC economists project a -0.1% retail sales and 0.4% ex-autos. 

- Ntl Bank of Canada: projected a 0.1% retail sales and a 0.4% ex-autos.