The Federal Reserve's meeting on Wednesday dominates this week's agenda, but there are a handful of other items.
Today, for instance, brings the New York Fed's Empire Manufacturing index at 8:30 a.m. ET. Economists expect a reading of 16, up from 14.7 in August.
Industrial production and capacity utilization for August follow at 9:15 a.m. ET. Estimates call for production to have grown 0.3 percent, compared with the previous month's 0.4 percent gain. Utilization is expected to show an increase to 79.3 percent from 79.2 percent.
Tomorrow's agenda includes Germany's Zew economic-sentiment index. producer prices for the United States and earnings from Adobe Systems in the afternoon.
Wednesday starts with weekly mortgage data and the consumer-price index, along with earnings from FedEx, General Mills, and Lennar. The NAHB homebuilder index comes out shortly after the opening bell, but the main item is the Fed meeting in the afternoon. Investors are mostly worried that policy-makers will signal a desire to raise interest rates.
Thursday busy as well, with initial jobless claims, housing starts, and building permits and the Philadelphia Fed's regional index. ConAgra and Rite Aid report in the morning. Oracle, Red Hat, and Tibco Software follow in the afternoon.
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