Econ Calendar

Highlights: None of Tuesday”s reports have a track record of influencing price action. That leaves the market more vulnerable to earnings reactions.

NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
7:30 AM ET

ICSC-Goldman Store Sales
7:45 AM ET

Redbook
8:55 AM ET

3-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

6-Month Bill Auction
11:30 AM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: If Monday”s opening action isn”t volatile, that might foreshadow the balance of the day unless a couple of corporate earnings warnings are made.

Columbus Day
Bond market and Banks closed

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Friday”s single morning econ report has zero track record of influencing price action.

Import and Export Prices
8:30 AM ET

Treasury Budget
2:00 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: The BOE follows last week”s unsurprising ECB statement (although Draghi”s press conference goosed price action). Jobless Claims no longer impacts price action likely it used to. But the 30-year auction might be more controversial at this stage of its pattern.

**Bank of England policy statement
7:00 AM ET

Jobless Claims
8:30 AM ET

Wholesale Trade
10:00 AM ET

EIA Natural Gas Report
10:30 AM ET

**30-Yr Bond Auction
1:00 PM ET

Fed Balance Sheet
4:30 PM ET

Money Supply
4:30 PM ET

A midday look ahead in preparation for economic reports and events scheduled for the next trading day.

Highlights: Wednesday morning”s econ reports have no track record of influencing price action. But the afternoon”s FOMC Minutes are reliably influential, both in inhibiting price action before being released, and then inciting volatility afterward.

MBA Purchase Applications
7:00 AM ET

EIA Petroleum Status Report
10:30 AM ET

10-Yr Note Auction
1:00 PM ET

**FOMC Minutes
2:00 PM ET

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