Today's Economic Calendar
FOMC meeting begins
6:00 NFIB Small Business Optimism Index
8:30 Consumer Price Index
8:55 Redbook Chain Store Sales
1:00 PM Results of $14B, 30-Year Note Auction
2:00 PM Treasury Budget
Today's Markets
In Asia, Japan +0.3%. Hong Kong +0.1%. China +0.9%. India +0.6%.
In Europe, at midday, London -0.3%. Paris -0.2%. Frankfurt flat.
Futures at 6:20, Dow flat. S&P flat. Nasdaq flat. Crude +0.3% to $66.29. Gold -0.1% to $1302.40. Bitcoin -0.5% to $6843.
Ten-year Treasury Yield flat at 2.96%
If his morals are well below average
And his instinct’s to rampage and ravage,
It becomes understandable
Why one calls him an animal –
Or subhuman or beastly or savage.
- F.R. Duplantier
Dan