MONDAY: Treasury securities auction; housing market index.

TUESDAY: Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meets; housing starts; ICSC-Goldman Sachs store sales; earnings from Adobe Systems.

WEDNESDAY: FOMC policy announcement and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s news conference; earnings from Cintas.

THURSDAY: Initial jobless claims; existing home sales; leading economic indicators; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Ross Stores.

FRIDAY: Earnings from KB Home, Tiffany.