The week ahead in business

New home sales; earnings from Apple, Caterpillar, DST, Swift Transportation.

Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee begins two-day meeting; durable goods orders; consumer confidence; S/Case-Shiller housing index; earnings from AT, Ford Motor, Lexmark, Pfizer, UMB Financial, Yahoo.

Economic policy announcement from the Fed; earnings from Boeing, Facebook, Phillips 66.

Gross domestic product; initial jobless claims; earnings from Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Google, Harley-Davidson, Time Warner Cable.

This story was originally published January 24, 2014 at 11:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead in business."