The week ahead in business

Pending home sales; Treasury securities auction; earnings from Capitol Federal, Compass Minerals, EPR Properties, HCA Holdings.

Federal Open Market Committee begins two-day meeting; consumer confidence; S/Case-Shiller housing index; earnings from AMC Entertainment, Epiq Systems, Highwoods Properties, Laclede Group, Panera, Sprint, TomTom, Waddell Reed Financial.

Gross domestic product; farm prices; FOMC meeting announcement; earnings from Euronet Worldwide, Garmin, Phillips 66.

April motor vehicle sales; initial jobless claims; construction spending; personal income and outlays; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Avon, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Cigna, Exxon Mobil, LinkedIn, Motorola Solutions, Quintiles, T-Mobile US, YRC Worldwide.

This story was originally published April 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead in business."