Week Ahead: Federal Reserve meeting starts Tuesday

Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, is expected to make an economic policy announcement Wednesday. File photo by Andrew Harrer Bloomberg News

MONDAY: New home sales; Treasury securities auction; earnings from Swift Transportation, Xerox.

TUESDAY: Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee begins two-day meeting; durable goods orders; consumer confidence; earnings from Apple, Comcast, Compass Minerals, Ford Motor, Highwoods Properties, Lexmark, Panera Bread, T-Mobile US, UMB Financial, Waddell & Reed Financial.

WEDNESDAY: Federal Reserve economic policy announcement; earnings from EPR Properties, Garmin, Volkswagen AG.

THURSDAY: Gross domestic product; pending home sales; initial jobless claims; farm prices; earnings from Capitol Federal, Dine Equity, Leggett & Platt, Starbucks, YRC Worldwide.

FRIDAY: Personal income; earnings from Anheuser-Busch Inbev.

This story was originally published October 23, 2015 at 11:11 AM with the headline "Week Ahead: Federal Reserve meeting starts Tuesday."

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