Tuesday 5/19

17 S&P 500 index companies announce quarterly results this week as first-quarter earnings season winds down. Home Depot reports results on Tuesday, followed by Intuit, Lowe's, Nvidia, and Target on Wednesday. Deere and Walmart release their earnings on Thursday.

Wednesday 5/20

The Federal Open Market Committee releases the minutes from its late-April monetary-policy meeting. At that confab, the FOMC left the federal-funds rate unchanged at 3.50% to 3.75%. It was the last meeting for Jerome Powell as Fed chair, who led the central bank for over eight years. Powell's successor, Kevin Warsh, was confirmed by the Senate this past week.

Thursday 5/21

The Census Bureau reports residential construction data for April. Consensus estimate is for a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.41 million privately owned housing starts, roughly 90,000 fewer than in March.

S&P Global releases both its Manufacturing and Services Purchasing Managers' Indexes for May. Economists forecast a 53.7 reading for the Manufacturing PMI and 51.1 for the Services PMI. This compares with readings of 54.5 and 51, respectively, in April.

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