BMO analysts Ian Lyngen and........>

US TSYS/RESEARCH: BMO analysts Ian Lyngen and Aaron Kohli said next week, the US

Dec. CPI Friday "will once again take center stage as investors look to assess

the Fed's insistence that inflation is heading towards its 2% target in the

longer-run. We also have retail sales on Friday as the data for the week will

start out light, but will become much meatier as we head into the end of the

week. Supply in 3s, 10s, and 30s as well as the ECB minutes later in the week

are the other key events."

- They add week brings "plethora of Fedspeak with Dudley, Rosengren, and

Williams all talking on various aspects of the economic outlook" so "giving us

another sense of what a broader spectrum of Fed speakers has to say about the

most recent economic data. Chief among these will be Dudley, and while he's

expected to retire in mid-2018, his views will still hold sway as representing"

the current FOMC's "core" and "will be relevant for Fed moves" in 1Q 2018. 

- "Aside from Dudley, the coming barrage of dovish-leaning speakers will offer a

break from the more hawkish speak of Mester and Harker in the past week," BMO

analysts said.