Data and Speaker highlights (estimates):....>

OUTLOOK: Data and Speaker highlights (estimates): Limited second tier data with

NFIB Small Business Index, Redbook retail sales, NY Fed expectations survey and

Treasury budget balance. US Treasury $164B total bills (4-, 8-, 13- and 26W)

auctions.

- Nomura on NY Fed survey of consumer expectations: infl'n expn's "remain within

a steady range with both the one-year and three-year ahead expected inflation

holding at 3.00% in September. Other indicators in the survey support an outlook

for favorable consumer spending with elevated earnings growth expectations and a

favorable evaluation of the labor market."

- Multiple Fed speakers to hit the circuit. At midmorning (1000ET) MN Fed Pres

Kashkari welcoming remarks and answer questions at Regional Economics Conf on

Immigration; US Fed Gov Lael Brainard at Philly Fed Bank Conf  on Fintech/New

Financial Landscape.

- Later, Philly Fed Pres Harker will answers qn's at Fintech/New Financial

Landscape Conf (1420ET); SF Fed Pres Daly will lecture and answer questions at

Boise State University, Idaho (1700ET).