Wednesday: Housing Starts, Preliminary Employment Benchmark, FOMC Minutes

Wednesday:
• At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.

• At 8:30 AM, Housing Starts for July. The consensus is for 1.602 million SAAR, down from 1.643 million SAAR in June.

• At 10:00 AM, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release the preliminary estimate of the upcoming annual benchmark revision.

• During the day, The AIA’s Architecture Billings Index for July (a leading indicator for commercial real estate).

• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Minutes, July 27-28, 2021