by Calculated Risk on 5/17/2016 06:54:00 PM

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

• During the day: The AIA's Architecture Billings Index for April (a leading indicator for commercial real estate).

• At 2:00 PM, the Fed will release the FOMC Minutes for the meeting of April 26-27, 2016

From Tim Duy: Fed Officials Come Looking For A Fight

[A] non-trivial contingent of the Fed does not want to leave June off the table. That is a message that came thorough loud and clear today. ... there is a message here - many FOMC participants want to go into the June meeting with a reasonable chance that they will hike rates. They don't want the outcome of this meeting to be a foregone conclusion.
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The more hawkish Fedspeak could be foreshadowing that the minutes of the April FOMC meeting will have a hawkish tilt.
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Bottom Line: Today's Fed speakers came looking for a fight with financial market participants. They don't like the low odds assigned to the June meeting. I don't think June is a go; the data isn't quite there yet. But odds are greater than 15%, in my opinion.
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