by Calculated Risk on 2/25/2018 06:23:00 PM

Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of Feb 25, 2018

Monday:
• 8:30 AM ET, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for January. This is a composite index of other data.

• 10:00 AM, New Home Sales for January from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for 600 thousand SAAR, down from 625 thousand in December.

• 10:30 AM, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for February.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures: S&P 500 are up 5, and DOW futures are up 74 (fair value).

Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $63.57 per barrel and Brent at $67.27 per barrel.  A year ago, WTI was at $54, and Brent was at $55 - so oil prices are up solidly year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $2.51 per gallon. A year ago prices were at $2.29 per gallon - so gasoline prices are up 22 cents per gallon year-over-year.