by Calculated Risk on 3/19/2019 08:37:00 PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Wednesday: FOMC Announcement
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 February (a leading indicator for commercial real estate).
• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Meeting Announcement. No change to policy is expected at this meeting.
• At 2:00 PM, FOMC Forecasts This will include the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participants' projections of the appropriate target federal funds rate along with the quarterly economic projections.
• At 2:30 PM, Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC announcement.