by Calculated Risk on 8/24/2025 06:20:00 PM
Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of August 24, 2025
Monday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for July. This is a composite index of other data.
• At 10:00 AM, New Home Sales for July from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for 630 thousand SAAR, up from 627 thousand in June.
• At 10:30 AM, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for August.
From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value).
Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $63.74 per barrel and Brent at $67.77 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $76, and Brent was at $80 – so WTI oil prices are down about 16% year-over-year.
Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.13 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.31 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down $0.18 year-over-year.
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