TUESDAY
WASHINGTON: Commerce Department to release retail sales data for December, 8:30 a.m.; Labor Department to release the Producer Price Index for December, 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department to release business inventories for November, 10 a.m.
BERLIN: Germany to release its full-year 2012 economic growth figure.
WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON: Labor Department to release Consumer Price Index for December, 8:30 a.m.; Federal Reserve to release industrial production for December, 9:15 a.m.; National Association of Home Builders to release housing market index for January, 10 a.m.; Federal Reserve to release Beige Book, 2 p.m.
THURSDAY
WASHINGTON: Labor Department to release weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m.; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, to release weekly mortgage rates, 10 a.m.; Commerce Department to release housing starts for December, 8:30 a.m.
JAN. 21
NEW YORK: U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
JAN. 22
WASHINGTON: National Association of Realtors to release existing home sales for December, 10 a.m.
BERLIN: Germany’s ZEW institute to release its monthly investor confidence index for Europe’s biggest economy.
JAN. 24
WASHINGTON: Labor Department to release weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m.; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, to release weekly mortgage rates, 10 a.m.; Conference Board to release leading indicators for December, 10 a.m.
JAN. 25
WASHINGTON: Commerce Department to release new home sales for December, 10 a.m.
JAN. 28
WASHINGTON: Commerce Department to release durable goods for December, 8:30 a.m.; National Association of Realtors to release pending home sales index for December, 10 a.m.
JAN. 29
WASHINGTON: Standard & Poor’s to release S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for November, 9 a.m.; the Conference Board to release the Consumer Confidence Index for January, 10 a.m.; Federal Reserve policymakers to begin a two-day meeting to set interest rates.
— Associated Press