THIS WEEK
January 18, 2009 - 10:00 pm
Major business events and economic events scheduled for the coming week (some dates are tentative):
MONDAY:
WASHINGTON -- Treasury closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
TUESDAY:
Nothing planned.
WEDNESDAY:
WASHINGTON -- Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the financial crisis; Senate Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Timothy Geithner to be treasury secretary.
THURSDAY:
WASHINGTON -- Commerce Department releases housing starts for December, 8:30 a.m.; Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m.; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates.
FRIDAY:
Nothing planned
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS