Expectations for UK retail sales center on a decline of 0.4 percent on the month and an increase of 3.1 percent from a year ago.

US housing starts are seen flat at a 1.4 million unit rate from a month ago, and permits steady at the same 1.5 million unit rate.

Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic is scheduled to give a lecture,"Economic Education and Fed 101" before high school students as part of a Mississippi Council on Economic Education event.

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Neel Kashkari is scheduled to moderate morning keynote policy panel before the"Macroeconomic Policy Perspectives: Banking, Regulation, and Macroeconomic Outcomes" conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher Waller to speak on"Decentralized Finance" before the Nineteenth Annual Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop at the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Bostic to speak on the economic outlook, importance of financial literacy and economic education before a Mississippi Council on Economic Education Forum on American Enterprise luncheon.

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