A relatively newsy day ahead on Wednesday featuring multiple Federal Reserve speakers and some bona fide economic reports including the Fed's own beige book of economic conditions, the latter due at 14:00 ET.

At 8:30, the New York Fed's Empire State report on manufacturing in the New York Fed district. The Econoday consensus looks for a soggy minus 0.9 business conditions index for October versus a weaker minus 8.7 in September.

Highlights of Fed speakers include: Fed Governor Stephen Miran scheduled to speak at 9:30 am ET at a CNBC event and again at 12:30 pm at a Nomura forum. Fed Governor Waller speaks on AI at 13:00 ET at a fintech event.

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