ALL TIMES EDT/GMT
TREASURY DEPARTMENT:
Alan Krueger, Treasury chief economist and assistant secretary for Economic Policy, holds a pen-and-pad briefing on employment data and economic recovery, Washington, D.C., 11:30 a.m. (1530 GMT)
Treasury Dept. releases monthly STRIPS, or Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities program, 3 p.m. (1900 GMT).
FEDERAL RESERVE:
No event are scheduled.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS:
Labor Department releases August employment report, 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT). Economists in a Reuters survey forecast a 225,000 jobs were lost in August compared with a loss of 247,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate is expected to be 9.5 percent compared with a 9.4 percent rate in July.
Economic Cycle Research Institute releases its monthly future inflation gauge index for August, 9:40 a.m. (1340 GMT). The index read 84.6 in July.
Economic Cycle Research Institute releases its weekly index of economic activity for Aug. 28, 10:30 a.m. (1430 GMT). In the prior week the index read 124.4.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT:
Alan Krueger, Treasury chief economist and assistant secretary for Economic Policy, holds a pen-and-pad briefing on employment data and economic recovery, Washington, D.C., 11:30 a.m. (1530 GMT)
Treasury Dept. releases monthly STRIPS, or Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of Securities program, 3 p.m. (1900 GMT).
FEDERAL RESERVE:
No event are scheduled.
ECONOMIC INDICATORS:
Labor Department releases August employment report, 8:30 a.m. (1230 GMT). Economists in a Reuters survey forecast a 225,000 jobs were lost in August compared with a loss of 247,000 jobs in July. The unemployment rate is expected to be 9.5 percent compared with a 9.4 percent rate in July.
Economic Cycle Research Institute releases its monthly future inflation gauge index for August, 9:40 a.m. (1340 GMT). The index read 84.6 in July.
Economic Cycle Research Institute releases its weekly index of economic activity for Aug. 28, 10:30 a.m. (1430 GMT). In the prior week the index read 124.4.
Keywords: DIARY USTREASURIES (U.S. Treasury Desk; +1-646-223-6300) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.