News Bulletin

Thursday, September 17 2026
Morning Edition

Economic Numbers:

Time	Event	Forecast	Previous
Thursday, September 17, 2026
8:30	Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Sep)	31.3	47.4
8:30	Initial Jobless Claims	207K	206K
8:30	Housing Starts (MoM) (Aug)		-0.124
8:30	Building Permits (Aug)	1.400M	1.433M
8:30	Housing Starts (Aug)	1.320M	1.239M
8:30	Philly Fed Employment (Sep)		27.9
8:30	Continuing Jobless Claims	1,780K	1,774K
8:30	Building Permits (MoM) (Aug)		0.043
8:30	Philly Fed Business Conditions (Sep)		7360.00%
8:30	Philly Fed New Orders (Sep)		30.1
8:30	Philly Fed Prices Paid (Sep)		40.9
8:30	Philly Fed CAPEX Index (Sep)		4820.00%
8:30	Jobless Claims 4-Week Avg.		206.00K
10:00	Atlanta Fed GDPNow (Q3)	0.051	0.051
10:00	Pending Home Sales (MoM) (Aug)	-0.002	-0.023
10:00	Pending Home Sales Index (Aug)		7120.00%
10:30	Natural Gas Storage	49B	40B
11:30	4-Week Bill Auction		0.03775
11:30	8-Week Bill Auction		3.85%
13:00	10-Year TIPS Auction		0.02438
16:30	Fed's Balance Sheet		6,741B
16:30	Reserve Balances with Federal Reserve Banks		3.036T

Indices:

Earnings Calendar:

Market News:

· US stock futures are higher premarket: Dow futures about +0.7%, S&P 500 +0.7%, and Nasdaq-100 +0.8%.

· Nvidia and Amazon were among the major technology stocks gaining more than 1% in premarket trading.

· Generac (GNRC) surged more than 30% premarket after announcing an agreement worth up to $8 billion to supply generators for Amazon data centers.

· Amazon (AMZN) gained in premarket trading following the Generac data-center agreement, which also includes Amazon share-purchase warrants.

· Nebius (NBIS) jumped roughly 9% premarket after announcing price increases for its AI cloud-computing services.

· Fluence Energy (FLNC) fell more than 20% after cutting its FY2026 revenue forecast.

· Carnival (CCL) is among today's scheduled earnings reporters; the reported consensus is $1.35 EPS and $8.40B revenue.

· Fed raised interest rates by 25 bps to a 3.75%–4.00% target range, the first hike in three years, citing persistent inflation.

· Fed guidance remains hawkish: most policymakers see the possibility of another rate increase this year.

· Oil prices are falling, helping ease some near-term inflation pressure and supporting sentiment in stocks.

· The 10-year Treasury yield moved below 5%, while markets continue assessing the impact of higher-for-longer interest rates

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