Gary Siegel

The Treasury Department auctioned $13 billion of one-year 10-month floating rate notes at a 0.060% spread.

U.S. durable goods orders climbed 1.7% in August, while excluding transportation orders were up 0.2%, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $26 billion of two-year notes with a 1 3/8% coupon at a 1.462% yield, a price of 99.829541.

Given the numerous uncertainties in the economy, gradual rate hikes remain the best course, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said.

While monetary policy is not “overly easy,” Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic said his mind is open about tightening.

The consumer confidence index decreased to 119.8 in September from a revised 120.4 last month.

Service sector activity “remained generally upbeat in September.”

Manufacturing in the central Atlantic region “largely unchanged in August.”

Home prices rose 5.9% on an annual basis in July, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index.

The region's non-manufacturing sector “continued to expand,” as the general business conditions index increased to 33.2 in September from 31.8 in August.

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While he doesn’t “see much risk of an outsized breakout in inflation,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Monday he is concerned that inflation expectations are too low.

The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $35 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to increase in September,” according to the monthly Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, released Monday.

The Chicago Fed National Activity Index fell to negative 0.31 and the three-month moving average slid to negative 0.04.

Inflation will reach 2% in 2019 and stay there in 2020, after getting close in 2018, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen said during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

The Summary of Economic projections calls for one more rate hike in 2017.

The Federal Reserve will begin its balance-sheet-reduction plan in October, the panel announced Wednesday.

Existing home sales declined 1.7% to a seasonally adjusted 5.35 million-unit rate in August , the National Association of Realtors announced Wednesday.