Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Wednesday:
* At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index.
* At 8:30 AM, The Consumer Price Index for December from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be up 2.9% year-over-year and core CPI to be up 3.3% YoY.
* At 8:30 AM, The New York Fed Empire State manufacturing survey for January. The consensus is for a reading of -2.0, down from 0.2.
* At 2:00 PM, the Federal Reserve Beige Book, an informal review by the Federal Reserve Banks of current economic conditions in their Districts.