Markets will commerce on shortened hours in the course of the Christmas vacation week, with all markets closed Wednesday for the vacation, and shortened buying and selling hours on Christmas Eve.

Traders will likely be awaiting reviews on consumer confidence, new home sales, sturdy items orders, preliminary jobless claims, worldwide commerce, and retail inventories. Few earnings reviews are scheduled.

Monday, Dec. 23

• Shopper Confidence Index (December)
• Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL) reviews earnings

Tuesday, Dec. 24

• Sturdy items orders (November)
• New dwelling gross sales (November)
• Inventory markets shut at 1 p.m. ET
• Bond markets shut at 2 p.m. ET

Wednesday, Dec. 25

Thursday, Dec. 26

• Preliminary jobless claims (Week ending Dec. 21)

Friday, Dec. 27

• Advance worldwide commerce stability (November)
• Advance retail inventories (November)
• Advance wholesale inventories (November)

Christmas Vacation Shortens Buying and selling Week

Traders may have fewer buying and selling alternatives within the holiday-shortened week. Markets will likely be closed on Wednesday for Christmas. On Tuesday, inventory markets will shut at 1 p.m. ET whereas bond markets will finish buying and selling at 2 p.m. 

Regardless of the shortened week, some financial indicators are scheduled to be launched, beginning with the Convention Board’s Consumer Confidence Index on Monday. The labor-sensitive survey comes as customers just lately reported feeling better about the economy within the wake of the election. Federal Reserve officers pay shut consideration to consumer inflation expectations, which might appeal to further consideration after the central financial institution’s determination Dec. 18 to lower its interest-rate cut outlook. 

On Tuesday, traders will get Census Bureau knowledge on new dwelling gross sales and sturdy items orders. The report on new dwelling gross sales comes after comparable knowledge confirmed that existing home sales increased in November. The sturdy items orders report will present perception into the well being of the U.S. manufacturing sector.

The Thursday preliminary jobless claims knowledge follows an upward movement in unemployment that Fed officers have been following. On Friday, traders will get a take a look at stock ranges for retailers and wholesalers, which might present perception into whether or not product sellers anticipate elevated exercise. 

Whereas earnings reviews are restricted in the course of the vacation week, New York-based pharmaceutical firm  Anavex Life Sciences will situation its quarterly financials on Monday.