ALL TIMES EST/GMT:

TREASURY:

Treasury Department sells 4-week bills, 11:30 a.m. (1630

GMT).

Treasury Department sells 2-year notes, 1 p.m. (1800 GMT).

FEDERAL RESERVE:

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher

speaks on 'Placing Financial Instability in Context' before the

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Hyman P. Minsky

Conference on Financial Instability in Berlin, Germany, 3 a.m.

(0800 GMT).

Federal Reserve Bank of New York First Vice President

Christine Cumming participates in 'Financial Reform Proposals'

discussion before the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

Hyman P. Minsky Conference on Financial Instability in Berlin,

Germany, 4 a.m. (0900 GMT).

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart

speaks before the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Hyman

P. Minsky Conference on Financial Instability in Berlin,

Germany, 6:30 a.m. (1130 GMT).

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives brief welcome

remarks before the National College Fed Challenge Finals at the

Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C., 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT).

Federal Reserve Bank of New York releases Quarterly Report

on Household Debt and Credit, 3 p.m. (2000 GMT).

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans

speaks on the economic outlook before a C.D. Howe Institute

Benefactors' lecture and dinner event in Toronto, Canada, 8 p.m.

(0100 GMT).

ECONOMIC INDICATORS :

ICSC/Goldman Sachs release chain store sales for the week

ended Nov. 24 versus the prior week, 7:45 a.m. (1245 GMT). In

the previous week, sales fell 0.3 percent.

Commerce Department releases October durable goods orders,

8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT). Economists in a Reuters survey expect a

0.6 percent drop in orders compared with a 9.8 percent rise in

September.

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago releases its Chicago Fed

Midwest Manufacturing Index for October, 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT).

The index read 93.4 in the prior month.

Redbook releases its Retail Sales Index of department and

chain store sales for November versus October, 8:55 a.m. (1355

GMT). In the prior period, sales were flat.

Standard & Poor's releases its S&P Case/Shiller Home Price

Index for September, 9 a.m. (1400 GMT). Economists in a Reuters

survey expect the adjusted 20 city index to rise 0.4 percent

versus a 0.5 percent rise in the previous month.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency issues Home Price

Index for September, 10 a.m. (1500 GMT). In the prior month, the

index rose 0.7 percent.

Conference Board releases November consumer confidence, 10

a.m. (1500 GMT). Economists in a Reuters survey expect a

reading of 73.0 compared with 72.2 in October.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond releases November indexes

on area manufacturing and service sectors, 10 a.m. (1500 GMT).

In the October, the composite manufacturing index was -7, the

manufacturing shipments index read -9, and the services revenue

index was 3.

Dallas Fed issues November Texas Service Sector Index, 10:30

a.m. (1530 GMT). In October, the index read 9.3.

(U.S. Treasury Desk, +1-646-223-6300)

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