by Calculated Risk on 8/24/2025 06:20:00 PM

Weekend:
• Schedule for Week of August 24, 2025

Monday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, Chicago Fed National Activity Index for July. This is a composite index of other data.

• At 10:00 AM, New Home Sales for July from the Census Bureau. The consensus is for 630 thousand SAAR, up from 627 thousand in June.

• At 10:30 AM, Dallas Fed Survey of Manufacturing Activity for August.

From CNBC: Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value).

Oil prices were up over the last week with WTI futures at $63.74 per barrel and Brent at $67.77 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $76, and Brent was at $80 - so WTI oil prices are down about 16% year-over-year.

Here is a graph from Gasbuddy.com for nationwide gasoline prices. Nationally prices are at $3.13 per gallon. A year ago, prices were at $3.31 per gallon, so gasoline prices are down $0.18 year-over-year.