We get a bit of actual US ecoomic data today

Tomorrow we get the US-Canada central bank extravaganza but today we remain locked in the US government shutdown deadzone of official economic data. Fortunately, there are a handful of private releases that will offer some small clues on the direction of the economy.

• 9 am ET – house price data from Case-Shiller and the FHFA
• 10 am ET – consumer confidence from The Conference Board
• 10 am ET – Richmond Fed

Those certainly aren’t tier-1 data but the releases should add some life to the market today.

Meanwhile, anyone offering takes on the economy based on this should be banned from the internet:

This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.