The US economic calendar picks up today

<p>The US <a href="https://www.forexlive.com/EconomicCalendar" target="_blank" rel="follow">economic calendar </a>heats up today and it may be the last busy day for awhile with the potential of a US government shutdown on October 1. That would stall the publication of federal statistics.</p><p>As for today, we get the Philly Fed non-manufacturing survey at the bottom of the hour and then:</p><ul><li>Case-Shiller US house prices at 9 am ET</li><li>Consumer confidence at 10 am ET</li><li>New home sales at 10 am ET</li><li>Richmond Fed at 10 am ET</li></ul><p>The US also sells $48 billion in 2-year notes and we get the API weekly oil inventory data after the close.</p>

This article was written by Adam Button at www.forexlive.com.