Its not quite so busy a day for the economic calendar in the US on Thursday as it was on Wednesday, here's what's due:
8:30 AM NY time (1330GMT)
Housing Starts for December
- expected 1188K
- prior 1090K
Building permits for December
- expected 1225K, up 1.1% m/m
- prior -3.8% m/m to 1212K
Weekly initial jobless claims (week ended January 14 2017)
- expected 252K
- prior 247K
& Continuing claims, expected 2075K, prior 2087K
Philadelphia Federal Reserve January manufacturing survey
- expected 15.3
- previous was 19.7
Much later, due at 8 PM (0100GMT)
Federal Reserve Chair Yellen speaking, this time at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Many thanks to Solange in the comments, live link here: The event topic is The Economic Outlook and Conduct of Monetary Policy)
