Economic Commentary Highlights...

• Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is speaking in Boston on the benefits of additional quantitative easing (QE).
• Housing data, the Fed’s Beige Book and a full slate of Fed speakers on tap this week.
• While Fed policymakers have some interest in the economic data referring to the third quarter of 2010, and the current fourth quarter, they are probably much more concerned with what economic conditions will be like looking out to the third quarter of 2011.

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