Fedspeak is the focus later
Saturday features a big middleweight title fight in Canelo-Chavez but today it's all about the Federal Reserve heavyweights.
Yellen, Fischer, Williams and Rosengren are on the agenda before markets close for the weekend.
Here's the order of appearance:
1530 GMT (11:30 am ET) Vice-Chair Fischer
Fischer is on a panel at a conference on monetary policy at Stanford. Generally you don't head speech headlines for a panel so they will tick out over an hour or so.
1645 GMT (12:45 ET) San Francisco President Williams
Williams is a good barometer for Yellen and the core of the Fed. He delivers a keynote address at the Shadow Open Market Committee event in New York. That sounds like it will touch on all the big topics.
1730 GMT (1:30 pm ET) Rosengren, Evans and Bullard
The trio are on a panel at the same conference as Fischer. The topic is "The Structural Foundations of Monetary Policy." Again, the headlines will be dragged out rather than all at once.
1730 GMT (1:30 pm ET) - Fed Chair Yellen
I'm afraid this one will be a dud. It's a Brown University event to commemorate "125 years of women at Brown."