All times in GMT:

1200 US Building permits revision

1200 Germany’s Merkel speaks from Berlin

1230 US March Durable goods (expected -1.5% m/m, ex transport +0.5% m/m)

1430 EIA weekly crude oil inventories (expected +1.5 mmbls)

1630 US FOMC rate decision (expected unchanged)

1730 Treasury Sec Geithner speaking in Portland, Oregon

1815 Fed Chairman Bernanke’s press conference