Business Events Scheduled for the Coming Month

MONDAY, Sept. 28

WASHINGTON — Treasury auction.

TUESDAY, Sept. 29

NEW YORK — Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller releases its July index of home prices, 9 a.m.; Conference Board releases the Consumer Confidence Index, 10 a.m.; Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on strengthening bank supervision.

BEAVERTON, Ore. — Nike Inc. releases first-quarter financial results.

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreen Co. releases fourth-quarter financial results.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — World Bank holds its Americas Conference 2009; former U.S. President Bill Clinton to attend.

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 30

WASHINGTON — Commerce Department releases second-quarter gross domestic product, 8:30 a.m.; Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs subcommittee hearing on international cooperation for financial regulatory reform; House Financial Services Committee hearing on a proposed consumer financial protection agency; House Financial Services subcommittee hearing on credit rating agencies; House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the government's role in the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger.

CHICAGO — Kenneth Feinberg, U.S. Treasury Special Master for Executive Compensation Under TARP, will address the Chicago Bar Association.

THURSDAY, Oct. 1

NEW YORK — The Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for September, 10 a.m.

DETROIT — Major automakers report U.S. auto sales for September.

WASHINGTON — Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m.; Commerce Department releases personal income and spending for August, 8:30 a.m.; National Association of Realtors releases pending home sales index for August, 10 a.m; Commerce Department releases construction spending for August, 10 a.m.; Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies about new financial regulatory rules before the House Financial Services Committee; Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the energy and economic effects of climate change legislation; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates.