Week Ahead: Fed Minutes, Retail Earnings Set the Tone
The week of August 17 has no press conference, no rate decision, and no fresh CPI print. It has something rarer and, in this cycle, more useful: the minutes of a meeting that already happened and a five-day stretch where four of the biggest names in American retail tell us, in their own numbers, whether the consumer is still spending. Add gold sitting a few hundred dollars below a level that would confirm a new leg higher, and Bitcoin giving back more than a third of its ETF-driven rebound in four sessions, and the setup is less about a single catalyst than about several stories converging at once.
Key Takeaways The FOMC releases its July 28-29 minutes on Wednesday, August 19 at 2:00pm ET, wi…
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