[FOMC Interest Rate Decision] 10-28 Wed 14:00 ET — Market focus on whether rate cuts continue and Powell's press conference remarks on the December path
[FOMC Press Conference] 10-28 Wed 14:00 ET — Powell's wording is the biggest volatility catalyst of the week, focused on his latest characterization of the employment/inflation tradeoff
[GDP (Q3 Advance)] 10-29 Thu 08:30 ET — Focus on whether growth resilience holds up, providing evidence for the pace of rate cuts
[PCE Price Index (Sep)] 10-29 Thu 08:30 ET — The Fed's preferred inflation gauge; whether core PCE m/m and y/y continue cooling directly affects December rate cut expectations
No NFP, unemployment rate, CPI, PPI, or retail sales releases during this window (CPI/NFP typically fall early in the month, outside this week's window).