@ The White House
In the morning, the President will visit Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh to highlight the importance of manufacturing to the U.S. economy, and key steps that government, the private sector and universities will take together to create new industries and new jobs.
While visiting Carnegie Mellon, the President will tour the university?s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and see a range of cutting-edge technologies that have the potential to transform and assist the manufacturing sector, from crowd-sourced vehicles and next-generation robots, to modeling and simulation.
Later in the morning, the President will deliver remarks on the need to focus on cross-cutting technologies that will enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and speed up ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor. In the afternoon, the President will return to Washington, DC.
@ Wall Street
No main macroeconomic data to be published today. GDP review and Durable Good Orders.
