@ The White House
In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office.
Later in the morning, the President will deliver remarks urging Congress to vote to end the billions in taxpayer dollars handed out to oil companies every year.
The Senate is scheduled to vote on legislation on Thursday. The President will also highlight how those tax dollars could be better spent on clean energy and American innovation.
@ Wall Street
Economists are looking to see what kind of revisions will show up in personal consumption, and then whether that could spill into the February personal consumption number, released Friday.
There is also important weekly jobless claims data, at 8:30 a.m. ET, and a 1 p.m. auction of $29 billion in 7-year notes.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is scheduled to give his final lecture at George Washington at 12:45 p.m. ET, and Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser speaks at 1 p.m. on the economy, in Wilmington, Del. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker speaks at 10:30 a.m. ET.
Earnings reports are expected from Best Buy and Shaw Group before the opening bell Thursday, while Blackberry maker Research in Motion and Tibco report after the bell.
