DIARY - Today in Washington - Nov. 5

Nov. 5

ALL TIMES IN EDT/GMT

---------------------------------------------------------

0830/1330 - Labor Dept. issues first estimate of
third-quarter productivity and costs; weekly jobless claims.

0830/1330 - USDA releases weekly export sales.

0845/1345 - IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn
gives opening remarks and welcome at IMF Macroeconomic
conference.

1000/1500 - Freddie Mac issues weekly U.S. mortgage rates.

1000/1500 - Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist
Financing David Cohen testifies before the Senate Homeland
Security Committee on "Business Formation and Financial Crime:
Finding a Legislative Solution."

1000/1500 - Senate Banking Committee hearing on the
nomination of Marisa Lago to be assistant Treasury secretary
for international markets and development.

1030/1530 - EIA issues weekly U.S. underground natural gas
stocks.

1100/1600 - Treasury Dept. weekly announcement of 3- and
6-month bill sale offerings.

1130/1630 - Former president of Spain Jose Maria Aznar
speaks on "The Reform of the International Financial System: A
Proposal with Lessons Learned from the Crisis" at event hosted
by the Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

1330/1830 - Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial
Institutions Michael Barr speaks before the American Law
Institute-American Bar Association conference on Life
Insurance.

1500/2000 -- Treasury Dept. releases monthly STRIPS, or
Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal of
Securities data.

1915/0015 - U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk speaks on
the "important economic and trade relationship and the status
of the administration's review of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade
Agreement" before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/U.S.-Korea
Business Council.

----------------------------------------------------------

DIARY - Federal Reserve Events [FED/DIARY]

U.S. Indicators [US/ECI]

U.S. Treasury new issues calendar [US/C]