Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Wednesday: • At 7:00 AM ET, The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) will release the results for the mortgage purchase applications index. • At 8:30 AM, Housing Starts for November. The consensus is for 1.344 million SAAR, up from 1.311 million SAAR. • During the day, The AIA's Architecture Billings Index for October (a leading indicator for commercial real estate). • At 2:00 PM, FOMC Meeting Announcement. The Fed is expected to cut rates 25bp at this meeting. • At 2:00 PM, FOMC Projections This will include the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participants' projections of the appropriate target federal funds rate along with the quarterly economic projections. • At 2:30 PM, Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC announcement.