Business week ahead

MONDAY - Treasury releases federal budget for August.

TUESDAY - Commerce Department releases retail sales for August

and business inventories for July.

WEDNESDAY - Federal Reserve releases industrial production for August; House Ways and Means Committee hearing on China's exchange rate policy.

THURSDAY - Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims and the Producer Price Index for August; Commerce Department releases current account trade deficit for second quarter; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates.

FRIDAY - Labor Department releases Consumer Price Index for August.

- AP