TODAY

• The National Association of Home Builders publishes its December housing market index.

• The New York Federal Reserve issues its December Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

• The Lower Manhattan Business Solutions Center is sponsoring a Restaurant Owners & Managers Boot Camp between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Small Business Library at 188 Madison Ave., lower level. Free. Contact: Carleen Jones at cjones@seedco.org or (212) 618-8862.

• The New York Society of Security Analysts is hosting Career Chat: The State of Equity Research between 5:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. at NYSSA, 1177 Sixth Ave., 2nd floor. Free for members, $20 for nonmembers. Contact: seminars@nyssa.org (646) 871-3405.

TOMORROW

• November Housing Starts are published.

• The Magazine Publishers of America host Magazines in China’s Media Mix — An Update between 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. at the MPA Conference Center, 810 Seventh Ave., 24th floor. Cost is $125 for members, $225 for nonmembers. Contact: Ashley Foxx at afoxx@magazine.org or 212-872-3733.

WEDNESDAY

• Morgan Stanley is scheduled to report its fourth quarter earnings.

THURSDAY

• The final third quarter Gross Domestic Product is published.

• The Conference Board releases its Leading Indicators survey for November.

• Bear Stearns Cos. is scheduled to report its fourth quarter earnings.

• Sponsored by iEvening, Entrepreneurs Pitch Business Plans to Investors between 6:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. at Strategies for Wealth Creation, 140 Broadway, 22nd floor. Cost is $50 for members, $60 for nonmembers. If pitch is accepted, the cost is $125. Contact: Alan Brody at reg@ibreakfast.comor (212) 624-9110.

FRIDAY

• The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Survey for December is released.

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