Apple (AAPL.O) launched an all-new MacBook Pro featuring a touchscreen.

Italy August seasonally adjusted industrial sales MoM -0.9%; prior +1.7%.

Markets are focused on Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s upcoming press conference. Some economists expect a "hawkish pause." Former Fed Vice Chair Alan Blinder said the moment highlights why "forward guidance" matters: the hawkish element of a pause can only be conveyed through communication rather than simply holding rates. Blinder added the Fed faces a dilemma—both holding rates and hiking can be plausibly defended—and said Warsh has partly created that dilemma by previously downplaying the role of forward guidance.