What to Watch in the Day Ahead - Tuesday, March 17

On the U.S economic front, the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is scheduled to start its two-day meeting on interest rates. Additionally, the National Association of Realtors is expected to publish pending home sales data, which likely fell 0.5% in February, following a 0.8% loss in the prior month.

Lululemon Athletica is expected to post its fourth-quarter revenue. Investors will watch out for comments on consumer spending, the impact of new tariffs, proxy war by founder Chip Wilson and annual forecasts.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to hold a Q&A session with the media on the second day of the GTC AI conference.

Dan Guarnera, who leads antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, is scheduled to speak live at Reuters Events' Pharma USA conference in Philadelphia.

Boeing Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Jay Malave is set to speak at the Bank of America Global Industrials Conference.

U.S. airline executives are scheduled to speak at a JP Morgan event as jet fuel prices double since the Iran conflict, ahead of the spring and summer travel seasons.

Paul Atkins and Michael Selig, the respective chairs of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Commission, are set to make a joint appearance at a crypto industry conference in Washington.

In Latin America, Brazil's inflation, as shown by IGP-10 index, likely declined 0.28% in March.