Tomorrow's News: Wednesday, August 26

Ah, the congressional fact-finding mission. Tomorrow, Newt Gingrich has his own summer of deliverance as he starts a float trip down the Hanford Reach, the last non-tidal free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River in the U.S., as a precursor to Hill debate on whether to keep it that way.

Back on the Street -- because, as the ad says, people work on Wednesday -- traders will be watching the numbers for July durable goods orders. The consensus estimate is down one-tenth of one percent, just like last month.