Important U.S. earnings this week:
- Monday: Texas Instruments (TXN), Ford Motor (F), International Business Machines (IBM)
- Tuesday: The Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Apple (AAPL), Unitedhealth Group (UNH), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BK), Pepsico (PEP)
- Wednesday: U.S. Bancorp (USB), Morgan Stanley (MS), Altria Group (MO), United Technologies (UTX), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), The Coca-Cola Company (KO), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), EMC Corporation (EMC), QUALCOMM (QCOM)
- Thursday: United Parcel Service (UPS), Union Pacific Corporation (UNP), Amazon.com (AMZN), Philip Morris International (PM), 3M (MMM), Caterpillar (CAT), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), AT&T (T), American Express Company (AXP), PNC Financial Services Group (PNC), Microsoft (MSFT), Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)
- Friday: Schlumberger (SLB), Honeywell International (HON), McDonald’s (MCD), Verizon Communications (VZ)
Important U.S. economic data:
- Monday: Housing Market Index
- Tuesday: ICSC-Goldman Store Sales, Housing Starts, Redbook
- Wednesday: MBA Purchase Applications, EIA Petroleum Status Report
- Thursday: Jobless Claims, Existing Home Sales, FHFA House Price Index, Leading Indicators, EIA Natural Gas Report, Fed Balance Sheet, Money Supply
- Friday: -
