December 21, 2024

Looking Ahead: Looking Ahead

ECONOMIC REPORTS Reports will include construction spending and I.S.M. manufacturing (Monday); personal spending, personal income and monthly auto sales (Tuesday); M.B.A. mortgage applications, ADP employment report, I.S.M. nonmanufacturing index and factory orders (Wednesday); weekly jobless claims and ICSC chain store sales (Thursday); and the monthly unemployment rate for July and consumer credit (Friday).

 CORPORATE EARNINGS Companies reporting earnings include Loews, Allstate, Plantronics and Vornado Realty (Monday); BNP Paribas, Toyota, Barclays, BMW, NYSE Euronext, A.D.M., Duke Energy, Tenet Healthcare, Porsche, Peet’s Coffee and Tea, WebMD Health, CBS, Denny’s, Primerica, Hertz, Marathon Oil, Coach and Molson Coors (Tuesday); Time Warner, KKR, RR Donnelley Sons, MasterCard, Owens Corning, Nicor, TRW Automotive, Clear Channel, Avis Budget Group, Chiquita Brands, Zipcar, Clorox and Comcast (Wednesday); ING Groep, Unilever, Deutsche Telekom, Adidas, BlackRock Kelso Capital, World Wrestling Entertainment, Alliant Energy, Dean Foods, CVS Caremark, Visteon, General Motors, Cardinal Health,; Apache and Rio Tinto (Thursday); and Constellation Energy (Friday).

 IN WASHINGTON The Senate Banking Committee will conduct a hearing on housing finance, the Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee will conduct a hearing on nuclear reactor safety and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will conduct a hearing on health insurance premiums (Tuesday); the Senate Banking Committee will conduct a hearing on debt financing in the domestic financial sector, the Senate Judiciary Committee will conduct a hearing on cybercrime and the Senate Banking Committee will conduct a hearing on the nomination of Richard Cordray, the former attorney general of Ohio, to be director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Wednesday); and the House Financial Services Committee will conduct a hearing on the exposure of United States banks to the European Union’s debt crisis (Friday).

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