CORPORATE EARNINGS Citigroup, TD Ameritrade and Wells Fargo (Tuesday); Bank of New York Mellon, Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab, State Street, U.S. Bancorp and eBay (Wednesday); Bank of America, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Southwest Airlines, UnitedHealth Group, American Express, Google, I.B.M., Intel and Microsoft (Thursday); and General Electric (Friday).

IN THE UNITED STATES Financial markets, government offices and many businesses will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday (Monday).

Two House Financial Services subcommittees will conduct a joint hearing about the effect of the Volcker Rule on markets, businesses and investors (Wednesday).

IN EUROPE Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France will meet in Rome with Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy to discuss the European debt crisis (Friday).

Banks in the European Union face a deadline to submit plans to meet the European Banking Authority’s new capital requirements (Friday).

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