Money and Markets Economic and Company Calendar April 14-18
The calendar is chock-full this week. Earnings reports from last quarter will be coming in fast and furious amid a number of economic reports, including retail sales, inflation and housing data.
Earnings reports this week are heavy on financial services companies, including Citigroup, American Express and Bank of America, but also look for Internet giants Yahoo! and Google and large-caps Coca-Cola, Pepsico, IBM, Johnson and Johnson and General Electric, to name just a few.
What follows are calendar highlights for the week. (All times are Eastern Daylight Time; forecasts by analysts/economists polled by Bloomberg.)
Economic Reports
Monday, April 14
Retail Sales, 8:30 a.m.
Business Inventories, 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 15
Consumer Price Index, 8:30 a.m.
Empire State Manufacturing Survey, 8:30 a.m.
Treasury International Capital, 9 a.m.
Housing Market Index, 10 a.m.
Wednesday, April 16
Housing Starts, 8:30 a.m.
Industrial Production, 9:15 a.m.
EIA Petroleum Status Report, 10:30 a.m.
Beige Book, 2 p.m.
Thursday, April 17
Jobless Claims, 8:30 a.m.
Philadelphia fed Survey, 10 a.m.
Friday, April 18
Markets closed for Good Friday holiday.
Company Earnings Reports
Monday, April 14
Citigroup, Inc. (consensus estimate is $1.44 a share)
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (72 cents)
Tuesday,, April 15
Charles Schwab Corp.
Coca-Cola Co. (49 cents)
Comerica, Inc. (71 cents)
CSX Corp. (46 cents)
Intel Corp.
Johnson & Johnson
Yahoo!
Wednesday, April 16
Abbott Labs
Adtran, Inc.
American Express
Bank of America
Capital One Financial Corp.
Google, Inc.
IBM
Sandisk Corp.
U.S. Bancorp
Thursday, April 17
AutoNation, Inc. (76 cents a share)
Baker Hughes, Inc.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. ($2.75 a share)
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. ($1.79)
Fifth Third Bank (41 cents)
General Electric
Goldman Sachs Group
Honeywell International
Mettel, Inc.
Morgan Stanley
Pepsico, Inc.
Philip Morris, Inc.
Piper Jaffray Co.
Sherwin-Williams
UnitedHealth Group
Friday, April 18
Markets are closed for Good Friday.
Best wishes,
The Money and Markets Team
