New Week Intro April 26, 2010
Important U.S. earnings this week:
- Monday: Texas Instruments (TXN), Caterpillar (CAT)
- Tuesday: AFLAC (AFL), 3M (MMM), United Parcel Service (UPS), Ford Motor (F), Norfolk Southern (NSC), Newmont Mining (NEM), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), EI DuPont de Nemours & Co. (DD)
- Wednesday: Express Scripts (ESRX), Comcast Corporation (CMCSA), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), Visa (V), WellPoint (WLP), Franklin Resources (BEN), Southern Company (SO), Corning (GLW), General Dynamics (GD), MedcoHealth Solutions (MHS), The Dow Chemical Company (DOW), Praxair (PX)
- Thursday: Dominion Resources (D), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), ConocoPhillips (COP), Procter & Gamble (PG), Celgene (CELG), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), MetLife (MET), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Apache (APA), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), CME Group (CME)
- Friday: Chevron (CVX), Simon Property Group (SPG)
Important U.S. economic data:
- Monday: –
- Tuesday: FOMC Meeting Begins, ICSC-Goldman Store Sales, Redbook, S&P Case-Shiller HPI, Consumer Confidence, State Street Investor Confidence Index
- Wednesday: MBA Purchase Applications, EIA Petroleum Status Report, FOMC Meeting Announcement
- Thursday: Jobless Claims, EIA Natural Gas Report, Fed Balance Sheet, Money Supply
- Friday: GDP, Employment Cost Index, Chicago PMI, Consumer Sentiment, Farm Prices