This Week’s Economic Calendar:
Week of January 11, 2010
Monday
* No releases for today. However, next week marks the start of the fourth-quarter earnings season,
Tuesday
* November trade balance
* Infosys Technologies Limited (INFY), KB Home (KBH), and SUPERVALU INC. (SVU) are slated to release earnings.
Wednesday
* December Treasury budget
* Fed’s Beige Book
* Weekly U.S. petroleum supplies.
* Sealy Corp. (ZZ) is the lone earnings report of note slated for release on the session.
Thursday
* The real deluge begins on Thursday, as traders will see weekly initial jobless claims, December retail sales, December import/export prices, and November business inventories. Origin Agritech Limited (SEED), Intel Corp. (INTC), and Shuffle Master Inc. (SHFL) are scheduled to report earnings.
Friday
* December consumer price index (CPI)
* Empire State manufacturing index for January,
* December’s capacity utilization and industrial production reports,
* January University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index
* JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) is releasing earnings.