GDP Due Out in Canada, U.S., Next Week


Monday

U.S.

Featured Earnings

Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE: BRO) (Q4) EPS estimates of 37 cents, compared to 18 cents in the prior-year quarter. In mid-January, Brown & Brown Insurance Services of California, Inc., a subsidiary of Brown & Brown, Inc., acquired certain assets of BayRisk Insurance Brokers.

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) (Q1) EPS estimates of 24 cents, compared to $1.19 in the prior-year quarter.

Kimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.44, compared to $1.35 in the prior-year quarter.


Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Redbook (Weekly)

FHFA House Price Index (Nov.)

S&P Case-Shiller HPI (Nov.)

Consumer Confidence (Jan.)

Featured Earnings

3M Co (NYSE: MMM) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.62, compared to $1.81 in the prior-year quarter. Early in January, Chief Executive Magazine announced it has ranked 3M eighth in its list of the Best Companies for Leaders, elevating the company three spots from 2015.

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) (Q4) EPS estimates of $3.24, compared to $3.06 in the prior-year quarter.

AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) (Q1) EPS estimates of 63 cents, compared to 55 cents in the prior-year quarter. The phone behemoth has been on something of a hiring binge of late, announcing in January that the company seeks to hire nearly 300 people to fill available jobs in Missouri andKansas. The positions are primarily technicians and retail support jobs and are a result of AT&T's continued investment in the two-state region.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Canadian National Railway Company (T.CNR) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.12, compared to $1.03 in the prior-year quarter.

Metro Inc. (T.MRU) (Q1) EPS estimates of 53 cents, compared to 45 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

EIA Petroleum Status Report (Jan. 13-19)

New Home Sales (Dec.)

FOMC Meeting Announcement


Featured Earnings

The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) (Q4) EPS estimates of $2.11, compared to $2.31 in the prior-year quarter.

EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) (Q4) EPS estimates of 55 cents, compared to 59 cents in the prior-year quarter.

General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) (Q4) EPS estimates of $2.34, compared to $2.19 in the prior-year quarter.



Canada

Featured Earnings

Celestica Inc. (T.CLS) (Q4) EPS estimates of 30 cents, compared to 25 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Rogers Communications Inc. (T.RCI.B) (Q4) EPS estimates of 69 cents, identical to the prior-year quarter. Rogers announced that it would produce and broadcast the first-ever NHL game in 4K—between Montreal and Toronto Saturday, Jan. 23, from Air Canada Centre.

CGI Group Inc. (T.GIB.A) (Q1) EPS estimates of 83 cents, compared to 74 cents to the prior-year quarter. CGI won a major contract before the end of 2015, a $19.6-million U.S. contract by the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, Jacksonville, Fla, to provide worldwide logistics services, software systems support and operational logistics support in this five-year contract (base year plus four option years) to the Marine Corps

Methanex Corporation (T.MX) (Q4) EPS estimates of 20 cents, compared to 85 cents in the prior-year quarter. In late December, the company successfully produced first methanol from its newly completed one million tonne Geismar 2 methanol plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The plant was relocated from the Company's production site in Punta Arenas, Chile.

Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Weekly jobless claims (Jan. 13-19)

Durable Goods Orders (Dec.)

Pending Home Sales Index (Dec.)

Federal Balance Sheet

Featured Earnings

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.62, compared to 45 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) (Q1) EPS estimates of 27 cents, compared to 46 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Gentex Corp. (NASDAQ: GNTX) (Q4) EPS estimates of 27 cents, compared to 24 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Richelieu Hardware Ltd. (T.RCH) (Q4) EPS estimates of 91 cents, compared to 80 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (T.POT) (Q4) EPS estimates of 32 cents, compared to 49 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canadian Oil Sands Limited (T.COS) (Q4) EPS estimates for loss of 14 cents, compared to a gain of five cents in the prior-year quarter.

Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Q4: 2015)

International Trade in Goods (Nov.)

Chicago Purchasing Managers’ Index (Jan.)

Consumer Sentiment (Jan.)


Featured Earnings

American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.96, compared to $1.52 in the prior-year quarter.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) (Q4) EPS estimates of 73 cents, compared to 76 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.59, compared to $1.43 in the prior-year quarter.


Canada

Economic lookahead

Industrial Product Price Index (Dec.) This index declined 0.2% in November, mainly as a result of lower prices for primary non-ferrous metal products.

Raw Materials Price Index (Dec.) The index fell 4% in November, led by lower prices for crude energy products.

Gross Domestic Product (Dec.) GDP was unchanged in October, after falling 0.5% in September.



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