Monday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Housing Market Index (April)
Featured Earnings
Brown & Brown Inc. (NYSE: BRO) (Q1) EPS estimates of 42 cents, compared to 40 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) (Q1) EPS estimates of 24 cents, compared to 21 cents in the prior-year quarter.
International Business Machines Corp (NYSE: IBM) (Q1) EPS estimates of $2.07, compared to $2.91 in the prior-year quarter. This week, Sichuan Nanchong Dangdai Transport Industry Group, the largest extra-long distance road passenger transportation service group in Sichuan province, China, announced a new e-ticketing solution using IBM's Linux-only computing platform LinuxONE. Customers will now be able to purchase tickets through the company's website, mobile app, social media or vending machines.
Canada
Economic lookahead
International Transactions in Securities (Feb.) Foreign acquisitions of Canadian securities reached $13.5 billion in January, mainly private corporate debt instruments. At the same time, Canadian investors reduced their holdings of foreign securities by $13.8 billion, principally equities.
Featured Earnings
Rogers Communications Inc. (T.RCI.B) (Q1) EPS estimates of 54 cents, compared to 53 cents in the prior-year quarter. Late in March, Rogers Communications announced it would offer Internet of Things (IoT) 'as a service' to simplify the process of managing complex IoT solutions. Two of the first solutions being offered as a service include Farm & Food Monitoring and Level Monitoring, and Rogers will deliver these exclusively with blueRover, a Canadian-based provider.
Tuesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Housing Starts (Mar.)
Redbook (Weekly)
Featured Earnings
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG (NYSE:AWH) (Q1) EPS estimates of 58 cents, compared to 93 cents in the prior-year quarter. The company last week announced that its Product Recall insurance products are available in Canada and the United States, as part of the Global Crisis Management Division. The Product Recall insurance offers both First Party and Third Party coverage and it allows clients to mitigate the risk of recall expenses, adverse publicity and damage to brand reputation, business interruption costs and insured’s defense costs.
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) (Q1) EPS estimates of $2.57 compared to $5.94 in the prior-year quarter.
Harley-Davidson Inc (NYSE: HOG) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.29 compared to $1.27 in the prior-year quarter.
Wednesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Existing Home Sales (Mar.)
EIA Petroleum Status Report (April 9-15)
Featured Earnings
Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) (Q1) EPS estimates of 44 cents, compared to 48 cents in the prior-year quarter. This week, the company announced strong progress toward its goal to enable the economic empowerment of five million women entrepreneurs across the Coca-Cola value chain by 2020. Year-end results for 2015 indicate that the initiative, known as 5by20, has reached a total of more than 1.2 million women entrepreneurs across 60 countries since its launch in 2010.
Graco Inc. (NYSE: GGG) (Q1) EPS estimates of 75 cents, compared to 65 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Huntington Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ: HBAN) (Q1) EPS estimates of 20 cents, compared to 19 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Wholesale Trade (Feb.) Wholesale sales were unchanged at $57.0 billion in January. In volume terms, wholesale sales decreased 0.2% in January.
Featured Earnings
Metro Inc. (T.MRU) (Q2) EPS estimates of 50 cents, compared to 43 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (T.CP) (Q1) EPS estimates of $2.41 compared to $2.26 in the prior-year quarter. This week, CP terminated efforts to merge with Norfolk Southern Corp. (NS), including the withdrawal of a resolution asking NS shareholders to vote in favour of good-faith negotiations between the two companies.
AltaGas Ltd. (T.ALA) (Q1) EPS estimates of 33 cents compared to 43 cents in the prior-year quarter. This week, AltaGas announced that the April dividend will be paid on May 16, to common shareholders of record on April 25 The ex-dividend date is April 21. The amount of the dividend will be $0.165 for each common share.
TransForce Inc. (T.TFI) (Q1) EPS estimates of 29 cents, compared to 28 cents in the prior-year quarter
Mullen Group Ltd. (T.MTL) (Q1) EPS estimates of 17 cents
Thursday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
FHFA House Price Index (Feb.)
Leading Indicators (Mar.)
Weekly jobless claims (April 9-15)
Federal Balance Sheet
Money Supply
Featured Earnings
Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (Q1) EPS estimates of $6.37, compared to $5.20 in the prior-year quarter.
Dover Corp (NYSE: DOV) (Q1) EPS estimates of 59 cents, compared to 72 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (NASDAQ: FCS) (Q1) EPS estimates of 14 cents, compared to 11 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Featured Earnings
Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation (T.AI) (Q1) EPS estimates of 24 cents
Celestica Inc. (T.CLS) (Q1) EPS estimates of 23 cents, compared to 19 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Economic lookahead
Employment Insurance (Feb.) In January, the number of Canadians receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits totaled 543,100, virtually unchanged from the previous month.
Friday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Purchasing Managers’ Index Mfg. Index—Flash (Apr.)
Featured Earnings
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) (Q1) EPS estimates of 66 cents, compared to $1.86 in the prior-year quarter.
General Electric Co (NYSE: GE) (Q1) EPS estimates of 21 cents, compared to 31 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Honeywell International Inc (NYSE: HON) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.50, compared to $1.41 in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Consumer Price Index (Mar.) Inflation rose 1.4% in the 12 months to February, after hiking 2% in January. On a seasonally-adjusted monthly basis, the CPI decreased 0.2% in February, following a 0.2% increase in January.
Retail Sales (Feb.) Retail sales rose 2.1% to $44.2 billion in January.
Featured Earnings
Polymet Mining Corp. (T.POM) (Q4) EPS estimates for loss of one cent, identical to prior-year quarter.
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