Short Week for Markets Follows Thanksgiving


Monday

U.S.

Bond Markets Closed for Columbus Day, Equity Markets Open

Featured Earnings

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) (Q2) EPS estimates for 11 cents, compared to seven cents in prior-year quarter.

Canada

Markets are closed for Thanksgiving

Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Redbook (Weekly)

Featured Earnings

Barracuda Networks Inc. (NYSE: CUDA) (Q2) EPS estimates for 11 cents, compared to seven cents in prior-year quarter. Last week, the company introduced the new Barracuda Email Threat Scan for Office 365, a cloud-based service that gives customers an immediate view of their email security posture by identifying latent threats, including hidden APTs, in corporate email environments

Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: HAWK) (Q3) EPS estimates for 21 cents, compared to 27 cents in prior-year quarter.

Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST) (Q3) EPS estimates for 45 cents, compared to 47 cents in prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic lookahead

Housing Starts (Sept.) The trend measure of housing starts in Canada was 195,640 units in August compared to 201,379 in July, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

JOLTS (Aug.) The word JOLTS stands for U.S. Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, tracking monthly change in job openings and offers rates on hiring and quits.

EIA Petroleum Report (Sept. 27-Oct. 3)

Federal Open Market Committee Minutes

Featured Earnings

CSX Corporation (NASDAQ: CSX) (Q3) EPS estimates of 45 cents, compared to 52 cents in prior-year quarter. In September, CSX was granted an Award of Excellence in Public Safety by the National Alliance for Public Safety. The company was recognized for its “CSX Rail Respond” mobile-computing application, which provides firefighters, police officers and other emergency responders with easy mobile access to critical information about the commodities traveling on CSX rails in near-real time.

Canada


Featured Earnings

EXFO Inc. (T.EXF) (Q4) EPS estimates for five cents, compared to seven cents in prior-year quarter. EXFO announced in September he launch of the OpticalRF™ application for its compact, lightweight and powerful FTB-1 Pro test platform

Neptune Technologies & Bioressources Inc. (T.NTB) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of three cents, identical to prior-year quarter. This week, Neptune and Aker BioMarine entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement, thus ending all outstanding litigation between both companies.

DragonWave Inc. (T.DWI) (Q2) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of 81 cents, compared to $7.00 to prior-year quarter. Last week, DragonWave announced that mobile operator Blue Wireless has ordered 100 Horizon Compact+ and Horizon Quantum packet microwave radio links currently being deployed as part of its ongoing network expansion.

Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Jobless Claims (Oct.4-10)

Import and Export Prices (Sept.)

Treasury Budget

Federal Balance Sheet

Money Supply

Featured Earnings

FIRST REPUBLIC BANK (NYSE: FRC) (Q3) EPS estimates of 99 cents, compared to 82 cents to prior-year quarter.

KMG Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: KMG) (Q4) EPS estimates of 40 cents, compared to 32 cents to prior-year quarter.

Marriot Vacations Worldwide Corporation (VAC) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.20, compared to 82 cents to prior-year quarter. In September, Marriott was recently recognized as one of Orlando Sentinel's "Top 100 Companies" for 2016.

Winnebago Industries Inc. (WGO) (Q4) EPS estimates of 49 cents, compared to 43 cents to prior-year quarter. This week, Winnebago entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Grand Design Recreational Vehicle Company, a manufacturer of towable recreation vehicles (RVs), for approximately $500 million in cash and newly issued Winnebago shares.

Canada

Economic lookahead

New Housing Price Index (Aug.) This index rose 0.4% in July from the previous month

Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Producer Price Index – Final Demand (Sept.)

Retail Sales (Sept.)

Business Inventories (Aug.)

Consumer Sentiment – preliminary (Oct.)

Featured Earnings

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.15, compared to $1.31 to prior-year quarter.

Del Frisco's Restaurant Group Inc. (NASDAQ: DFRG) (Q3) EPS estimates of six cents, compared to four cents to prior-year quarter.

JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.38, compared to $1.32 to prior-year quarter.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.02, compared to $1.05 to prior-year quarter.


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