Monday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
PMI Services Index (Sept.)
ISM Non-Mfg Index (Sept.)
Featured Earnings
The Container Store Group Inc. (NYSE: TCS) (Q2) EPS estimates of six cents, compared to 11 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Featured Earnings
Uranium Participation Corporation (T.U) (Q2) EPS estimates of seven cents, compared to 33 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Tuesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
International Trade (August)
Redbook (Weekly)
Featured Earnings
NovaGold Resources Inc. (NYSE MKT: NG) (Q3) EPS estimates for loss of three cents, compared to loss of four cents in the prior-year quarter.
PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.26, compared to $1.36 in the prior-year quarter.
Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.08, compared to 87 cents in the prior-year quarter. Last Thursday, Yum’s Pizza Hut subsidiary announced a partnership with The Dallas Stars, Dallas Mavericks and American Airlines Center, designating the world's largest pizza company as the Official Pizza Partner of all three properties.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Canadian international merchandise trade (Aug.) Canada's exports rose 2.3% in July and were concentrated in non-energy products. On the other side of the ledger, imports were up 1.7%. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade deficit with the world narrowed from $811 million in June to $593 million in July.
IVEY PMI (Sept.) Western University in London, Ontario reported its IVEY Purchasing Managers Index for August stood at 58.0, compared to PMI figure 52.9 in July, and 50.9 for August 2014.
Featured Earnings
MTY Food Group Inc. (T.MTY) (Q3) EPS estimates of 41 cents, compared to 37 cents in the prior-year quarter. Mid-September, MTY announced it had completed the acquisition of 60% of the assets of Big Smoke Burger, for $3 million cash.
Wednesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
EIA Petroleum Status Report (Oct. 1-7)
Featured Earnings
Acuity Brands Inc. (NYSE: AYI) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.61, compared to $1.26 in the prior-year quarter.
Constellation Brands Inc (NYSE: STZ) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.31, compared to $1.11 in the prior-year quarter.
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) (Q4) EPS estimates for breakeven, compared to a loss of 27 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Building permits (Aug.) Building permits issued by municipalities edged down 0.6% to $7.7 billion in July, following a 15.5% increase in June.
Featured Earnings
Jean Coutu Group (T.PJC.A) (Q2) EPS estimates of 29 cents, compared to 28 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Performance Sports Group Ltd. (T.PSG) (Q1) EPS estimates of 12 cents, compared to 51 cents in the prior-year quarter.
EXFO Inc. (T.EXF) (Q4) EPS estimates of four cents, compared to three cents in the prior-year quarter. In late September, EXFO announced the addition of the MaxTester 940 Fibert Certifier to its solution portfolio for data centres and enterprise markets.
Thursday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Weekly jobless claims (Oct. 1-7)
FOMC Minutes
Featured Earnings
Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) (Q3) EPS estimate of 16 cents, compared to 31 cents in the prior-year quarter. The aluminum behemoth announced last week plans to split into two separate corporate entities. The split should take place sometime into the second half of 2016.
Dominos Pizza Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) (Q3) EPS estimate of 74 cents, compared to 63 cents in the prior-year quarter. Last week, Dominos announced that certain of its subsidiaries intend to complete a recapitalization transaction, which will include the refinancing of a portion of their outstanding securitization debt with a new series of securitized debt.
Helen of Troy Limited (NASDAQ: HELE) (Q2) EPS estimate of $1.00, compared to 93 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic lookahead
New Housing Price Index (Aug.) The New Housing Price Index rose 0.1% in July, following a 0.3% increase in June.
Featured Earnings
Sandvine Corporation (T.SVC) (Q3) EPS estimate of one cent, compared to two cents in the prior-year quarter. Late in September, Sandvine announced that Ubiscope, a provider of security, network and consulting services in South Korea will be using Sandvine's Cloud Services Policy Controller to offer innovative new services to their business customers.
Richelieu Hardware Ltd. (T.RCH) (Q3) EPS estimate of 81 cents, compared to 73 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Friday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Import, Export Prices (Sept.)
Wholesale Trade (August)
Canada
Economic lookahead
Labour Force Survey (Sept.) Employment was little changed (+12,000 or +0.1%) in August. However, the unemployment rate increased 0.2 percentage points to 7.0%, as more people searched for work.
Featured Earnings
IntelliPharmaCeutics International Inc. (T.I) (Q3) EPS estimates for loss of five cents, compared to loss of eight cents in the prior-year quarter
