Monday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Labour Market Conditions Index (March)
Factory Orders (Feb.)
Featured Earnings
EDAP TMS S.A. (NASDAQ: EDAP) (Q4) EPS estimates for breakeven, compared to a loss of seven cents in the prior-year quarter.
Tuesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
International Trade (Feb.)
Purchasing Managers Index Services Index (March)
JOLTS (February) This is the U.S. Labor Department’s acronym for Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
Institute for Supply Management Non-Manufacturing Index (March)
Redbook (Weekly)
Featured Earnings
Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.20, compared to 99 cents in the prior-year quarter. In mid-March, rating agency Starboard Value lowered its position in Darden to 5.2% from 6.2%.
Schulman (A.) Inc. (NASDAQ: SHLM) (Q2) EPS estimates of 27 cents, compared to 39 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (NASDAQ: WBA) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.27, compared to $1.18in the prior-year quarter. In mid-March, Walgreens exercised warrants to purchase 22.6 million shares of AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) common stock for an aggregate payment of approximately $1.17 billion. The transaction was funded using existing cash on hand.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Canadian international merchandise trade (Feb.) Canada's imports increased 1.1% in January to $46.7 billion. Exports totaled $46.0 billion, up 1% from December. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade deficit with the world widened from $631 million in December to $655 million in January.
Wednesday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
EIA Petroleum Status Report (Mar. 25-April 1)
Federal Open Market Committee Minutes
Featured Earnings
Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE: AYI) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.51, compared to $1.08 in the prior-year quarter.
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.80, identical to the prior-year quarter.
Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) (Q2) EPS estimates of $2.45, compared to $2.90 in the prior-year quarter.
Thursday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Weekly jobless claims (Mar. 25-April 1)
Consumer Credit (Feb.)
Federal Balance Sheet
Money Supply
Featured Earnings
ConAgra Foods Inc. (NYSE: CAG) (Q3) EPS estimates of 58 cents, compared to 59 cents in the prior-year quarter. In the second week of March, ConAgra announced that its Lamb Weston business will expand operations at its facility in Boardman, Ore. The $30-million investment will add additional processing capacity for making formed products such as hash brown patties and potato puffs
CarMax Inc. (NYSE: KMX) (Q4) EPS estimates of 71 cents, compared to 65 cents in the prior-year quarter.
WD-40 Co. (NASDAQ: WDFC) (Q2) EPS estimates of 86 cents, compared to 76 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic lookahead
Building permits (Feb.) Statistics Canada says municipalities issued building permits worth $6.4 billion in January, a decline of 9.8% from the previous month.
Featured Earnings
Richelieu Hardware Ltd. (T.RCH) (Q1) EPS estimates of 19 cents, compared to 17 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Sandvine Corporation (T.SVC) (Q1) EPS estimates of three cents, compared to five cents in the prior-year quarter. Early in March, Sandvine announced that Webbing, a mobile roaming solution for global businesses, had been using Sandvine's Virtual Series in multiple datacenters around the world to enable data roaming in over 170 countries.
Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (T.PNC.A) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of four cents, compared to loss of 63 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Friday
U.S.
Economic lookahead
Wholesale Trade (Feb.)
Canada
Economic lookahead
Labour Force Survey (March) Employment moved downward 2,300 in February, as gains in part-time work were offset by losses in full-time. The unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage points for the third consecutive month, reaching 7.3% for the first time since March 2013.
