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Monday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

New Home Sales (Mar.)

Featured Earnings

Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.97, compared to $2.33 in prior-year quarter.

Halliburton Company (NYSE: HAL) (Q1) EPS estimates of five cents, compared to 49 cents in prior-year quarter.

Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of 33 cents, compared to gain of 20 cents in prior-year quarter.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Canadian National Railway Company (T.CNR) (Q1) EPS estimates of 93 cents, compared to 86 cents in prior-year quarter.

Husky Energy Inc. (T.HSE) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of 19 cents, compared to gain of 25 cents in prior-year quarter. Calgary-based Husky has commenced production at its Edam East Lloyd Thermal Project in Saskatchewan, the first of three thermal developments scheduled to come online this year.


Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Durable Goods Orders (Mar.)

S&P Case-Shiller Housing Price Index (Feb.)

Consumer Confidence (Apr.)

Redbook (Weekly)

Featured Earnings

3M Co (NYSE: MMM) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.92, compared to $1.85 in prior-year quarter. This week, 3M Drug Delivery Systems introduced the 3M™ Intelligent Control Inhaler, an intuitive, fully-integrated device that delivers accurate doses to patients, whilst providing on-screen instructions for use and feedback to the patient and health care provider via an app.

Aflac Inc. (NYSE: AFL) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.60, compared to $1.54 in prior-year quarter.

Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. (NASDAQ: BWLD) (Q1) EPS estimates of $1.78, compared to $1.52 in prior-year quarter.


Canada

Featured Earnings

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. (T.WFT) (Q1) EPS estimates of 64 cents, compared to $1.18 in prior-year quarter.

Thomson Reuters Corporation (T.TRI) (Q1) EPS estimates of 44 cents, identical to prior-year quarter. Reuters, the world's largest international multimedia news provider, learned Monday of this week it had been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography, for coverage of the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East.

Barrick Gold Corporation (T.ABX) (Q1) EPS estimates of eight cents, compared to five cents in prior-year quarter.

Teck Resources Limited (T.TCK.B) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of nine cents, compared to gain of 11 cents in prior-year quarter.

PrairieSky Royalty Ltd. (T.PSK) (Q1) EPS estimates of three cents, compared to 11 cents in prior-year quarter.


Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

International Trade in Goods (Feb.)

Pending Home Sales (Mar.)

EIA Petroleum Status Report (April 16-23)

FOMC Meeting Announcement

Featured Earnings

Anthem, Inc. (NYSE: ANTM) (Q1) EPS estimates of $3.34, compared to $3.14 in prior-year quarter.

Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of 30 cents, compared to loss of seven cents in prior-year quarter.

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) (Q1) EPS estimates of 44 cents, compared to 23 cents in prior-year quarter.


Canada


Featured Earnings

Open Text Corporation (T.OTC) (Q3) EPS estimates of 84 cents, compared to 66 cents in the prior-year quarter. Open Text announced this week it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain customer experience software and services assets from HP Inc.

Suncor Energy Inc. (T.SU) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of 11 cents, compared to gain of 20 cents in prior-year quarter.

Goldcorp Inc. (T.G) (Q1) EPS estimates of two cents, compared to one cent in prior-year quarter.

CGI Group Inc. (T.GIB.A) (Q2) EPS estimates of 88 cents, compared to 78 cents in prior-year quarter.


Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Q1)

Weekly jobless claims (April 16-22)

Production Managers Index Services – Flash (Apr.)

Federal Balance Sheet

Money Supply

Featured Earnings

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) (Q1) EPS estimates of 60 cents, compared to loss of 12 cents in prior-year quarter. This week, Amazon announced it had won a deal worth about $30 million to provide e-books to New York City, the U.S.'s largest school district.

Cabelas Inc. (NYSE: CAB) (Q1) EPS estimates of 37 cents, compared to 38 cents in prior-year quarter.

H&E Equipment Services Inc (NASDAQ: HEES) (Q1) EPS estimates of 12 cents, compared to 17 cents in prior-year quarter.



Canada

Featured Earnings

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (T.POT) (Q1) EPS estimates of 16 cents, compared to 44 cents in prior-year quarter.

BCE Inc. (T.BCE) (Q1) EPS estimates of 84 cents, identical to prior-year quarter.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (T.FFH) (Q1) EPS estimates of $14.07, compared to $9.71 in prior-year quarter.

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (T.AEM) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of one cent compared to gain of 15 cents in prior-year quarter.

Economic lookahead

Average Weekly Earnings (Feb) Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $953 in January, down 0.7% from the previous month. Compared with 12 months earlier, average weekly earnings were up only 0.4%.


Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Personal Income and Outlays (Mar)

Employment Cost Index (Q1)

Chicago PMI (Apr.)

Consumer Sentiment (Apr.)


Featured Earnings

Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) (Q1) EPS estimates of 29 cents, compared to $1.17 in the prior-year quarter. Oil production started this week under budget and ahead of schedule at Exxon Mobil’s Julia oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, The first production well is now online and a second well will start production in the coming weeks The Julia development is located approximately 265 miles southwest of New Orleans in water depths of more than 7,000 feet.


Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) (Q1) EPS estimates of 89 cents, compared to $1.51 in the prior-year quarter.


Canada

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Feb.) Real gross domestic product rose 0.6% in January, a fourth consecutive monthly increase.

Industrial Product Price Index (Mar.) The Industrial Product Price Index declined 1.1% in February, led by lower prices for energy and petroleum products.

Raw Materials Price Index (Mar.) This index fell 2.6%, mainly as a result of lower prices for crude energy products.

Featured Earnings

Imperial Oil Limited (T.IMO) (Q1) EPS estimates for loss of seven cents, compared to a gain of 47 cents in the prior-year quarter.