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Heavy Week for Earnings


Monday

U.S.

Featured Earnings

Bank of Hawaii Corporation (NYSE: BOH) (Q2) EPS estimates of 94 cents, compared to 95 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Crane Company (NYSE: CR) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.02, compared to $1.06 in the prior-year quarter.

Rockwell Collins Inc. (NYSE: COL) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.58, compared to $1.33 in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Canadian National Railway Company (T.CNR) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.06, compared to $1.15 in the prior-year quarter.

Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

S&P Case Shiller Housing Price Index (May)

Purchasing Managers’ Index – Flash (July)

New Home Sales (June)

Consumer Confidence (July)

Redbook (Weekly)

Featured Earnings

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.54, compared to $1.58 in the prior-year quarter. Celanese announced this week that it successfully completed a debt transaction on July 15, to refinance its secured credit facility with a new credit facility consisting of a $500-million unsecured term loan and a $1 billion unsecured revolver, each maturing in July 2021.

3M Company (NYSE: MMM) (Q2) EPS estimates of $2.08, compared to $2.02 in the prior-year quarter.

Zions Bancorporation (ZION) (Q2) EPS estimates of 42 cents, compared to 41 cents in the prior-year quarter.


Canada

Featured Earnings

DH Corporation (T.DH) (Q2) EPS estimates of 53 cents, compared to 60 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Toromont Industries Ltd. (T.TIH) (Q2) EPS estimates of 49 cents, compared to 46 cents in the prior-year quarter.

WestJet Airlines Ltd. (T.WJA) (Q2) EPS estimates of 26 cents, compared to 49 cents in the prior-year quarter. In mid-July, WestJet announced June 2016 traffic results with a record load factor of 80.4%, an increase of 3.5 percentage points year over year.


Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Durable Goods Orders (June)

Pending Home Sales Index (June)

EIA Petroleum Status Report (July 18-24)

FOMC Meeting Announcement (2 p.m. ET)


Featured Earnings

Boeing (NYSE: BA) (Q2) EPS estimates of $2.31, compared to $1.62 in the prior-year quarter. The plane maker Boeing celebrated 100 years of aerospace leadership and the start of its next century of innovation, during the company's Founders Day Centennial Celebration July 15 at Seattle'sMuseum of Flight. The event includes a first-ever line up of the Boeing Seven Series airplanes: 707, 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777 and 787.

Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) (Q2) EPS estimates of 58 cents, compared to 63 cents in the prior-year quarter. The company has recently been the target of rumours that it plans to buy Kellogg’s.


Canada


Featured Earnings

Loblaw Companies Limited (T.L) (Q2) EPS estimates of 94 cents, compared to 85 cents in the prior-year quarter.

First National Financial Corporation (T.FN) (Q2) EPS estimates of 68 cents, identical to the prior-year quarter. In mid-July, First National Financial Corporation announced its monthly dividend payment of $0.141667 per common share for the period July 1 to July 31. The dividend will be payable on August 15, to shareholders of record at the close of business on July 29

Suncor Energy Inc. (T.SU) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of 24 cents, compared to a gain of 63 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Barrick Gold Corporation (T.ABX) (Q2) EPS estimates of 14 cents, compared to five cents in the prior-year quarter.

Goldcorp Inc. (T.G) (Q2) EPS estimates of four cents, compared to eight cents in the prior-year quarter.


Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

International Trade in Goods (May)

Weekly jobless claims (July 18-24)

Federal Balance Sheet

Money Supply


Featured Earnings

AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.67, compared to $1.50 in the prior-year quarter.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.14, compared to 19 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE: CL) (Q2) EPS estimates of 69 cents, compared to 70 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic Lookahead

Average Weekly Earnings (May) Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $956.00 in April, down 0.3% from the previous month and up 0.2% from 12 months earlier

Featured Earnings

Teck Resources Limited (T.TCK.B) (Q2) EPS estimates of 82 cents, compared to 80 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc. (T.POT) (Q2) EPS estimates of 20 cents, compared to 50 cents in the prior-year quarter.

TransCanada Corporation (T.TRP) (Q2) EPS estimates of 52 cents, compared to 56 cents in the prior-year quarter. In mid-July, TransCanada, along with the senior representatives of the four major pipeline unions and the Pipe Line Contractors Association of Canada came together to sign a historic Memorandum of Understanding for work on the Energy East Pipeline Project.

Thomson Reuters Corporation (T.TRI) (Q2) EPS estimates of 48 cents, compared to 52 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (T.FFH) (Q2) EPS estimates of gain of $3.67, compared to a loss of $8.87 in the prior-year quarter.

Cenovus Energy Inc. (T.CVE) (Q2) EPS estimates of loss of 21 cents, compared to a gain of 18 cents in the prior-year quarter.


Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Q2a)

Chicago PMI (July)

Consumer Sentiment (July)

Farm Prices (July)

Featured Earnings

Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) (Q2) EPS estimates of 33 cents, compared to 30 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) (Q2) EPS estimates of 64 cents, compared to $1.00 in the prior-year quarter.

Merck & Company Inc. (NYSE: MRK) (Q2) EPS estimates of 92 cents, compared to 86 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic lookahead

GDP (May) After decreasing in February and March, real gross domestic product edged up 0.1% in April.

Industrial Product Price Index (June) This index increased 1.1% in May, mainly due to higher prices for energy and petroleum products.

Raw Materials Price Index (June) This index rose 6.7%, led by a gain in prices for crude energy products.

Featured Earnings

Enbridge Inc. (T.ENB) (Q2) EPS estimates of 52 cents, compared to 60 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Imperial Oil Limited (T.IMO) (Q2) EPS estimates of four cents, compared to 52 cents in the prior-year quarter.

CGI Group Inc. (T.GIB.A) (Q2) EPS estimates of 89 cents, compared to 80 cents in the prior-year quarter.

George Weston Limited (T.WN) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.49, compared to $1.33 in the prior-year quarter.