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Monday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Purchasing Managers Index—Manufacturing (July)

Institute for Supply Management – Manufacturing Index (July)

Construction Spending (June)

Featured Earnings

Williams Companies Inc. (NYSE: WMB) (Q2) EPS estimates for 19 cents, compared to 15 cents in prior-year quarter.

MeetMe Inc. (NASDAQ: MEET) (Q2) EPS estimates for five cents, compared to two cents in prior-year quarter.

Sabra Healthcare REIT Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA) (Q2) EPS estimates for 56 cents, compared to 53 cents in prior-year quarter.


Canada

Markets closed for Civic Holiday

Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Personal Income and Outlays (June)

Redbook (Weekly)

Featured Earnings

CyrusOne Inc (NASDAQ: CONE) (Q2) EPS estimates for 60 cents, compared to 50 cents in prior-year quarter. In mid-July, CyrusOne completed construction of a new data hall on its data center campus in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler, Ariz. The data hall added 36,000 colocation square feet (CSF) to the Chandler campus with two megawatts of power capacity.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. (NYSE: FDP) (Q2) EPS estimates for $1.24, compared to $1.20 in prior-year quarter. In mid-July, Fresh Del Monte’s subsidiary, Del Monte International, GmbH, was awarded more than $32 million in damages, interest and other monetary relief against Inversiones y Procesadora Tropical, S.A. by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. The ICC’s award also recognized that Del Monte has a right to virtually all of the gold pineapple vegetative material on INPROTSA’s plantation

LifeLock Inc. (NYSE: LOCK) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of six cents, compared to gain of three cents in prior-year quarter.


Canada

Featured Earnings

Saputo Inc. (T.SAP) (Q1) EPS estimates for 40 cents, compared to 34 cents in prior-year quarter.



Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

ADP Employment Report (July)

EIA Petroleum Status Report (July 25-Aug. 1)

PMI Services Index (July)

ISM Non-Mfg. Index (July)

Featured Earnings

3D Systems Corporation (NYSE: DDD) (Q2) EPS estimates of one cent, compared to a loss of two cents in prior-year quarter. Last week, 3D announced that its end-to-end digital design and manufacturing solutions led to the enhanced mobility of a disabled African penguin at Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Ct.

Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.28, compared to $1.44 in prior-year quarter.

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.17, compared to $1.24 in prior-year quarter.

Canada


Featured Earnings

WSP Global Inc. (T.WSP) (Q2) EPS estimates of 61 cents, compared to 51 cents in prior-year quarter.

Agrium Inc. (T.AGU) (Q2) EPS estimates of $4.09, compared to $4.90 in prior-year quarter.

Tourmaline Oil Corp. (T.TOU) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of 13 cents, compared to two cents in prior-year quarter.

Finning International Inc. (T.FTT) (Q2) EPS estimates of 23 cents, compared to 40 cents in prior-year quarter.

Veresen Inc. (T.VSN) (Q2) EPS estimates of six cents, compared to four cents in prior-year quarter.



Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Factory Orders (June)

Weekly jobless claims (July 25-August 1)

Federal Balance Sheet

Money Supply


Featured Earnings

Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) (Q2) EPS estimates of 53 cents, compared to 63 cents in prior-year quarter.

FTD Companies Inc. (NASDAQ: FTD) (Q2) EPS estimates of 75 cents, compared to 79 cents in prior-year quarter.

MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) (Q2) EPS estimates of 25 cents, compared to 17 cents in prior-year quarter.

Canada


Featured Earnings

BCE Inc. (T.BCE) (Q2) EPS estimates of 91 cents, compared to 87 cents in prior-year quarter.

Canadian Natural Resources Limited (T.CNQ) (Q2) EPS estimates for loss of 29 cents, compared to gain of 16 cents in prior-year quarter. In mid-July, news reports circulated that Canadian Natural Resources had bought up about12,000 natural gas wells across Alberta over the last two years, pushing past Encana as Canada's top natural gas producer.
Manulife Financial Corporation (T.MFC) (Q2) EPS estimates of 46 cents, compared to 44 cents in prior-year quarter.

Great-West Lifeco Inc. (T.GWO) (Q2) EPS estimates of 67 cents, compared to 66 cents in prior-year quarter.


Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Employment Situation (July)

International Trade (June)

Consumer Credit (June)

Featured Earnings

E.W. Scripps Company (NYSE: SSP) (Q2) EPS estimates for gain of 15 cents, compared to loss of 15 cents in prior-year quarter.

Media General Inc. (NYSE: MEG) (Q2) EPS estimates of 17 cents, compared to four cents in prior-year quarter.

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) (Q2) EPS estimates of 20 cents, compared to 26 cents in prior-year quarter.



Canada

Economic lookahead

Labour Force Survey (July) Employment was unchanged in June. The unemployment rate declined 0.1 percentage points to 6.8%

Canadian international merchandise trade (June) Canada's exports fell 0.7% to $41.1 billion in May, while imports decreased 0.8% to $44.4 billion. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade deficit with the world in May was virtually unchanged compared with April at $3.3 billion.

Featured Earnings

TELUS Corporation (T.T) (Q2) EPS estimates of 70 cents, compared to 56 cents in prior-year quarter. In mid-July, TELUS Health entered into an agreement to acquire the Canadian business of Nightingale Informatix Corp., including its proprietary Electronic Medical Record (EMR) software solutions and related assets.

Power Financial Corporation (T.PWF) (Q2) EPS estimates of 77 cents, compared to 79 cents in prior-year quarter.

Power Corporation of Canada (T.POW) (Q2) EPS estimates of 74 cents, compared to 91 cents in prior-year quarter.

Magna International Inc. (T.MG) (Q2) EPS estimates of $1.35, compared to $1.19 in prior-year quarter. In mid-July, Magna received notice of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer made by TRC Capital Corporation to purchase up to 2,500,000 Magna Common Shares, or approximately 0.63% of Magna's outstanding Common Shares, at a price of $41.85 per share. Magna is making it plain it did not endorse the offer.