Housing figures front and centre


Monday

U.S.

Featured Earnings

Hasbro Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) (Dec.) EPS estimate of $1.22. The company announced it will webcast presentations from its annual Investor Event at Toy Fair on Friday.

Primerica Inc. (NYSE: PRI) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 77 cents.


Canada

Economic lookahead

Housing Starts (Jan.) Housing starts in Canada were trending at 195,760 units in December compared to 196,430 in November, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Featured Earnings

Great West Lifeco (T.GWO) (Q4) EPS estimates of 60 cents, compared to 37 cents in the same quarter last year.

Tuesday

U.S.

Wholesale Trade (Dec.)

Featured Earnings

FireEye Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE) (Dec.) EPS estimate for loss of 42 cents.

Marsh & McLennan (NYSE: MMC) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 56 cents. Last week, Marsh & McLennan announced the acquisition of The Bond Network, a leading surety bonding agency based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Gencorp (NYSE: GY) (Nov.) EPS estimate of nine cents

Canada

Featured Earnings

CAE Inc. (T.CAE) (Q3 fiscal 2013-14) EPS estimates of 18 cents, identical to the same quarter last year. CAE and French-based Dassault Systemes announced in January an agreement naming CAE as the exclusive Dassault-Approved Training Provider for the newly-launched Dassault Falcon 5X.


Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

EIA Petroleum Report (Feb.3-7)

Featured Earnings

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) (Jan.) EPS estimates of 41 cents. Last week, Cisco and AGT International, a global leader in city solutions, announced a Smart City Global Strategic Alliance that will deliver the promise of the Internet of Everything (IoE) through edge analytics and cloud technologies that dramatically change the way cities are managed and safeguarded.

MetLife (NYSE: MET) (Dec.) EPS estimates of $1.32.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) (Jan.) EPS estimates of 18 cents


Canada


Featured Earnings

Husky Energy (T.HSE) (Q4) EPS estimates of 38 cents, compared to 50 cents in the same quarter last year. Calgary-based Husky) has sanctioned a new crude oil flexibility project at its refinery in Lima, Ohio, which will allow for the processing of up to 40,000 barrels per day of heavy crude feedstock from Western Canada starting in 2017.

Thomson Reuters Corporation (T.TRI) (Q4) EPS estimates of 53 cents, compared to 54 cents in the same quarter last year. Last week, Thomson Reuters announced that it has added its award-winning news sentiment data, including sentiment analysis of Twitter feeds for the first time, to its flagship financial markets desktop Thomson Reuters Eikon.

Rogers Communications Inc. (T.RCI.B) (Q4) EPS estimates of 75 cents, compared to 88 cents in the same quarter last year.

Sun Life Financial Inc. (T.SLF) (Q4) EPS estimates of 67 cents, compared to 76 cents in the same quarter last year. Sun Life has been named among the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, an honour it’s enjoyed for the fourth straight year.

Talisman Energy Inc. (T.TLM) (Q4) EPS estimates of one cent, compared to a loss of a penny in the same quarter last year


Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Weekly Jobless Claims (Feb. 3-7)

Retail Sales (Jan.)

Featured Earnings

Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 30 cents.

Burger King World (NYSE: BKW) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 23 cents

Enbridge Energy (NYSE: EEQ) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 31 cents

Canada

Economic lookahead

New Housing Price Index (Dec.) This index was unchanged in November following a 0.1% advance in October.


Featured Earnings

Teck Resources (T.TCK.B) (Q4) EPS estimates of 44 cents, compared to 61 cents in the same quarter last year. At last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Teck Resources Limited was named one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations for 2014 by media and investment research company Corporate Knights.

Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Import, Export Prices (Jan.)

Industrial Production (Dec.)

University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment (Feb.)

Featured Earnings

Hyatt Hotels (NYSE: H) (Dec.) EPS estimate of 20 cents.

Scripps Networks (NYSE: SNI) EPS estimate of $1.00

Canada

Economic lookahead

Monthly Survey of Manufacturing (Dec.) StatsCan said manufacturing sales increased 1.0% in November to $50.5 billion, the sixth advance in seven months.

Featured earnings

IGM Financial Inc. (T.IGM) (Q4) EPS estimates of 80 cents, compared to 73 cents in the same quarter last year. Winnipeg-based IGM reported preliminary total assets under management of $132.3-billion for January, compared with $123.4 billion the same month the year before.

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