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Monday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

New Home Sales (Sept.)

Featured Earnings

2U Inc (NASDAQ: TWOU) (Q3) EPS estimates for loss of 27 cents compared to a loss of 18 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) (Q3) EPS estimates of 88 cents compared to 84 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Luxottica Group (NYSE: LUX) (Q3) EPS estimates of 50 cents compared to 48 cents in the prior-year quarter.


Tuesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Durable Goods Orders (Sept.)

Redbook (Weekly)

S&P Case-Shiller HPI (Aug.)

PMI Services Flash (Oct.)

Consumer Confidence (Oct.)


Featured Earnings

AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.48 compared to $1.51 in the prior-year quarter.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) (Q3) EPS estimates of 32 cents compared to 25 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) (Q3) EPS estimates of 35 cents compared to 45 cents in the prior-year quarter. Bristol-Myers Squibb announced last week that 17 abstracts have been accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 2015, taking place in San Francisco in mid-November.


Wednesday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

International Trade in Goods (Sept.)

EIA Petroleum Status Report (Oct. 22-28)

FOMC Meeting Announcement (2 p.m.)

Featured Earnings

Celadon Group Inc. (NYSE: CGI) (Q1) EPS estimates of 39 cents, compared to 35 cents in the prior-year quarter. In early October, the company announced the sale of a tractor portfolio and minority investment in a tractor financing joint venture to support its Quality Companies business.

F5 Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) (Q4) EPS estimates of $1.40, compared to $1.29 in the prior-year quarter.

General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) (Q3) EPS estimates of $2.10, compared to $2.05 in the prior-year quarter. Last week, the U.S. Navy awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat subsidiary a $24.1-million U.S. contract modification to perform reactor-plant planning yard services for nuclear submarines and support-yard services for moored training ships.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (T.AEM) (Q3) EPS estimates of four cents, compared to two cents in the prior-year quarter.

Open Text Corporation (T.OTC) (Q1) EPS estimates of 78 cents, compared to 97 cents in the prior-year quarter. Open Text announced last week the launch of OpenText™ Content Access for eDOCS, a new addition to the OpenText™ eDOCS family of products. Content Access for eDOCS enables users to access business documents stored in their eDOCS document repository directly from third-party applications, such as billing and time management, ERP, CRM, or matter-specific business applications.

Barrick Gold Corporation (T.ABX) (Q3) EPS estimates of seven cents, compared to 19 cents in the prior-year quarter.


Thursday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Q3)

Weekly jobless claims (Oct. 22-28)

Pending Home Sales (Sept.)

Federal Balance Sheet

Featured Earnings

Western Union (NYSE: WU) (Q3) EPS estimates of 43 cents, compared to 44 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (NYSE: TEVA) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.28, compared to $1.32 in the prior-year quarter.

Sherwin-Williams Co. (NYSE: SHW) (Q3) EPS estimates of $3.89, compared to $3.39 in the prior-year quarter.


Canada

Economic lookahead

The Industrial Product Price (Sept.) This index declined 0.3% in August, mainly as a result of lower prices for energy and petroleum products.

The Raw Materials Price Index (Sept.) This index declined 6.6% in August, led by lower prices for crude energy products.


Featured Earnings

Constellation Software Inc. (T.CSU) (Q3) EPS estimates of $4.23, compared to $3.27 in the prior-year quarter. Late in September, Constellation announced its Perseus division had met the closing conditions and finalized the acquisition of the Market Leader business from Zillow Group.

Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (T.FFH) (Q3) EPS estimates of $11.35 compared to $20.68 in the prior-year quarter.


Friday

U.S.

Economic lookahead

Personal Income and Outlays (Sept.)

Employment Cost Index (Q3)

Chicago Purchasing Managers Index (Oct.)

Consumer Sentiment (Oct.)

Featured Earnings

Anheuser-Busch Inbev Sa/Nv (NYSE: BUD) (Q3) EPS estimates of $1.27 compared to $1.42 in the prior-year quarter.

Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) (Q3) EPS estimates of 72 cents compared to 76 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Weyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) (Q3) EPS estimates of 27 cents compared to 33 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic lookahead

Gross Domestic Product (Aug.) Real GDP grew 0.3% in July, after rising 0.4% in June, and following five consecutive monthly declines

Featured Earnings

Cameco Corporation (T.CCO) (Q3) EPS estimates of 30 cents, compared to 23 cents in the prior-year quarter. Late in September, Cameco and AREVA officially marked the start of production at the Cigar Lake uranium mine and McClean Lake mill at the minesite in northern Saskatchewan