Financial Options

Each of the upcoming financial items with the exception of Treasury auctions and announcements will be linked in this post as they become available. Housing market indicators will be featured on RealNews under the Housing Market category. Job market indicators wil be featured at Jobs Calling under the Job Market category. International indicators will be featured at Growing Global under the Economic Indicators category. General US economic indicators will be featured on this site, Financial Options, under Economic Indicators category.

The earnings releases listed are companies I've chosen because of their industries, because of market capitalization (the size of the company), because they have local plants in my area or for various other reasons of general interest. Please do not take these as a “recommendation” of any sort. That I list them here simply means that I think the results may be interesting for any number of reason - I may occasionally even choose companies where I expect negative results.

Monday: No indicators are scheduled for release.

Monday Treasury Schedule: 11 AM Eastern 4-Week T-Bill Announcement, 11:30 AM Eastern 3-Month T-Bill Auction, 6-Month T-Bill Auction, 1 PM Eastern 2-Year Note Auction

Monday Earnings: Hasting [Ticker: HAST ; Industry: Specialty Retail, Other ], Walgreen Co. [Ticker:WAG ; Industry: Drug Stores ], Luby's Inc [Ticker: LUB ; Industry: Restaurants]

Tuesday: The Conference Board will release the Consumer Confidence index for March. The Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve will conclude its March meeting and announce its new federal funds interest rate target.

Tuesday Treasury Schedule: 1 PM Eastern 4-Week T-Bill Auction

Tuesday Earnings: HB Fuller Co. [Ticker: FUL; Industry: Specialty Chemicals ], Solexa Inc. [Ticker: SLXA ; Industry: Diagnostic Substances ], Tiffany & Co. [Ticker: TIF ; Industry: Jewelry Stores]

Wednesday: Two weekly releases are it for Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association will release the Weekly Mortgage Market Survey, which includes the numbers of new mortgage applications and a survey of average rates on new mortgages. The Energy Information Administration issues its weekly Petroleum Status Report and This Week in Petroleum newsletter.

Wednesday Treasury Schedule: 1 PM Eastern 5-Year Note Auction

Wednesday Earnings: ACME Communications Inc. [Ticker: ACME ; Industry: Broadcasting - TV ], Ruby Tuesday Inc. [Ticker: RI; Industry: Restaurants], Robbins & Myers Inc. [Ticker: RBN ; Industry: Diversified Machinery]

Thursday: The Commerce Department will release the final fourth quarter Gross Domestic Product numbers and Corporate Profits for the fourth quarter. The Conference Board will release the Help Wanted Index for February, which surveys help-wanted print advertising volume in 51 major newspapers across the country every month. The Labor Department weekly Jobless Claims report is due out Thursday.

Thursday Treasury Schedule: 11 AM Eastern 3-Month T-Bill Announcement, 6-Month T-Bill Announcement

Thursday Earnings: Best Buy Co. Inc. [Ticker: BBY ; Industry: Electronics Stores ]

Friday: The Commerce Department will report on Personal Consumption and Income for February and Factory Orders for February. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey for March is due out Friday.

Friday Treasury Schedule: None

Friday Earnings: Saxon Capital Inc. [Ticker: SAX; Industry: REIT - Residential ] (Saxon is specifically a mortgage REIT), Global Payments Inc. [Ticker: GPN ; Industry: Business Services ]

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