Financial Options

Each of the upcoming economic indicators will be linked in this post as they become available. See more general information at the end of this post to help you follow these releases as they come out through the week.

Monday, August 21, 2006: The Conference Board will release its indexes of leading and coincident indicators for France. [Leading down 0.2%; Coincident up 0.1%]

Monday Treasury Schedule: 11 AM Eastern 4-Week T-Bill Announcement; 1 PM Eastern 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bill Auction

Monday Earnings: Bob Evans Farms [Ticker: BOBE ; Industry: Restaurants ], Hastings Entertainment [Ticker: HAST ; Industry: Specialty Retail, Other ]

Tuesday, August 22: The Conference Board will report on leading and coincident indicators for Mexico. [Leading down 0.1%; Coincident up 0.2%] State Street Associates will release their State Street Investor Confidence Index, [Index at 83.1] which measures investor sentiment by surveying the risk level of institutional investment portfolios.

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

Tuesday Earnings: Jack Henry and Associates [Ticker: JKHY ; Industry: Business Software & Services ] This major supplier of the software that runs most US banks is headquartered 18 miles down the road in little Monett, Missouri., Toll Brothers Inc [Ticker: TOL ; Industry: Residential Construction ] Major luxury home builder.

Wednesday, August 23: Leading and coincident indicator indexes for Spain will be released by the Conference Board. [Leading up 0.6%; Coincident up 0.3%] Two housing market indicators due out today with the Weekly Mortgage Market Survey from the Mortgage Bankers Association and the Existing Home Sales for July from the National Association of Realtors. [Purchase Mortgage Applications Down 1%; Mortgage Rates Decrease; Existing Home Sales Down 4.1%] The Energy Department will release its weekly petroleum data summary and This Week in Petroleum newsletter. [Crude oil inventories 330.4 million barrels, refineries at 92.8%]

Wednesday Treasury Schedule: No auctions or announcements scheduled.

Wednesday Earnings: BHP Billiton Ltd [Ticker: BHP ; Industry: Industrial Metals & Minerals ] Market cap over $100 billion, this is just a huge company.

Thursday, August 24: The Conference Board will release the leading and coincident indicator indexes for Germany. [Leading down 0.3%; Coincident up 0.3%] The Commerce Department will report on New Home Sales and Durable Goods Orders for July. [New Home Sales Down 4.3%; Durable Goods Down 2.4%] The Employment and Training Administration will issue its weekly Jobless Claims report. [Down 3.2%]

Thursday Treasury Schedule: 11 AM Eastern announcements for 3-Month and 6-Month T-Bills and 2-Year and 5-Year Notes.

Thursday Earnings: Benihana Inc [Ticker: BNHNA ; Industry: Restaurants ] There's no Benihana's here, but I love me some teppanyaki steak and calamari or salmon or shrimp or..., Freds Inc [Ticker: FRED ; Industry: Discount, Variety Stores ] Fred's has some bargains. Makes Wal-Mart look expensive. On the other hand, also makes Wal-Mart look like they got the high quality China sweatshop merchandise...

Friday, August 25: No major economic indicators are slated for release Friday.

Friday Treasury Schedule: No auctions or announcements scheduled.

Friday Earnings: Royal Bank of Canada [Ticker: RY ; Industry: Foreign Money Center Banks ]

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.

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