The Week Ahead

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A weekly briefing on the economic calendar

Event of the week

Existing-home sales report for December on Tuesday

Monday

Earnings reports: American Express, Kimberly-Clark, Legg Mason, Lexmark, Union Pacific, Netfix

Tuesday

Consumer confidence for January

Earnings reports: Air Tran Holdings, BellSouth, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Merck, New York Times, Sara Lee, Schering-Plough, Southern Co., U. S. Steel, Xerox, Computer Associates, E-Trade, Eletronic Arts, Kraft Foods, Pixelworks, Texas Instruments

Wednesday

Earnings reports: Black & Decker, ConocoPhillips, Eastman Kodak, Eli Lilly, Exelon, Gannett, General Dynamics, Hershey Foods, McCormick, Norfolk Southern, SAP AG ADR, SBC, Sirius Satellite Radio, Altria, Hartford Financial Services Group, Starbucks.

Thursday

Durable goods for December

Earnings reports: Baxter, Bristol-Myers, Caterpillar, Colgate-Palmolive, Dominion Resources, Dow Chemical, Dow Jones, Gillette, Jetblue Airways, Lockheed Martin, Marathon Oil, Nokia, Royal Caribbean, Sears, UPS, Verizon, Microsoft, Molex, Nortel Networks, Stanley Works

Friday

Advance gross domestic product numbers for fourth quarter

Earnings reports: ADM, Chevron Texaco, Halliburton, Honeywell, Procter & Gamble, T. Rowe Price, Tribune, Wrigley