Mas utilidades, GDP (PBI) indicadores de las casas
Ventas de casas nuevas y existentes, primera lectura del GDP. Debate de G-20 sobre las divisas.
Se espera que las petroleras reporten menores utilidades debido a la baja de produccion y el dolar debil. Pero los precios entre $70 y $80 ayudara a los productores de petroleo a reportar mejores utilidades que el anio pasado. Reportan ConocoPhillips la tercera compania en tamanio, reporta el Miercoles, Exxon la mas grande del mundo reporta el Jueves, Chevron la segunda mas grande reporta el proximo Viernes.
Las grandes quimicas DuPont reporta el Martes y Dow Chemical el Jueves, probablamente se beneficiaron del aumento de la demanda.
Las companias de defensa reportan despues que Lockheed Martin Corp. dijo esta semana que sus ganancias habian bajado 28% a pesar de su aumento en ventas, los inversionistas estan enfocados en si el recorte del presupuesto militar va a afectarlas. General Dynamics Corp. y Northrop Grumman Co., las dos reportan el Miercoles, al dia siguiente Raytheon Corp.
Las cias de seguros de voda, Aflac y Metlife reportan el Martes y el Jueves, respectivamente, las dos deben reportan mejores resultados por la mejoria en el stock market.
El Jueves reporta Microsoft, se esperan buenos resultados para la gigante debido al aumento de la demanda de sus dos productos mas grandes Windows y Office. Sin embargo, los inversionistas esta excepticos acerca de los nuevos mercados de consumidores, especificamente internet seach (busqueda) y telefonos celulares, donde rivales Google y Apple estan superandola. Mientras tanto chip maker Texas Instruments y Broadcom Corp. el Lunes y Martes, respectivamente, las dos deben reportar mejores resultados.
Las ventas de casas nuevas y existentes, saldran el Lunes y Miercoles, respectivamente, habrian aumentado 3% en Agosto.
El Martes el S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index reportara el Lunes.
On Deck Next Week: More Earnings, GDP, Housing Data
By Kathy Shwiff
The flood of third-quarter earnings reports continues next week, with six components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and one-third of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index posting results. Figures on new- and existing-home sales in September will be released next week, and the government will issue its first reading on third-quarter gross domestic product. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 nations are meeting through Saturday amid an acrimonious global debate over currencies:
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations will meet through Saturday in South Korea in advance of the meeting of G-20 leaders next month. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is calling on the world’s largest economies to refrain from using their exchange rates to grow at the expense of their trade partners. His words come amid intensifying scrutiny of China, whose decision to allow greater flexibility in the yuan’s exchange rate earlier this year has so far failed to lead to the kind of appreciation that the U.S. and much of Europe feel is necessary.
U.S. major oil companies’ third-quarter earnings are expected to be lower than the previous quarter due to seasonal production declines, the weaker U.S. dollar and slow recovery in the refining sector. But oil prices between $70 and $80 a barrel will help producers report better results than the same quarter in 2009, when oil prices traded in the low end of the range. ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U.S. oil company, reports Wednesday; the world’s largest publicly traded oil company, Exxon Mobil Corp., on Thursday; and Chevron Corp., the second-largest in the U.S., next Friday.
Big chemical companies DuPont Co., which reports Tuesday, and Dow Chemical Co., on Thursday, likely benefited from rising demand in the third quarter. DuPont’s results will be skewed as the prior-year period had $117 million of tax benefits from currency hedging. Operating results for Dow, the largest U.S. chemical company by revenue, should rise on higher demand and selling prices as well as its acquisition of Rohm & Haas, which helped generate increased business and cost savings.
More U.S. defense companies will report next week after Lockheed Martin Corp. this week said its third-quarter profit dropped 28% despite higher revenue, as a charge for an executive-buyout program weighed on the bottom line. Investors are looking for more information on the impact of slowing military budgets after the Pentagon last month detailed an overhaul of its buying process. General Dynamics Corp. and Northrop Grumman Co. both report Wednesday, followed a day later by Raytheon Corp.
Life insurers Aflac Inc. and MetLife Inc., which report Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, both are expected to post improved results from a year earlier as they benefit from rising stock markets. The rising yen also will help Aflac, which earns most of its revenue in Japan, while MetLife, the largest U.S. life insurer, had big investment losses in the prior-year quarter.
Results are projected to grow at software giant Microsoft Corp., which reports Thursday, as it continues to benefit from strong demand for its two biggest products Windows and Office. However, investors are skeptical about its push into newer consumer markets, namely Internet search and mobile phones, where rivals Google Inc. and Apple Inc. are thriving.
Meanwhile, chip makers Texas Instruments Inc. and Broadcom Corp., which report Monday and Tuesday, respectively, are expected to post improved results. TI has reported some weakness in consumer markets, while demand for smartphone chips, Broadcom’s specialty, remains strong.
Figures on September existing- and new-home sales, out Monday and Wednesday, respectively, both are expected to show increases of about 3% from August, according to economists polled by Briefing.com. Sales of both types of homes dropped in July from a month earlier. New homes sales were flat in August, while sales of existing homes grew 7.6% from July. Data on August prices is due Tuesday from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index and the Federal Housing Finance Agency
Earnings, On Deck Tomorrow