Patent Infringement | "Looking Ahead to Economic Reports This Week"

By : The New York Times
Source : http://www.nytimes.com
Category : Patent Infringement

ECONOMIC REPORTS Data will include retail sales for March and business inventories for February (Monday); housing starts and industrial production for March (Tuesday); weekly jobless claims, home resales for March, leading economic indicators for March, and the Philadelphia Fed index (Thursday).

CORPORATE EARNINGS Companies scheduled to report results include Citigroup, Gannett, Mattel and Charles Schwab (Monday); Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, State Street, TD Ameritrade, I.B.M., Intel and Yahoo (Tuesday); Abbott Laboratories, Bank of New York Mellon, BlackRock, Halliburton, St. Jude Medical, American Express, eBay, Qualcomm and Yum Brands (Wednesday); Bank of America, Blackstone, Boston Scientific, DuPont, Morgan Stanley, The New York Times, Nokia, Southwest Airlines, UnitedHealth, Verizon Communications, Advanced Micro Devices, E*Trade Financial and Microsoft (Thursday); and General Electric, Honeywell, Kimberly-Clark, McDonald’s and Schlumberger (Friday).

IN THE UNITED STATES On Monday, Oracle’s patent-infringement suit against Google is expected to begin in San Francisco; a House Financial Services subcommittee will conduct a field hearing in Cleveland about the challenges facing community financial institutions in Ohio; and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will conduct a hearing about spending at the General Services Administration.

On Tuesday, a House transportation subcommittee will conduct a hearing about spending at the General Services Administration; and the Senate banking committee will conduct a hearing about reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank.

On Wednesday, Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, will speak at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Washington.

On Friday through Sunday, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will have their spring meetings in Washington.

OVERSEAS On Monday, the World Bank is expected to choose its next president.

On Tuesday, the I.M.F. will release a report on its outlook for world economic growth, and the central banks of India and Canada will make decisions about interest rates.

On Wednesday, the I.M.F. will issue a report on global financial stability.

On Thursday and Friday, trade ministers of the Group of 20 will meet in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/business/economic-reports-for-the-week-of-april-16.html