The week ahead

Chicago Tribune |

Oct 15, 2006 | 12:00 AM

Monday: -- Earnings: Commerce Bancorp Inc.; Eaton Corp.; W.W. Grainger Inc.; Marshall & Ilsley Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.; Sonic Corp.; Wachovia Corp.

Tuesday: -- September producer price index -- September industrial production -- Earnings: AMB Property Corp.; American Standard Cos.; AmSouth Bancorporation; CBOT Holdings Inc.; EMC Corp.; Intel Corp.; International Business Machines Corp.; Johnson & Johnson; KeyCorp; Linear Technology Corp.; Motorola Inc.; National City Corp.; Office Depot Inc.; Sovereign Bancorp Inc.; State Street Corp.; SunTrust Banks Inc.; United Technologies Corp.; Wells Fargo & Co.; Yahoo Inc.

Wednesday: -- September consumer price index -- September housing starts -- Earnings: Abbott Laboratories; Alliance Data Systems Corp.; Allstate Corp.; Apple Computer Inc.; Boston Scientific Corp.; Capital One Financial Corp.; CDW Corp.; Citrix Systems Inc.; CSX Corp.; E*Trade Financial Corp.; eBay Inc.; General Dynamics Corp.; Illinois Tool Works Inc.; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Juniper Networks Inc.; Mellon Financial Corp.; Northern Trust Corp.; Occidental Petroleum Corp.; Washington Mutual Inc.

Thursday: -- September leading indicators -- Weekly initial jobless claims -- Earnings: Bank of America Corp.; Baxter International Inc.; BB&T Corp.; Bank of New York Co.; Broadcom Corp.; Citigroup Inc.; Coca-Cola Co.; Comerica Inc.; Eli Lilly & Co.; Freescale Semiconductor Inc.; Google Inc.; Hershey Co.; Honeywell International Inc.; Nokia Corp.; Prudential PLC; Quest Diagnostics Inc.; Southwest Airlines Co.; Union Pacific Corp.; UnitedHealth Group Inc.; Wyeth

Friday: -- Earnings: 3M Co.; Caterpillar Inc.; Merck & Co.; Schering-Plough Corp.; Schlumberger Ltd.

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