The week ahead, at a glance

At a glance TODAY National Assn. of Realtors releases existing-home sales for December.Quarterly earnings reports due from Amgen, Apple and Halliburton.TUESDAY Conference Board releases its consumer confidence index.Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller releases an index of November home prices.Quarterly earnings reports due from Yahoo, Corning, Delta Air Lines, Travelers, U.S. Steel and Verizon Communications.WEDNESDAY President Obama delivers the State of the Union address.Business and political leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, for the 40th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps.Federal Reserve announces decision on interest rates.Commerce Department releases new-home sales data for December.Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner testifies at a hearing by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on the Federal Reserve and insurer American International Group.Quarterly earnings reports due from Netflix, McClatchy, Qualcomm, Boeing, UAL and WellPoint. THURSDAY Labor Department releases weekly jobless benefit claims.Commerce Department releases a report on durable goods for December.Quarterly earnings reports due from Occidental Petroleum, Alaska Air Group, Amazon.com, Microsoft and Time Warner Cable. FRIDAY Commerce Department reports on the nation’s gross domestic product for the fourth quarter of 2009.Quarterly earnings reports due from Chevron and Mattel.Associated Press