PowerHouse Week for Economic Calendar

This week's economic calendar kicks off Monday at 10 a.m. with Consumer Confidence. Tuesday we have GDP-adv. at 8:30 a.m. followed by the Chicago PMI at 9:45 a.m. and Crude Inventories at 10:30 a.m.

While the recent run-up in Crude prices has many looking for this week's inventories report the market will be waiting anxiously for Tuesday's 2:15 p.m. FOMC policy statement. General consensus amongst investors calls for a 25 basis point cut at the meeting. Wednesday at 8:30 we have Personal Spending, Core PCE Inflation and Initial Claims.

This week's economic calendar is a powerhouse on the earnings front with a large portion of the S&P 500 reporting. In the table below I have listed some of the more notable companies reporting this week.

Monday October 29th

American Financial Group (AFG)

Ashland (ASH)

Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)

HERTZ CORP (HTZ)

Humana Inc. (HUM)

Kellogg Co. (K)

Northwest Airlines Corporation (NWA)

Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI)

RadioShack Corporation (RSH)

Verizon (VZ)

Vulcan Materials (VMC)

Tuesday October 30th

ACTIONS SEMICONDUCTOR CO LTD (ACTS)

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASX)

Automatic Data Processing (ADP)

BASF (BASFY.PK)

Beckman Coulter (BEC)

Bemis Company, Inc. (BMS)

Ceradyne (CRDN)

China Petroleum & Chemical (SNP)

Colgate-Palmolive (CL)

Commercial Metals Company (CMC)

Community Health Systems, Inc. (CYH)

Corn Products International (CPO)

Energizer, Inc. (ENR)

FirstEnergy (FE)

FirstService (FSRV)

FREIGHTCAR AMERICA INC (RAIL)

Kyocera Corporation (KYO)

Luxottica Group (LUX)

Martin Marietta Materials (MLM)

Newport Corporation (NEWP)

Perot Systems (PER)

Procter & Gamble Company (PG)

Standard Motor Products (SMP)

The PMI Group, Inc. (PMI)

UBS (UBS)

Wynn Resorts, Limited (WYNN)

Wednesday October 31th

Advance Auto Parts (AAP)

ALCATEL-LUCENT (ALU)

Cabot (CBT)

Deutsche Bank (DB)

GlobalSantaFe Corp. (GSF)

Manitowoc (MTW)

Omnicare (OCR)

Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU)

Rockwell Collins, Inc. (COL)

Sanofi-Aventis (SNY)

Transocean Inc. (RIG)

Visteon Corporation (VC)

Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY)

Wyndham Worldwide (WYN)

Thursday November 1st

ABN Amro Holdings (ABN)

American Superconductor (BEBE)

CABELAS INC (CAB)

Callaway Golf (ELY)

Cbeyond Inc. (CBEY)

CBS CORP NEW (CBS)

Coinstar, Inc. (CSTR)

Credit Suisse Group (CS)

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS)

Eastman Kodak Company (EK)

Eldorado Gold Corporation (EGO)

ExxonMobil Corporation (XOM)

Global Industries (GLBL)

Human Genome Sciences (HGSI)

ImmunoGen, Inc. (IMGN)

LaBarge, Inc. (LB)

Marathon Oil Corporation (MRO)

Neurogen Corporation (NRGN)

Numerex Corp. (NMRX)

O'Charleys Inc (CHUX)

OfficeMax (OMX)

Otter Tail Power (OTTR)

Owens Corning (OC)

Rogers Corporation (ROG)

Rowan Companies, Inc. (RDC)

Ruddick Corporation (RDK)

Sprint Nextel Corporation (S)

Swift Energy (SFY)

Talisman Energy (TLM)

Tesoro Corporation (TSO)

Unilever N.V. (UN)

Unilever PLC (UL)

VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN)

West Pharmaceutical Services (WST)

Westlake Chemical Corporation (WLK)

Friday November 2nd

Black Hills Corporation (BKH)

Elizabeth Arden (RDEN)

Pioneer Drilling Company (PDC)

The Washington Post Company (WPO)