The Week Ahead: Jobs Data; Exxon Mobil, Twitter, GM Earnings

Next week's calendar features the payrolls report and earnings from Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM), Twitter Inc (TWTR), and General Motors Company (GM)

Jan 30, 2015 at 11:55 AM
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The Labor Department's closely watched nonfarm payrolls report will punctuate another busy week in the earnings confessional, with Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), and General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) among the big names reporting. Below is a brief list of some key market events scheduled for the upcoming week. All earnings dates listed below are tentative and subject to change. Please check with each company's respective website for official reporting dates.

Monday

  • The first week of February kicks off with personal income and spending data, the Markit purchasing managers' manufacturing index (PMI), the Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index, and construction spending. Exxon Mobil (XOM), Advent Software (ADVS), Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF), Hartford Financial (HIG), Owens-Illinois (OI), Pitney Bowes (PBI), and Sysco (SYY) will release earnings.

Tuesday

  • Tuesday's docket includes motor vehicle sales and factory orders. Walt Disney (DIS), BP (BP), Chipotle (CMG), Aetna (AET), Arch Coal (ACI), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Array Biopharma (ARRY), Gannett (GCI), Gilead Sciences (GILD), IAC/InterActiveCorp (IACI), Myriad Genetics (MYGN), National-Oilwell Varco (NOV), New York Times (NYT), Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO), and UPS (UPS) will step into the earnings spotlight.

Wednesday

  • ADP's employment report, the ISM non-manufacturing index, and the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) petroleum status report come out on Wednesday. Merck (MRK), General Motors (GM), Keurig Green Mountain (GMCR), 21st Century Fox (FOXA), Allstate (ALL), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Atmel (ATML), Boston Scientific (BSX), Clorox (CLX), Glu Mobile (GLUU), GW Pharmaceuticals (GWPH), Humana (HUM), iRobot (IRBT), Level 3 Communications (LVLT), Marathon Petroleum (MPC), Motorola Solutions (MSI), NXP Semiconductor (NXPI), Ralph Lauren (RL), Sony (SNE), Suncor Energy (SU), Tableau Software (DATA), Under Armour (UA), Weatherford (WFT), Whirlpool (WHR), and Yum! Brands (YUM) will report earnings.

Thursday

  • On Thursday, weekly jobless claims, productivity and unit labor costs, and international trade data are slated for release. Twitter (TWTR), GoPro (GPRO), LinkedIn (LNKD), Sirius XM (SIRI), Activision Blizzard (ATVI), AstraZeneca (AZN), Buffalo Wilds Wings (BWLD), Dunkin Brands (DNKN), Expedia (EXPE), LeapFrog (LF), Lions Gate Entertainment (LGF), Michael Kors (KORS), Nu Skin (NUS), ON Semiconductor (ONNN), Pandora Media (P), Philip Morris (PM), Sierra Wireless (SWIR), Sprint (S), Symantec (SYMC), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA), and Yelp (YELP) will step into the earnings confessional.

Friday

  • The highly anticipated nonfarm payrolls report comes out on Friday. Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), CBOE Holdings (CBOE), Madison Square Garden (MSG), and Moody's (MCO) will release earnings.
 

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