EARNINGS RELEASES
Monday: Brookstone Inc., Walgreen Co.
Tuesday: Ahold NV, Apollo Group Inc., Koor Industries Ltd., Lifeway Foods Inc., Micron Technology Inc., Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Veritas DGC Inc.
Wednesday: Accenture Ltd., Best Buy Co., CarMax Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., NRG Energy Inc., Ruby Tuesday Inc., Steelcase Inc., UniFirst Corp.
Thursday: A.G. Edwards Inc., Benetton Group Inc., Cognos Inc., Freddie Mac, Red Hat Inc., Mosaic Co., Toys “R” Us Inc.
Friday: CSK Auto Corp., Stephan Co.
ECONOMIC RELEASES
Tuesday: Consumer confidence for March.
Wednesday: Final fourth-quarter gross domestic product.
Thursday: Personal income and spending for February; Chicago purchasing managers index for March; February factory orders; February help-wanted index; initial unemployment claims for week ended March 26; continuing unemployment claims for week ended March 19.
Friday: Change in payrolls and unemployment rate for March; February construction spending; February Institute for Supply Management index; March car and truck sales.
GOVERNMENT
Monday: Treasury bill auction.
Wednesday: Farm prices; Energy Department report on oil and gas inventories in the U.S.
Friday: New Jersey Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner speaks on the “Future of the Federal Reserve” at Princeton University.
TRIALS
Monday-Friday: Richard Scrushy, former chief executive of HealthSouth Corp., in federal court in Birmingham, Ala.; L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz, former CEO and CFO, respectively, of Tyco International Ltd., in New York state court.
STOCK OFFERINGS
During the week: PRB Gas Transportation Inc., oil and gas, IPO
Thursday: Fastclick, Internet, IPO
INDUSTRY EVENTS
Tuesday: Banc of America Securities Media and Entertainment conference in New York.
Wednesday: Lehman Brothers Global Health-Care Conference in Palo Alto, Calif.; Smith Barney Citigroup 2005 Health-Care Conference in Boulder, Colo.; UBS Asset Gathering Conference in New York.
