EARNINGS RELEASES
Monday: Aksys Ltd., Hewitt Associates, Sysco Corp.
Tuesday: Deere & Co., Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Wednesday: Hewlett-Packard Co.
Thursday: Barnes & Noble, Dell Inc., DeVry Inc., Gap Inc., Sears Holdings Corp.
Friday: J.M. Smucker Co.
ECONOMIC RELEASES
Tuesday: July producer price index.
Wednesday: July building permits and housing starts, July consumer price index/inflation, July industrial capacity and utilization.
Thursday: July leading indicators; initial claims for unemployment for week ended Aug. 5; Freddie Mac reports on mortgage rates.
GOVERNMENT
Monday: Treasury bill auction.
Thursday: Congressional Budget Office gives summer update to the 2006 federal budget and economic outlook.
STOCK OFFERINGS
During the week: GNC Corp., Pennsylvania-based health food retailer, expecting to raise $423 million in IPO of 23 million shares priced $16-$18. To be traded as GNC on the New York Stock Exchange.
Tuesday: Innerworkings Inc., Chicago-based printing-services company, expecting to raise $95 million in IPO of 10.6 million shares priced $8 to $9. To be traded as INWK on the Nasdaq stock market.
