Today’s Markets?
In Asia, Japan?+1.9%?to 8830. Hong Kong?-1.6%?to 21109. China?-1.2%to 2030. India?-0.8%?to 18471.?
In Europe, at midday, London?-0.4%. Paris?-0.4%. Frankfurt?-0.5%.?
Futures at 7:00:?Dow?+0.1%. S&P?+0.2%. Nasdaq?+0.2%. Crude?+0.15%to $86.45. Gold?-0.45%?to $1722.40.
Economic calendar and Fed Speak
8:30 Consumer Price Index,?Empire State Mfg Survey and?Initial Jobless Claims
9:00 Fed’s Lacker: U.S. Economic Outlook
9:45 Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index
10:00 Philly Fed Business Outlook
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
11:00 EIA Petroleum Inventories
1:20 PM Bernanke: ‘Housing and Mortgage Markets’
4:30 PM Money Supply, Fed Balance Sheet and?Fed’s Plosser: ‘Money, Markets and Government’
Earnings
Applied Materials,?Aruba Networks,?Autodesk,?Bon-Ton Stores,?Brady, The Buckle, Canadian Solar,?Children’s Place Retail Stores,Dell, Destination Maternity, Dollar Tree,??Dole Food,?GameStop,?Gap,?Helmerich & Payne,?Intuit,?Marvell, Michaels Stores, Perry Ellis,?Ross Stores,?Sears, Sna?Stage Stores,?Target, TransDigmViacom,?Wal-Mart Stores?WMT, Wet?Seal?
Stories
House GOP Raps Corzine Over MF From Wall Street Journal
MF Global accused of misleading regulators From Financial Times
Outdated Account Practices Threaten Clearing Firms, Report Says From Traders Mag
Stock futures cede gains; Wal-Mart off on results From MarketWatch
High Frequency Trading From Colbert Nation