Monday
Markets closed for Family Day, Presidents Day
Tuesday
U.S.
Economic Lookahead
Home builder confidence index (Feb.)
Featured Earnings
Arista Networks Inc. (NYSE:ANET) (Q4) EPS of 51 cents, compared to 46 cents in the prior-year quarter.
Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) (Q3) EPS of $1.36, compared to $1.30 in the prior-year quarter.
Cadence Design Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) (Q4) EPS of $1.51, compared to $1.06 in the prior-year quarter.
Canada
Economic Lookahead
Housing Starts (Jan.) Housing starts in Canada plunged by 13.35% month-over-month to 231,500 units in December 2024, the lowest level in three months and below market expectations of 245,000 units.
Canada’s International Transactions in Securities (Dec.) Canadian investors increased their exposure to foreign securities by $17.8 billion in November, the highest investment since March 2024. Meanwhile, foreign investors acquired $16.4 billion of Canadian securities, led by an unprecedented investment in money market instruments.
CREAstats – MLS Sales (Dec.) National home sales fell 5.8% month-over-month. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) monthly activity came in 19.2% above December 2023.
Featured Earnings
Housing starts (Jan.)
Building permits (Jan.)
Minutes of Fed’s January FOMC meeting
Featured Earnings
Canada
Economic Lookahead
Consumer Price Index (Jan.) CPI rose 1.8% on a year-over-year basis in December, down from a 1.9% increase in November. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.2% in December.
Featured Earnings
Thursday
U.S.
Initial jobless claims (February 15)
U.S. leading economic indicators (Jan.)
Featured Earnings
New Housing Price (Jan.) The national index declined 0.1% on a month-over-month basis in December.
Economic Lookahead
S&P flash U.S. services PMI (Feb..)
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S&P flash U.S. manufacturing PMI (Feb.) |
Consumer sentiment (final) (Feb.)
Existing Home Sales (Jan.)
Featured Earnings
Canada
Economic Lookahead
Retail Sales (Dec.) Retail sales were relatively unchanged in November. Sales were down in six out of nine subsectors, led by lower sales at food and beverage retailers.
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