On Tap Today: Housing Starts, Earnings Reports by Goldman Sachs, Lehman
Today the market will get earnings releases from companies including
Jabil Circuit
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,
Best Buy
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,
American Greetings
(AM) - Get Report
,
Goldman Sachs
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and
Lehman Brothers
(LEH)
.
Jabil Circuit, a provider of electronic manufacturing services, is slated to report after the close. Twenty-nine analysts polled by
Thomson Financial/First Call
expect the company to earn 16 cents a share. Jabil earned 21 cents in the year-ago period.
Specialty retailer Best Buy is also on the earnings calendar for Tuesday. Wall Street is expecting the company to earn 23 cents a share in the fiscal first quarter. The company earned 34 cents in the year-ago period.
Analysts expect investment banking concern Lehman Brothers to earn $1.14 a share in the second quarter, down from $1.39 during the same period last year. Goldman is expected to earn $1.06 a share for the second quarter, down from $1.48 a year ago. Analysts are expecting American Greetings to post first-quarter earnings of 25 cents, which is well short of the 60 cents the company made in the same period a year ago.
Economic Data
(
Forecasts are from
Reuters
. Times are Eastern. For a longer-term economic calendar and more, see
TSC's
Economic Databank.
)
- 8:30 a.m.:
Housing Starts for May. Source:
Census Bureau. Forecast: 1.593M. Previous: 1.609M.
Building Permits - Forecast: n.a. Previous: 1.587M.
9 a.m.:
BTM-UBSW Weekly Chain Store Sales Index for the week ended June 18. Source:
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and
UBS Warburg. Forecast: n.a. Previous: +0.3%.
9 a.m.:
Redbook Retail Average for the month through June 18, vs. May. Source:
LJR Redbook. Forecast: n.a. Previous: +0.4%.