9:00am (EST)
It looks like the market is going to start off slightly lower as the Asian markets fell overnight. The bulls took the Dow higher for the second straight week and will be looking for a big push as we near resistance.
As far as economic news this week, the government will release housing-starts and building-permits data for February on Tuesday, with both expected to post modest declines from January. Housing starts are at an extremely low level and we will need to see some improvement here.
Meanwhile, the Department of Labor will report the February reading of the consumer price index on Thursday.
Earnings for the Week (quotes are from Friday):
Monday: 3Com (COMS, $7.74, flat), AgFeed Industries (FEED, $4.76, up $0.04), Athenahealth (ATHN, $38.13, down $0.07), Michael Baker (BKR, $35.77, down $0.03), Overstock.com (OSTK, $14.53, flat), Sterling Construction Company (STRL, $21.15, up $0.13) and Zoom Technologies (ZOOM, $7.59, up $0.14).
Tuesday: Cloud Peak Energy (CLD, $16.52, up $0.28), DSW (DSW, $29.28, up $0.17), Emdeon (EM, $16.50, down $0.01), FactSet Research Systems (FDS, $71.18, down $0.23), Focus Media Holding (FMCN, $16.43, up $0.14) and rue21 (RUE, $31.95, up $0.95),
Wednesday: Actuant (ATU, $19.61, down $0.09), Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM, $9.41, up $0.12), Herman Miller (MLHR, $20.07, down $0.38), Nike (NKE, $69.90, up $0.15) and Tootsie Roll (TR, $28.02, up $0.03).
Thursday: Charles River Associates (CRAI, $27.93, down $0.94), FedEx (FDX, $86.18, down $0.31), Gamestop (GME, $19.21, down $0.14), K-Tron (KTII, $149.66, up $0.01), Palm (PALM, $5.53, down $0.04) and Ross Stores (ROST, $52.92, up $0.31),
Friday: Eldorado Gold (EGO, $13.25, down $0.01) and Perry Ellis International (PERY, $21.82, up $0.39).
One stock getting a pop this morning before the bell is Baidu (BIDU, $550.24, down $3.86). Shares are up $22.76 to $573 in pre-market trading on the uncertainty of Google (GOOG, $579.54, down $1.61) shutting down its China site due to censorship issues. Goog’s is down over $10…
As we head to press, Dow futures are off 18 points to 10,555 while the S&P 500 futures are lower by 3 to 1,143. The Nasdaq 100 futures are down 4 points to 1.920.
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