Chicago Tribune

October 29, 2006
Monday: -- September personal income and spending -- Earnings: ABN Amro Holding NV; Ashland Inc.; Diebold Inc.; FPL Group Inc.; Humana Inc.; MetLife Inc.; Principal Financial Group Inc.; Republic Services Inc.; Simon Property Group Inc.; Verizon Communications Inc.

Tuesday: -- Third-quarter employment cost index -- October consumer confidence -- Earnings: Agere Systems Inc.; Automatic Data Processing Inc.; Biogen Idec Inc.; Celanese Corp.; CNA Financial Corp.; Cummins Inc.; Eastman Kodak Co.; Equity Office Properties Trust; Heidrick & Struggles International Inc.; Loews Corp.; Marathon Oil Corp.; Molson Coors Brewing Co.; Procter & Gamble Co.; Qwest Communications International Inc.; Rogers Communications Inc.; Safeco Corp.; UAL Corp.; Under Armour Inc.; Visteon Corp.

Wednesday: -- October Institute for Supply Management index -- September construction spending -- Earnings: Allied Waste Industries Inc.; Burger King Holdings Inc.; Cigna Corp.; Clorox Co.; Conseco Inc.; Devon Energy Corp.; Dominion Resources Inc.; Electronic Data Systems Corp.; First Potomac Realty Trust; Marsh & McLennan Cos.; MasterCard Inc.; Newmont Mining Corp.; Noble Energy Inc.; Prudential Financial Inc.; ServiceMaster Co.; Sunoco Inc.; Time Warner Inc.; UnumProvident Corp.

Thursday: -- Third-quarter productivity -- September factory orders -- Earnings: AmerisourceBergen Corp.; Barrick Gold Corp.; Becton, Dickinson and Co.; CA Inc.; Caremark Rx Inc.; CenterPoint Energy Inc.; CVS Corp.; Huron Consulting Group Inc.; International Paper Co.; JDS Uniphase Corp.; MGM Mirage; Nationwide Financial Services Inc.; PMI Group Inc.; Qualcomm Inc.; Sabre Holdings Corp.; Transocean Inc.

Friday: -- October employment report -- Earnings: Ameren Corp.; Health Net Inc.; Inland Real Estate Corp.; KeySpan Corp.; Medco Health Solutions Inc.; Peoples Energy Corp.; Washington Post Co.; Westar Energy Inc.