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Big Cap
Earnings Announcements for the Week of
August
29th
Company |
Symbol |
Date |
| Joy Global | JOYG | Monday, August 29 |
| Engineered Support Systems | EASI | Tuesday, August 30 |
| Mobile Telesystems | MBT | Tuesday, August 30 |
| Ciena | CIEN | Thursday, Sep 01 |
| Corinthian Colleges |
COCO | Thursday, Sep 01 |
| Hain Celestial | HAIN | Thursday, Sep 01 |
| SkilSoft | SKIL | Thursday, Sep 01 |
Scheduled Stock Splits for the Week of
August
29th
Company |
Symbol |
Ratio |
Payable |
Ex-Date |
| Standard Pacific | SPF | 2-1 | Aug 29 | Aug 30 |
| Dade Behring | DADE | 2-1 | Aug 29 | Aug 30 |
| DataTRAK | DATA | 3-2 | Aug 31 | Sep 01 |
| Sterling Financial | STSA | 3-2 | Aug 31 |
Sep 01 |
| Equitable Residential | EQT | 2-1 | Sep 01 | Sep 02 |
| Pulte Homes | PHM | 2-1 | Sep 01 |
Sep 02 |
| BJ Services | BJS | 2-1 | Sep 01 |
Sep 02 |
| Ingresoll Rand | IR | 2-1 | Sep 01 |
Sep 02 |
| THQ Inc. | THQI | 3-2 | Sep 01 |
Sep 02 |
| Meridian Diagonstics | VIVO | 3-2 | Sep 02 | Sep 06 |
| Titanium Metals | TIE | 2-1 | Sep 06 | Sep 07 |
Upcoming Economic Events for the Week of
August 29th
| Date | ET | Release | For | Consensus | Prior |
| Aug 30 | 10:00 am |
Consumer Confidence | Aug | 101.5 | 103.2 |
| Aug 30 | 10:00 am |
Factory Orders | July | -2.0% | 1.4% |
| Aug 30 | 2:00 pm | FOMC Minutes | Aug 9 | ||
| Aug 31 | 8:30 am | GDP (Prelim) | Q2 | 3.4% | 3.4% |
| Aug 31 | 8:30 am |
Chain Deflator (Prelim) | Q2 | 2.4% | 2.4% |
| Aug 31 | 10:0 am |
Chicago PMI | Aug | 61.0 | 63.5 |
| Sep 01 | 12:00 pm | Auto Sales | Aug | 5.3M | 5.7M |
Sep 01 |
12:00 pm |
Truck Sales | Aug | 9.2M | 11.3M |
Sep 01 |
8:30 am |
Initial Jobless Claims | 08/27 | 315k | 315K |
Sep 01 |
8:30 am | Personal Income | July | 0.5% | 0.5% |
Sep 01 |
8:30 am |
Personal Spending | July | 1.0% | 0.8% |
Sep 01 |
10:00 am | Construction Spending | July | 0.5% | -0.3% |
Sep 01 |
10:00 am |
ISM Index | Aug | 57.0 | 56.6 |
Sep 02 |
8:30 am |
Nonfarm Payrolls | Aug | 190K | 207K |
Sep 02 |
8:30 am |
Unemployment Rate | Aug | 5.0% | 5.0% |
Sep 02 |
8:30 am | Hourly Earnings | Aug | 0.2% | 0.4% |
Sep 02 |
8:30 am |
Average Workweek | Aug | 33.7 | 33.7 |