The Week Ahead: Conference Board report on confidence to be released Tuesday

MONDAY

• Earnings reports for Lennar, Paychex, Red Hat and pSivida.

TUESDAY

• Standard & Poor's will release its S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for July.
• The Conference Board will report on the Consumer Confidence Index for September.
• Earnings reports for Carnival, Jabil Circuit, CalAmp, Copart, FactSet Research Systems, Vail Resorts, Neogen, Omnova Solutions, Park City Group and Synnex.

WEDNESDAY

• U.S. Commerce Department will unveil new-home sales data for August.
• Earnings Reports for Landec, Progress Software, Texas Industries and Worthington Industries.

THURSDAY

• U.S. Labor Department will report on weekly jobless claims.
• U.S. Commerce Department will announce durable-goods figures for August.
• The Commerce Department also will release second-quarter gross domestic product numbers.
• Freddie Mac will release the weekly mortgage rates.
• National Association of Realtors will unveil the pending home sales index for August.
• Earnings reports for Discover Financial Services, McCormick & Co., Micron Technology, Nike, Actuant, AZZ Inc., Corgenix Medical, Global Payments, IDT and S&W Seed.

FRIDAY

• U.S. Commerce Department will report on personal income and spending for August.
• Earnings reports for American Greetings, Finish Line, International Minerals and Tianyin Pharmaceutical.

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