With earnings season officially winding down, very few companies, and no sector majors are releasing earnings this week, therefore commodity and resource stock prices will react mostly to economic and commodities specific data, for which the calendar is fairly busy.
MONDAY, May 14
Economic Data
None
Resource Companies Reporting Earnings
None
Commodities Calendar
4:00 ET Crop Progress
TUESDAY, May 15
Economic Data
8:30 a.m. Retail Sales; CPI: Empire Manufacturing;
9 a.m. Net Long-Term TIC Flows;
10 a.m. Business Inventories; NAHB Housing Market Index
Resource Companies Reporting Earnings
None
Commodities Calendar
ICE May cocoa futures last trading day
LT: May Cocoa/ Lumber last trading day
ICE June world sugar options expiry
WEDNESDAY, May 16
Economic Data
7:00 a.m. ET. Mortgage Index
8:30 a.m. ET Housing Starts; Building Permits
9:15 a.m. ET Industrial Production/Capacity Utilization
2 p.m. ET FOMC Minutes.
Resource Companies Reporting Earnings
Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc. (NYSE:ANW)
China Precision Steel (NASDAQ:CPSL)
Commodities Calendar
10:30 am. ET Crude Inventories
May Lumber first notice day
ICE June Brent crude oil first notice day
ICE June Brent crude oil last trading day
Liffe May cocoa futures last trading day
THURSDAY, May 17
Economic Data
8:30 a.m. Initial Claims
10 a.m. Philadelphia Fed; Leading Indicators.
Resource Companies Reporting Earnings
none
Commodities Calendar
10:30 EIA Gas Storage
Liffe May cocoa futures first notice day
Nymex June light, sweet crude oil options expiry
FRIDAY, May 18
Economic Data
none
Resource Companies Reporting Earnings
None
Commodities Calendar
May Coffee
ICE May arabica coffee futures last trading day
ICE May arabica coffee futures last trading day
Last Trade Options: May CME Stock Indices*/ CME Emini Stock Indices*/ DJIA/ Jun 10,5,2 yr T-Notes/Bonds/ OJ
ICE June FCOJ options expiry