Calendar: April 17 – April 21

Monday April 17

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian wholesale trade for February. Analyst estimate is a month-over-month decline of 1.6 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian international securities transactions for February.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. Empire State Manufacturing Survey for April.

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. NAHB Housing Market Index for April.

Earnings include: Charles Schwab Corp.; JB Hunt Transport Services Inc.; PrairieSky Royalty Ltd.; State Street Corp.

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Tuesday April 18

China GDP, industrial production, retail sales and fixed asset investment

Euro zone trade deficit

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian CPI for March. The Street is expecting an increase of 0.6 per cent from February and up 4.3 per cent year-over-year.

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian new motor vehicle sales for February. Estimate is a year-over-year rise of 7.0 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. housing starts for March. Consensus is an annualized rate decline of 3.1 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S building permits for March. Consensus is an annualized rate drop of 6.1 per cent.

(11:30 a.m. ET) Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers appear before the House Standing Committee on Finance.

Earnings include: Bank of America Corp.; Bank of New York Mellon; Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; Johnson & Johnson; Netflix Inc.; Prologis Inc.; United Airlines Holdings Corp.

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Wednesday April 19

Japan industrial production

Euro zone CPI

(8:15 a.m. ET) Canadian housing starts for March. Estimate is an annualized rate decline of 3.7 per cent.

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian industrial product and raw materials price indexes for March. Estimates are month-over-month declines of 0.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively.

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian consumer and mortgage credit for February.

(2 p.m. ET) U.S. Beige Book is released.

Earnings include: Abbott Labratories; Alcoa Corp.; Baker Hughes Co.; IBM; Kinder Morgan Inc.; Metro Inc.; Morgan Stanley; Nasdaq Inc.; Rio Tinto ADR; Tesla Inc.; U.S. Bancorp.

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Thursday April 20

Japan trade deficit and machine tool orders

Euro zone consumer confidence

Germany producer prices

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial jobless claims for week of April 15. Estimate is 240,000, up 1,000 from the previous week.

(8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. Philadelphia Fed Index for April.

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. existing home sales for March. Consensus is an annualized rate decline of 1.8 per cent.

(10 a.m. ET) U.S. leading indicator for March.

(11:30 a.m. ET) Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem and Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers appear before the Senate Standing Committee on Banking Commerce and the Economy.

Earnings include: American Airlines Group Inc.; American Express Co.; Blackstone Group Inc.; CSX Corp.; Philip Morris International Inc.; Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.; Union Pacific Corp.

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Friday April 21

Japan CPI

Euro zone manufacturing and services PMI

(8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian retail sales for February. Estimate is a decline of 0.6 per cent from January.

Earnings include: Freeport-McMoran Inc.; HCA Healthcare Inc.; Procter & Gamble Co.; Schlumberger NV