Week Ahead (Oct 15-19) Catalysts

#1 Earnings Hit Full Stride.
Big names in biotech, technology and financials report this week. Look for moves in XLF, XLK, QQQQ, IBB, KRE.

See Wall Street Journal's complete earnings calendar here. Read Zack's excellent analysis of this weeks coming earnings here.

Heavy Hitters reporting this week include:

Mon. – Citigroup(C), Genentech(DNA)

Tues. – Forest Labs(FRX), State Street(STT), US Bancorp(USB), Jeffries Group(JEF), Wells Fargo(WFC), Intel Corp.(INTC), International Business Machines(IBM), Seagate Technology(STX), Johnson & Johnson(JNJ), Yahoo!(YHOO)

Wed. – Abbott Labs(ABT), BlackRock(BLK), CIT Group(CIT), Coca-Cola(KO), United Technologies(UTX), Altria Group(MO), JPMorgan Chase(JPM), Stryker Corp.(SYK), Teradyne Inc.(TER), E*Trade(ETFC), Washington Mutual(WM), Cbot Holdings(BOT), eBay Inc.(EBAY),

Thur. – Eli Lilly(LLY), United Health(UNH), Bank of NY(BK), St. Jude Medical(STJ), Capital One(COF), Gilead Sciences(GILD), Cerner Corp.(CERN), SanDisk(SNDK), Advanced Micro(AMD), Bank of America(BAC), Baxter Intl.(BAX), Continental Air(CAL), Google Inc.(GOOG), HCA Inc.(HCA), Hershey(HSY), Intuitive Surgical(ISRG), Mohawk Industries(MHK), Mellon Financial(MEL), Nucor Corp.(NUE), PNC Financial(PNC), PPG Industries(PPG), Pfizer Inc.(PFE), Wyeth(WYE), Xilinx(XLNX)

Fri. – Boston Scientific(BSX), Harley-Davidson(HOG), Honeywell Intl.(HON), Schlumberger(SLB), Wachovia Corp.(WB), Caterpillar(CAT), 3M(MMM), McDonald’s(MCD)

#2 Economic Calendar

Oct 15 08:30 NY Empire State Index

Oct 16 09:00 Net Foreign Purchases

Oct 16 09:15 Industrial Production

Oct 16 09:15 Capacity Utilization

Oct 17 08:30 CPI

Oct 17 08:30 Core CPI

Oct 17 08:30 Housing Starts

Oct 17 08:30 Building Permits

Oct 17 10:30 Crude Inventories

Oct 17 14:00 Fed's Beige Book

Oct 18 08:30 Initial Claims

Oct 18 10:00 Leading Indicators

Oct 18 12:00 Philadelphia Fed

#3 Other Events

Mon. – Fed’s Bernanke speaking

Wed. – Fed’s Hoenig speaking,

Fri. – Fed’s Bernanke speaking, Fed’s Poole speaking