Stock and bond markets are closed Monday for the🍨 Presidents Day ho𓆉liday. 

Walmart (WMT) earnings are expected to highlight the week. U.S.-traded Chinese e-commerce firms Alibaba (BABA) and Baidu (BIDU) are also scheduled to report, as well as online used-auto retailer Carvana (CVNA) and electric vehicle maker Rivian Automotive (RIVN). 

Investors are watching for minutes from the January 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Federal Open Market Commit🐼tee (FOMC) meeting, while the Federal Reserve speaker schedule this week includes Philad꧂elphia Fed President Patrick Harker and San Francisco Fe൲d President Mary Daly.

Several housing 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:indicators are also expected this week, along with manufacturing s💃ector and consumer sentime⛄nt data.

Monday, Feb. 17

• Stock and bond markets closed for Presidents Day holiday
• Philadelphia Fed President Harker is scheduled to deliver remarks
• UFP Industries (UFPI) scheduled to report earnings

Tuesday, Feb. 18

• Empire State Manufacturing survey (February)
• Homebuilder confidence index (February)
• San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly is scheduled to deliver remarks
• Arista Networks (ANET), Medtronic (MDT), Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), Occidental Petroleum (OXY), and Baidu scheduled to report earnings

Wednesday, Feb. 19

• Housing starts/Building permits (January)
• Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) January meeting minutes
• HSBC Holdings (HSBC), Analog Devices (ADI), Carvana, Manulife Financial (MFC), and Garmin (GRMN) scheduled to report earnings
• Apple (AAPL) product launch scheduled

Thursday, Feb. 20

• Initial jobless claims (Week ending Feb. 15)
• Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey (February)
• U.S. leading economic indicators (January)
• Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee and St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem are scheduled to deliver remarks
• Walmart, Alibaba, Southern Co. (SO), Block (XYZ), Rivian, and Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) scheduled to report earnings

Friday, Feb. 21

• S&P flash U.S. Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) (February)
• Consumer sentiment (final) (February)
• Existing home sales (January)
• United States Cellular (USM) scheduled to report earnings

Holiday-Shortened Week Features FOMC Minutes, Fed Representatives' Remarks, Housing Data

Stock and bond markets⛎ are closed on Monday for the P💛residents Day holiday. 

Wednesday’s release of Federal Reserve meeting minutes for January will show the deliberations behind the central bank’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged, providဣing potential insight into rate paths in the fღuture. 

Following 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s test🐠imony to Congress last week, several other Fed officials are slated to deliver remarks this week, including Philadelphiaജ Fed President Patrick Harker, San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly, Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, and St. Louis 😼Fed President Alberto Musalem.

Several pieces of housing market data are expected, including January data on existing home sales, which 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:hit a 30-year low in late 2024. The homebuilder confidence survey on Tuesday comes as the residential construction industry has 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:signaled enthusiasm about business in 2025. 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:Housing starts data ꦰscheduled for release 🃏Wednesday will provide insight into the pace of residential construction.

The scheduled release of the final February survey on consumer sentiment comes as inflation worries weighed on the 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:survey’s preliminary results earlier this month. 

Investors are also watching for regional manufactu𒁃ring surveys, preliminary Purchasing Maﷺnagers’ Index results for February, and weekly jobless claims data. 

Walmart, Chinese ꩲE-Commerce Firms Highlight Corporate꧟ Calendar This Week

Walmart is scheduled to report earnings on Thursday as the retail giant looks to 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:keep up its momentum after its prior quarterly report beat analyst estimates for both revenue and earnings. The company’s strong performance came as e-commerce revenue rose by 27% and advertising revenue was up 28%. The report comes as competitor Amazon (AMZN) recently delivered a 澳✃洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:softer-than-expected sales forecast.

U.S.-traded Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is scheduled to issue its quarterly financial results, which comes as the company is reportedly 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:teaming up with Apple to develop Apple Intelligence features for iPhones in China. The company reported 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:better-than-expected profit for the prior quarter, but its sales results came up short. U.S.-traded Chine✃se internet search firm Baidu is expected to report on Tuesday.

HSBC Holdings' scheduled report on Wednesday comes as the British bank 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:reported 5% growth in revenue and follows its announcement that it would conduct another $3 billion 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:stock buyback.

Arista Networks is expected to report on Tuesday, after the cloud network provider posted better-than-expected earnings in the prior quarter but showed a 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:decline in gross margins. 

The expected report from electronic design automation firm Cadence Design Systems comes after it 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:raised itﷺs full-year earnings outlook as ꧂revenue rose by 19% in the prior quarter. Semiconductor maker Analog Devices is a𝓡lso on the corporate earnings calendar this week.

Online used-car seller Carvana is scheduled to issue its quarterly earnings, which come as short-seller Hindenburg Research 𒉰澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:called the company’s 202𒅌4 turnaround a “mirage” due to its sale of subprime loans to unidentified third parties. 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:EV maker Rivian is set to report on Thursday.