BNN Bloomberg sets up the week ahead with what investors need to know.

Monday, January 21 (U.S. markets closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

- Notable data: China GDP, retail sales and industrial production

- International Monetary Fund releases World Economic Outlook Update (8 a.m. ET)

- Ontario Premier Doug Ford delivers speech to Economic Club in Toronto (12 p.m. ET)

- U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May expected to present new Brexit to Parliament

 

Tuesday, January 22

- Notable earnings: IBM, Halliburton, Johnson & Johnson

- Notable data: Canadian wholesale trade, Canadian manufacturing sales, U.S. existing home sales

- World Economic Forum annual meeting begins in Davos; Canadian government sending ministers of foreign affairs, economic development, and international trade diversification (runs to Jan 25)

 

Wednesday, January 23

- Notable earnings: Canadian Pacific Railway, AGF Management, Ford Motor Co., United Technologies, Procter & Gamble, Texas Instruments

- Notable data: Canadian retail sales

- CIBC's annual Whistler investor conference begins

 

Thursday, January 24

- Notable earnings: Rogers Communications, Freeport-McMoran, Starbucks, Intel, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines

- Notable data: StatsCan EI report

- European Central Bank releases interest rate decision (7:45 a.m. ET)

- U.S. Energy Information Administration releases 2019 outlook

 

Friday, January 25

- Notable data: U.S. new home sales