Apr 13, 2018
The week ahead: BoC decision, Canadian earnings season ramps up
By Noah Zivitz
Monday, April 16
- Notable earnings: Aphria, Netflix, Bank of America
- Notable data: U.S. retail sales
- Bombardier CSeries General Manager Rob Dewar delivers remarks at Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montreal (8:40 a.m. ET)
- Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare and Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu speak at Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montreal (12:30 p.m. ET)
- Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains delivers remarks at Aerospace Innovation Forum in Montreal (2 p.m. ET)
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Paris
Tuesday, April 17
- Notable earnings: Goldman Sachs, IBM, CSX, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth
- Notable data: Canadian manufacturing sales, Canadian international securities transactions, U.S. housing starts, U.S. industrial production, Chinese GDP, Chinese retail sales, Chinese industrial production
- Aphria to release details about recreational cannabis branding at event in Toronto (8:30 a.m. ET)
- IMF/World Bank spring meetings begin in Washington, D.C.
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London
-U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago
Wednesday, April 18
- Notable earnings: Canadian Pacific Railway, Roots, Morgan Stanley, Alcoa, Kinder Morgan
- Bank of Canada releases interest rate decision and monetary policy report (10 a.m. ET) and holds news conference (11:15 a.m. ET)
- U.S. Federal Reserve releases Beige Book (2 p.m. ET)
- New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley delivers remarks on economic outlook (3 p.m. ET)
Thursday, April 19
- Notable earnings: Rogers Communications, DavidsTea
- Notable data: StatsCan EI report
- Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante delivers speech to Montreal Chamber of Commerce (11:30 a.m. ET)
- GMP Securities hosts cannabis conference in Toronto
- OPEC and non-cartel nations start two-day ministerial meeting on production
- Liberal Party hosts national convention in Halifax
Friday, April 20
- Notable earnings: GE, Procter & Gamble, Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Honeywell
- Notable data: Canadian retail sales, Canadian CPI
- National Bank holds annual meeting in Drummondville, Quebec (10 a.m. ET)
- Rogers Communications holds annual meeting in Toronto (11 a.m. ET)
