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The day ahead in business

Major earnings: AOL Inc., Hershey Co., Mattel Inc., News Corp., Time Warner Inc., Visa Inc., Whirlpool Corp., Yum Brands

The day ahead in business

Reports: ISM manufacturing index for January, 9 a.m.; Construction spending for December, 9 a.m.; Automakers release vehicle sales for January.

Major earnings: ADM, Boston Scientific Corp., Electronic Arts Inc., Massey Energy Co., Pfizer Inc., UPS Inc.

The day ahead in business

Reports: Personal income/spending, 7:30 a.m.; Chicago PMI, 8:45 a.m.

Major earnings: Alberto Culver Co., Exxon Mobil Corp., Gannett, Illinois Tool Works Inc.,

The day ahead in business

Reports: Weekly jobless claims, 7:30 a.m.; Durable goods for December, 7:30 a.m.; Phome sales index for November, 9 a.m.; Pending home sales index for November, 9 a.m.; Freddie Mac releases weekly mortgage rates at 9 a.m.

Hearings: Senate Budget Committee hearing on the budget and economic outlook for 2011-2021.

Local earnings: Caterpillar Inc., Motorola Solutions Inc.

Other major earnings: Altria Group Inc., Amazon.com Inc., AT&T Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Colgate-Palmolive Co., DR Horton Inc., Eli Lilly & Co., JetBlue Airways Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Nintendo, Procter & Gamble Co., Time Warner Cable Inc.

The day ahead in business

Reports: New home sales for December, 9 a.m.; Federal Reserve announces decision on interest rates.

International: Opening of annual World Economic Forum.

Local earnings:
Abbott Laboratories, Boeing Co., Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., United Continental Holdings Inc.

Other major earnings:
ConocoPhillips, Eastman Kodak Co., General Dynamics Corp., Netflix Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Starbucks Corp., United Technologies Corp., US Airways Group Inc., Valero Energy Corp., WellPoint Inc., Xerox Corp.

The day ahead in business

Reports: S&P/Case-Shiller index of home prices for November, 8 a.m.; Consumer Confidence Index for January, 9 a.m.

Meetings: Federal Reserve meets to discuss interest rates.

Local earnings: Calamos Asset Mangement Inc., DeVry Inc., First Busey Corp., John B. Sanfillipo & Son Inc., Molex Inc., PrivateBancorp Inc., Tellabs Inc., WMS Industries Inc., W.W. Grainger Inc.

Other major earnings: 3M Co., Coach Inc., Corning Inc., E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., EMC Corp., Harley-Davidson Inc., Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark Corp., Norfolk Southern Corp., United States Steel Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Yahoo Inc. releases quarterly financial results.

The day ahead in business

Local earnings: McDonald’s Corp.

Other major earnings: American Express Co., Amgen Inc., CSX Corp., Halliburton Co., McClatchy Co., Texas Instruments Inc.

The day ahead in business

Major earnings: Bank of America Corp.; General Electric;

HP directors to probe Hurd’s departure

A committee of Hewlett-Packard directors will investigate former CEO Mark Hurd’s departure from the company amid sexual harassment allegations last year, according to a recent court filing.

The inquiry comes in the course of shareholder litigation involving the company. The investigation will be conducted by independent directors who joined HP’s board after Hurd’s departure, assisted by outside lawyers, the Jan. 14 court filing shows. Get the full story »

The day ahead in business

Reports: Housing starts for December, 7:30 a.m.

Major earnings: AMR Corp., EBay Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co.

The day ahead in business

Reports: Retail sales for December, 7:30 a.m.; Consumer Price Index for December, 7:30 a.m.; Industrial production for December, 8:15 a.m.; Business inventories for November, 9 a.m.

Major earnings:Apple Inc., Citigroup Inc., Delta Air Lines, IBM Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co.

The day ahead in business

U.S. stock and bond markets closed for Martin Luther King Day.

Tony Radisson Blu to fill Aqua’s vacant hotel space

Carlson Hotels is planning a $125 million upscale Radisson hotel for the first 18 floors of the Aqua skyscraper downtown.

The hotel, slated to open this fall, would be the first Radisson Blu in the country and is part of the hotel group’s $1.5 billion plan to revitalize the Radisson brand in the United States. The costs are being split 50/50 as part of a joint partnership with Magellan Development Group, the developer of Aqua, the 82-story mixed-use skyscraper known for its swelling wave-like balconies. Get the full story »

The day ahead in business

Reports: Retail sales for December, 7:30 a.m.; Consumer Price Index for December, 7:30 a.m.; Industrial production for December, 8:15 a.m.; Business inventories for November, 9 a.m.

Earnings: Amcol, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Material Sciences

The day ahead in business

Reports: Weekly jobless claims, 7:30 a.m.; Producer Price Index for December, 7:30 a.m.; International trade for November, 7:30 a.m.; Weekly mortgage rates at 9 a.m.

Major earnings: Intel Corp. releases quarterly financial results.