Earnings season is in full swing and this coming week will bring many key earnings reports. This will also be the last week of major on-calendar earnings for the third quarter, even if important earnings will still be coming out in the next two weeks or three weeks.
Apple Inc. (AAPL) is set to report earnings on Monday after the closing bell.
Merck & Co. (MRK) is set to report on Monday and estimates are $0.88 EPS, down from $0.95 EPS a year ago.
Pfizer Inc. (PFE) reports on Tuesday and earnings are expected to be $0.56 EPS versus $0.53 EPS a year ago.
Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) reports on Wednesday and earnings are expected to be $0.61 EPS versus last year's third quarter report of $0.46 EPS.
Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) reports earnings on Wednesday afternoon.
American International Group (AIG) reports on Thursday and estimates are $ EPS and $ billion in sales. While this is no longer a DJIA stock and while it is no longer beholden to the US government, AIG remains very systemically important. The insurance giant is expected to have earnings of $0.94 EPS versus $1.00 EPS a year ago. Revenue is expected to be down 1.4% to $8.63 billion. AIG's share price of $51.85 is within $1.50 of a pre-meltdown high and the company's market cap is $76.5 billion.
ConocoPhillips (COP) is set to report earnings on Thursday morning and estimates are $1.44 EPS.
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) also reports on Thursday morning.
MasterCard Inc. (MA) reports on Thursday and estimates are $6.94 EPS versus $6.17 EPS a year ago.
Chevron Corp. (CVX) is due to report on Friday morning and will be the last of the major oil giants to report earnings.
Remember me talking about trading/investing is like running a business? Well to get a general feel of your business and what your customers are thinking. It is good to pay attention to earning of others business it helps set the mood of possibility of your customers/consumers also.
 So how did we do this past week with SLOW MONEY OPTIONS? 4 trade recommendations that I shared. SPY call I got over anxious and ending up losing 5% on the trade by not paying attention to the bollinger bands. AGAIN I did do well on the SPY puts 8% gain the AAPL trades both generated 12% & 5% gains. Not much excitement and that is always what I prefer.
Remember always take the more conservative spread is the reason that I give you choices. What I do is take all my recommendations just split the money between choices. You can trade just enough to give you an extra days results of trading or trade enough to give you a weeks worth of trading. The choice is yours take responsibility.
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