For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – September 28, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week’s list includes Walgreen (WAG) and Xyratex (XRTX). To see more earnings analysis, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=3207.

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This Week's Events

Five S&P 500 companies are confirmed to report: Constellation Brands (STZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Jabil Circuit (JBL), Nike (NKE) and Walgreen (WAG). A total of 27 companies are on the calendar.

We are still a week away from the "official" start of third-quarter earnings season. Alcoa (AA) will release its results on Oct 7. The majority of companies will not start reporting until the latter half of October, however.

The economic calendar is most active towards the second half of the week with

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Five S&P 500 companies are confirmed to report: Constellation Brands (STZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Jabil Circuit (JBL), Nike (NKE) and Walgreen (WAG). A total of 27 companies are on the calendar.

We are still a week away from the "official" start of third-quarter earnings season. Alcoa (AA) will release its results on Oct 7. The majority of companies will not start reporting until the latter half of October, however.

The economic calendar is most active towards the second half of the week with the release of the ISM manufacturing survey and the monthly employment surveys.

Tuesday: September Conference Board consumer confidence survey, July Case-Schiller home price index Wednesday: September Chicago PMI, September ADP employment survey, final Q2 GDP, weekly crude inventories, weekly mortgage applications Thursday: September ISM manufacturing survey, August personal income and spending, August pending home sales, September auto sales, September Monster employment index, September

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – September 21, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week’s list includes AutoZone (AZO), Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), General Mills (GIS), KB Home (KBH), Lennar (LEN), Paychex (PAYX), CarMax (KMX), Research in Motion (RIMM) and Texas Industries (TXI). To see more earnings analysis, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=3207.

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This Week's Events

We will get another look at initial third-quarter results with 11 S&P 500 companies reporting. Included in this group are AutoZone (AZO), Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), General Mills (GIS), KB Home (KBH), Lennar (LEN) and Paychex (PAYX). A total of 33 companies are on the calendar.

The Fed will hold a 2-day

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We will get another look at initial third-quarter results with 11 S&P 500 companies reporting. Included in this group are AutoZone (AZO), Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), General Mills (GIS), KB Home (KBH), Lennar (LEN) and Paychex (PAYX). A total of 33 companies are on the calendar.

The Fed will hold a 2-day meeting starting on Tuesday. No change in rates is expected at either this or the November meeting. Traders will be looking for insight about the pace of recovery and updates on the various bailout programs.

In addition to the Fed meeting, the economic calendar features August Leading Indicators and home sales data.

Monday: August Leading Indicators Tuesday: Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index Wednesday: FOMC rate decision (about 2:10 pm), weekly crude inventories, weekly mortgage applications Thursday: August existing home sales, weekly initial jobless claims, weekly natural gas inventories Friday: August new home

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By Simon van Norden

Today, we're fortunate to have Simon van Norden, Professor of Finance at HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), as a guest blogger.

"Once you've seen one financial market crisis...you've seen one financial market crisis."

-- Attributed to Federal Reserve Board Governor Kevin Warsh by former US Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Phillip Swagel in The Financial Crisis: an Inside View, March 2009, p. 4.

The financial crisis has set a lot of records so far; it's certainly the worst US banking crisis of my lifetime. Some, as suggested by the above quote, see such crises as unique events; each one is singular and there's not much to be learned about how to handle one from looking at past crises. For example, there's no precedent that I know of for a banking crisis involves the failure of the biggest counterparties for credit default swaps.

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Stocks fell for a second session in a row, extending a global slide, as waning optimism about an economic recovery painted a bearish picture.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which had fallen 187 points on Monday, slipped another 107 points and gave back two weeks of gains as investors sold off stocks.  A strong report on housing starts provided some fillip early in the session but stocks pared gains as the Federal Reserve reported a 1.1% decline in industrial production and concerns about the economy resurfaced.  The S&P 500 also recorded its second consecutive decline, falling 1.3% and the Nasdaq was off 1.1%.  Volume on the NYSE remained modest with only 1.2 billion shares exchanging hands and declining shares outpaced advancing issues by a seven-to-three margin.

Premarket futures are holding steady in front of consumer price data, weekly crude inventory statistics, current account data, the administration's financial regulatory

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For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL - June 15, 2009 - Zacks.com releases the list of companies likely to issue earnings surprises. This week's list includes Adobe Systems (ADBE), Best Buy (BBY), Carnival (CCL), FedEx (FDX) and J.M. Smucker (SJM). To see more earnings analysis, visit http://at.zacks.com/?id=3207.

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The Week's Events

We will see initial second-quarter numbers with Adobe Systems (ADBE), Best Buy (BBY), Carnival (CCL), FedEx (FDX) and J.M. Smucker (SJM) reporting this week. Notably missing from the group are the investment bankers, the surviving members of which have changed to traditional calendar quarters.

Though there are five S&P 500 companies reporting, the earnings calendar is

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We will see initial second-quarter numbers with Adobe Systems (

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Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (

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