Monday

U.S.

Featured Earnings

Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) (Q2) Reported EPS for $1.05, compared to 95 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Caseys General Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:CASY) (Q2) Reported EPS of $3.65, compared to $3.67Blu in the prior-year quarter.

Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD) (Q4) Reported EPS gain of 46 cents, compared to loss of 67 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Tuesday

U.S.

Economic Lookahead

Consumer price index (Nov.)

Monthly U.S. Federal Budget

Featured Earnings

Johnson Controls International plc (NYSE:JCI) (Q4) Reported EPS of $1.09, compared to 99 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Photronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLAB) (Q1) Reported EPS for 53 cents, compared to 60 cents to the prior-year quarter.

ESSA Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:EPIX) (Q4) Reported EPS for loss of 22 cents, compared to loss of 14in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Transcontinental Inc. (T.TCL.A) (Q4) Reported EPS of 63 cents, compared to 51 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Wednesday

U.S.

Economic Lookahead

Producer price index (Nov.)

FOMC Interest Rate Decision

Featured Earnings

Adobe Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBE) (Q4) Reported EPS of $3.32, compared to $2.78 in the prior-year quarter.

Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN) (Q4) Reported EPS of $4.64, compared to $5.02 in the prior-year quarter.

Nordson Corporation (NASDAQ: NDSN) (Q4) Reported EPS of $2.40, compared to $2.44 in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Featured Earnings

Dollarama Inc. (T.DOL) (Q3) Reported EPS of 86 cents, identical to the prior-year quarter.

EnWave Corporation (T.ENW) (Q4) Reported EPS for loss of one cent, identical to the prior-year quarter.

Thursday

U.S.

Economic Lookahead

Weekly jobless claims (Week of Dec. 9)

Import Price Index (Nov.)

Retail Sales (Nov.)

Business Inventories (Nov.)

Featured Earnings

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) (Q4) Reported EPS of $3.44, compared to $3.10 in the prior-year quarter.

Manchester United PLC (NYSE:MANU) (Q1) Reported EPS for loss of nine cents, compared to loss of seven cents in the prior-year quarter.

Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) (Q1) Reported EPS of 20 cents, compared to 16 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic Lookahead

New Motor Vehicle Sales (Oct.) September new motor vehicle sales totaled 163,280, compared to 153.530 in the prior-year month.

Monthly Survey of Manufacturing (Oct.) Manufacturing sales increased for the third consecutive month, up 0.4% in September mainly on higher sales of petroleum and coal. Excluding this subsector, manufacturing sales declined 0.4%.

Featured Earnings

Awakn Life Sciences Corp (NE:AWKN) (Q3) Reported EPS for loss of three cents, compared to a loss of four cents in the prior-year quarter.

Empire Company Limited (T.EMP.A) (Q3) Reported EPS of 73 cents, compared to 78 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Enghouse Systems Limited (T.ENGH) (Q4) Reported EPS of 42 cents, compared to 32 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Transat A.T. Inc. (T.TRZ) (Q4) Reported EPS loss of 40 cents, compared to a gain of $1.11 the prior-year quarter.

Friday

U.S.

Economic Lookahead

Industrial Production (Nov.)

Capacity utilization (Nov.)

Featured Earnings

Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE:DRI) (Q2) Reported EPS of $1.71, compared to $1.52 in the prior-year quarter.

Winnebago Industries (NYSE: WGO) (Q1) Reported EPS for $1.25, compared to $2.07 in the prior-year quarter.

PhenixFIN Corporation (NASDAQ: PFX) (Q4) Reported EPS of 78 cents, compared to 82 cents in the prior-year quarter.

Canada

Economic Lookahead

CREAstats (Nov.) National home sales fell 5.6% month-over-month in October. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) monthly activity came in 0.9% above October 2022.

Canada's International Transactions in Securities (Oct.) Foreign investors reduced their holdings of Canadian securities by $15.1 billion in September, mainly due to retirements of bonds. Meanwhile, Canadian investors acquired $11.6 billion of foreign securities, ending the third quarter with the largest investment since the fourth quarter of 2021.

Wholesale Trade (Oct.) Wholesale sales (excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain) rose 0.4% to $83.1 billion in September.

Housing Starts (Nov.) The trend in housing starts was higher in October at 256,280 units, up 1% from 253,957 units in September