MONDAY: Factory orders; Treasury securities auction; earnings from Ameristar, HCA Holdings, Humana, Leggett & Platt, NASB Financial, Ralcorp Holdings.

TUESDAY: ICSC-Goldman Sachs store sales; earnings from Alliant Techsystems, Arch Coal, Archer Daniels Midland, Cerner, Emerson Electric, Inergy, Inergy Midstream, Jack Henry, Panera Bread, Walt Disney.

WEDNESDAY: Earnings from Allstate, Assurant, Atmos Energy, Compass Minerals, CVS, O’Reilly Automotive, Time Warner.

THURSDAY: Chain store sales; initial jobless claims; productivity and costs; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Flowers Foods, McClatchy, NIC, Sprint.

FRIDAY: International trade; wholesale trade; earnings from AOL, YRC Worldwide.