The week ahead in business

Retail sales; Treasury securities auction; earnings from American Airlines, Citigroup, J.B. Hunt Transport Services.

Consumer price index; ICSC-Goldman Sachs store sales; earnings from Coca-Cola, Intel, Johnson Johnson, Yahoo.

Housing starts; Federal Reserve Beige Book report on regional economic conditions; industrial production; earnings from American Express, Bank of America, Google, IBM, Kansas City Southern, U.S. Bancorp.

Initial jobless claims; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, KeyCorp, PepsiCo, Union Pacific, UnitedHealth Group.

This story was originally published April 11, 2014 at 9:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead in business."