The week ahead in business

Treasury securities auction; earnings from Burger King, Great Southern Bancorp, Goodyear Tire Rubber.

Existing home sales; earnings from AT, Comcast, Lexmark, McDonald’s, UMB Financial, Xerox.

New home sales; earnings from Apple, Assurant, Boeing, Cbiz, Delta Air Lines, Facebook, O’Reilly Automotive, Procter Gamble.

Initial jobless claims; durable goods orders; Kansas City Federal Reserve manufacturing index; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Aetna, Amazon, Cabela’s, Caterpillar, Cerner, Deluxe, General Motors, Leggett Platt, Microsoft, Quest Diagnostics, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Swift Transportation, Verizon Communications.

This story was originally published April 18, 2014 at 10:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead in business."