The week ahead in business

MONDAY:

Treasury securities auction; earnings from NASB Financial, QC Holdings, Seaboard.

TUESDAY:

International trade; ICSC-Goldman Sachs store sales index; earnings from Emerson Electric, Walt Disney, Whole Foods.

WEDNESDAY:

Consumer credit; productivity and costs; earnings from Anheuser-Busch InBev, AOL, Atmos Energy, Tallgrass Energy Partners, Westar.

THURSDAY:

Chain store sales; initial jobless claims; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Great Plains Energy.

FRIDAY:

This story was originally published May 2, 2014 at 11:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead in business."