The week ahead: Housing numbers and earnings reports will be issued

MONDAY: U.S. financial markets closed for Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

TUESDAY: Housing market index; Treasury securities auction; earnings from IBM, Netflix.

WEDNESDAY: Housing starts; earnings from Deluxe Corp., eBay, U.S. Bancorp.

THURSDAY: Initial jobless claims; Bloomberg consumer comfort index; earnings from Key Corp., Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Union Pacific, Verizon Communications.

FRIDAY: Existing home sales; leading economic indicators; earnings from General Electric, Honeywell, Kansas City Southern, McDonald’s, State Street Corp.

This story was originally published January 16, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "The week ahead: Housing numbers and earnings reports will be issued."