On Deck Next Week: Wal-Mart Reports

• November 12, 2010, 6:11 PM ET

By Kathy Shwiff

Everett

• Dow Jones Industrial Average components Wal-Mart and Home Depot Inc. and nearly two dozen other companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will report quarterly results next week. Wal-Mart and Home Depot both report Tuesday, a day after Nordstrom Inc. and Lowe’s Cos. Target Corp. will post results Wednesday, followed by Gap Inc. and Sears Holding Corp. on Thursday.
• General Motors is expected to price its initial public offering of 365 million shares Wednesday evening. The estimated price range is $26 to $29. The IPO allows the U.S. to begin offloading the stake it acquired through last year’s rescue of the auto industry. GM will have about 1.5 billion shares outstanding afterward, and the Treasury Department’s stake will fall to as little as 41% from the current 61%.
• Measures of wholesale and consumer inflation likely rose for October, according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com. The Producer Price Index, to be released Tuesday, and Consumer Price Index, out Wednesday, are expected to rise 0.7% and 0.3%, respectively. For September, the PPI grew 0.4% and the CPI ticked up 0.1%.
• The government will report on October retail sales and September business inventories Monday and will release October industrial-production figures Tuesday. Data on October housing starts and building permits will be issued Wednesday.
• On Thursday, the nonprofit Conference Board will release its October index of leading indicators and the Philadelphia Fed will report on regional manufacturing activities.
• Among appearances by Federal Reserve officials: Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker will speak Sunday; Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart is on tap Tuesday; St. Louis Fed President James Bullard will speak Wednesday; Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota appears Thursday in Chicago; Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser will speak Thursday in Washington; and Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak next Friday at the 6th European Central Bank Banking Conference in Frankfurt.
• President Obama has invited Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and other congressional leaders to the White House on Thursday to talk about Bush-era tax cuts and other issues. Even though Republicans chalked up big gains during the midterm elections, those new members won’t be sworn in until January, and Democrats will still control both chambers of Congress until then. Obama will need support from at least a few Senate Republicans to pass any bill related during the lame-duck session, giving McConnell a direct say on what any deal might look like, especially regarding taxes.

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On Deck Next Week: Wal-Mart Reports

• November 12, 2010, 6:11 PM ET

By Kathy Shwiff

Everett

• Dow Jones Industrial Average components Wal-Mart and Home Depot Inc. and nearly two dozen other companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index will report quarterly results next week. Wal-Mart and Home Depot both report Tuesday, a day after Nordstrom Inc. and Lowe’s Cos. Target Corp. will post results Wednesday, followed by Gap Inc. and Sears Holding Corp. on Thursday.
• General Motors is expected to price its initial public offering of 365 million shares Wednesday evening. The estimated price range is $26 to $29. The IPO allows the U.S. to begin offloading the stake it acquired through last year’s rescue of the auto industry. GM will have about 1.5 billion shares outstanding afterward, and the Treasury Department’s stake will fall to as little as 41% from the current 61%.
• Measures of wholesale and consumer inflation likely rose for October, according to economists surveyed by Briefing.com. The Producer Price Index, to be released Tuesday, and Consumer Price Index, out Wednesday, are expected to rise 0.7% and 0.3%, respectively. For September, the PPI grew 0.4% and the CPI ticked up 0.1%.
• The government will report on October retail sales and September business inventories Monday and will release October industrial-production figures Tuesday. Data on October housing starts and building permits will be issued Wednesday.
• On Thursday, the nonprofit Conference Board will release its October index of leading indicators and the Philadelphia Fed will report on regional manufacturing activities.
• Among appearances by Federal Reserve officials: Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker will speak Sunday; Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart is on tap Tuesday; St. Louis Fed President James Bullard will speak Wednesday; Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota appears Thursday in Chicago; Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser will speak Thursday in Washington; and Chairman Ben Bernanke will speak next Friday at the 6th European Central Bank Banking Conference in Frankfurt.
• President Obama has invited Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and other congressional leaders to the White House on Thursday to talk about Bush-era tax cuts and other issues. Even though Republicans chalked up big gains during the midterm elections, those new members won’t be sworn in until January, and Democrats will still control both chambers of Congress until then. Obama will need support from at least a few Senate Republicans to pass any bill related during the lame-duck session, giving McConnell a direct say on what any deal might look like, especially regarding taxes.

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Consumer reports car reliability Survey: G.M. improves, false Audi

Consumer reports has published its annual on the reliability of the car survey results Tuesday and special note of the improvement in General Motors vehicles.

"So that some nameplates G.M. had been less reliable brands in recent years, they have now"
rank above the main European competitors such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz, "said Consumer Reports in a press release."

All brands of G.M. Cadillac improved the most moving up seven places in the ranking of the year at 19 (27 marks).At 17, the highest of all brands of G.M. Chevrolet.However, G.M. models have not yet reached the level of the most reliable Honda and Toyota.

Conducted in the spring, covers the annual on the reliability of the 2010 car survey 1.3 million 2001-10 model year vehicles leased or detainees by subscribers of Consumer Reports.Les results apply to reliability predicted for new cars and vehicles are rated on a scale Much Better than average, Better Than average, average, Worse Than average and Much Worse Than average.

On the whole, Japanese manufacturers were more reliable vehicles, occupies five six premiers.La top brand top slots was scion, surprisingly followed by Porsche, who jumped off six points since year reason makes all the Porsche cars and sole received average score or more.

Porsche Boxster was also predicts better survey reliability status, but it was based on data in one year.Other German manufacturers were among the bottom six manufacturers in terms of fiabilité.Rapports slapped consumer label discouraged on three Audi - a3, A6 with the 3 - litre supercharged engine and the Q5.

Acura, Honda, Infiniti has completed five top marks, followed by Toyota, which fared well despite its safety reminders during the past year.

As last year, Honda and Acura models had average or better predicted reliability, said Jake Fisher, senior engineer at the automated testing organization in Connecticut.The Acura TL and RL received rated best high-end cars and luxe.Le Acura RDX tied with Lexus LX summits in the high range and aggressive luxury.And the Honda CR - V and the Ridgeline finished first for small sole and vans, respectively.

Toyota win top notes in five categories of vehicles: Toyota FJ Cruiser (aggressive midsize enterprises), Siena V-6 with the front-wheel drive (trucks and minivans), Tundra with the V-6 engine (pickup trucks; on a par with the Honda Ridgeline), Yaris (small car) and the Lexus LX.

Ford overcame US manufacturers number 10 and its brand of luxury, Lincoln, ranked 15 ninety per cent of all Ford and Lincolns have rated average or better.

Brands of Chrysler Group have not been as well.Jeep ranked number 20, 24 Dodge and Chrysler last 27 brands in the survey.No model Chrysler scored above average and 12 20 models in the survey scored below average.

Hyundai and Kia, corporate partner has continued although only model faire.Un, the Kia Sedona minivan was lower than the moyenne.Tous six new models for 2010 had average reliability or mieux.Ils were the Hyundai Genesis Coupe, Sonata and Tucson.la Forte Kia Sorento, Soul.Rapports consumers called this "the impressive first year showing."

Editors of the magazine noted that one of the reasons reliability improvement of G.M. was newer models were reliable from the beginning of production, rather than to evolve over the temps.Citons inter alia the Chevrolet Camaro and Equinox.le front-wheel-drive, V-6 Buick LaCrosse.et Cadillac SRX.Une another reason is that GM to get rid of many models that were lower than the average in the reliability when he abandoned Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer brand.

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