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Next Week's Earnings Calendar...

Next week will be another busy earnings stretch with some notable names reporting across a myriad of sectors that epitomize the good, the bad and the ugly.

First, the good... biotech has been one of the best performing sectors in a year of general market apathy.  The group will be front and center early next week and here are some of the names to watch:

ESRX  GILD  MRK  PFE  VRTX  AMGN  SGEN 


The bad sectors are kind of like the food at a sports bar... it's all varying degrees of bad but none of it is good.

Let's start with the least bad.  Technology has been a mixed bag thus far with some names showing upside lately (i.e. GOOG and FB).  Other parts of the sector have been burned, however.  Cloud computing and virtual storage stocks have been punished and a strong quarter can do a lot to turn the tide back in their favor.  Here are the names reporting next week:

AKAM  EQIX  TWTR  YELP  FB  WDC  FEYE  LNKD  SSYS  YNDX  STX


The debate surrounding the soundness of Chinese markets has been one story line throughout the second quarter and next week we'll hear from a couple of notable Chinese stocks (or at least stocks that are heavily exposed to China):

BIDU  WYNN


Financials have been a mixed bag... the sector's performance has mirrored that of the overall market.  Financials reporting next week include:

AMT  MA  MET 


Finally, the ugly.  Natural resources and energy stocks have gotten slammed this year as the rising dollar and supply/demand imbalances have caused the sectors to readjust.  Next week, we'll get a look at the toll falling commodity prices have had on corporate bottom lines with the following names:

ARG  APC  NOV  HES  APD  COP  FLR  LINE  MPC  VLO  CVX  XOM  PSX


Other notable names reporting next week include:

CTRP  GPN  SPWR  SCTY  EA  DECK  EXPE  PG  TMUS


With all of the upcoming announcements, it is reasonable to assume that we will see idiosyncratic and systemic volatilites.  Tomorrow, I will outline some trades to try to capture that vol.

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