Week ahead in business at a glance

At a glance Today

Treasury bill auction.

Quarterly earnings reports due from Amgen, Kraft Foods, Tyson Foods, Verizon Communications and Wm. Wrigley Jr.

Conference Board releases the consumer confidence index for July.

Standard &Poors/Case Shiller home price index for May is released.

Quarterly earnings reports due from Electronic Arts, Northrop Grumman, Viacom, Centex, Colgate-Palmolive, Hanesbrands, MetLife, Pilgrim's Pride, United States Steel, Valero Energy and Waste Management.

Quarterly earnings reports due from Walt Disney, IAC/InterActiveCorp, Comcast, Avon Products, Corning, Office Depot, Prudential Financial, Reynolds American, Starbucks and Visa.

Commerce Department reports on second-quarter gross domestic product.

Labor Department reports on weekly jobless benefit claims.

Freddie Mac reports on mortgage rates.

Quarterly earnings reports due from Aetna, Altria Group, American Electric Power, Cablevision Systems, CBS, CVS Caremark, Eastman Kodak, ExxonMobil, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, International Paper, Kellogg, Marathon Oil, MasterCard, Motorola and Newell Rubbermaid.

Labor Department reports on nonfarm employment and the unemployment rate for July.

Commerce Department reports on construction spending for June.

Major automakers report U.S. auto sales.

Quarterly earnings reports due from Chevron, Cigna, KBR, NYSE Euronext, Sun Microsystems and Washington Post.

Source: The Associated Press