This week

TUESDAY

■ Commerce Department releases retail sales for October; Labor Department releases the Producer Price Index for October; Commerce Department releases business inventories for September.

■ Dell Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Home Depot Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Staples Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Germany releases its third-quarter growth data.

WEDNESDAY

■ Labor Department releases Consumer Price Index for October; Treasury releases international money flows data for September; Federal Reserve releases industrial production for October; National Association of Home Builders releases housing market index for November.

■ Abercrombie & Fitch Co. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Target Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

THURSDAY

■ Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims; Commerce Department releases housing starts for October; Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, releases weekly mortgage rates.

■ Energy Secretary Steven Chu testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee about the Obama administration's decision to award a half-billion-dollar loan to a solar-panel maker that went bankrupt.

■ Gap Inc. reports quarterly financial results.

■ J.M. Smucker Co. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Sears Holdings Corp. reports quarterly financial results.

■ Dutch grocery chain Royal Ahold NV reports quarterly financial results.

■ Swiss commodities firm Glencore reports quarterly financial results.

FRIDAY

■ Conference Board releases leading indicators for October.

■ H.J. Heinz Co. reports quarterly financial results.