The Week of February 14, 2005 and
The Stock Markets

All eyes will be on Fed Chairman Greenspan's semi-annual presentation to Congress this Wednesday.

January Retail Sales and December Business Inventories will be reported Tuesday along with the New York State Manufacturing Index for February.

Wednesday morning, January Housing Starts, Business Permits and Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization all will be released.

Thursday, the Weekly Jobless Claims, January Import/Export prices and January Index of Leading Indicators will all be reported. The Semiconductor Book-To-Bill Report will also be released on Thursday afternoon.

Friday, the January Producer Price Index (PPI) and the February Michigan Sentiment Indicator will be released.