Looking Ahead.

ECONOMIC REPORTS The data will include retail sales for June and business inventories for May (Monday); the Consumer Price Index for June (Tuesday); housing starts for June and the Federal Reserve report on current economic conditions, known as the beige book (Wednesday); and weekly jobless claims, existing home sales for June and leading economic indicators for June (Thursday). CORPORATE EARNINGS Companies reporting results will include Citigroup and Gannett (Monday); Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Intel and Yahoo (Tuesday); Abbott Laboratories, Bank of America, Honeywell International and I.B.M. (Wednesday); Morgan Stanley, Google, Microsoft and Verizon (Thursday); and General Electric and Xerox (Friday). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]