Upcoming S&P 500 Earnings Releases: Check out the earnings parade of the big companies Before The Bell: American Electric Power Airgas, Inc. Allegheny Technologies The Boeing Company Bristol-Myers Squibb Caterpillar Inc. Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc General Dynamics Hudson City Bancorp Eli Lilly Lorillard, Inc. Molex Inc. Motorola Solutions, Inc. The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Nielsen Holdings NV Northrop Grumman Norfolk Southern Corp Prologis Inc Thermo Fisher Scientific WellPoint, Inc. Wyndham Worldwide After The Bell: ASSURANT INC Akamai Technologies Inc. AvalonBay Communities Crown Castle International Corp. Citrix Systems Equifax Inc. E*Trade Financial Corp F5 Networks Leggett & Platt Lam Research LSI Corp. O`Reilly Automotive Stericycle Symantec AT&T Inc. Teradyne Inc Torchmark TripAdvisor Inc Varian Medical Systems, Inc. Important Data Releases: UK: 4:30AM EST Bank of Englandwill release MPC Asset Purchase Facility Votes and MPC Official Bank Rate Votes. The BOE's MPC meeting minutes contain the asset purchase vote and the interest rate vote for each MPC member during the most recent meeting. The breakdown of votes provides insight into which members are changing their stance on asset purchases and interest rates, and how close the committee is to enacting a change in the future. Canada: Bank of Canada will release these following data: 10:00AM EST BOC Rate Statement,which is the primary tool the BOC uses to communicate with investors about monetary policy, and Overnight Rate, which measures the interest rate at which major financial institutions borrow and lend overnight funds between themselves. 10:30AM EST BOC Monetary Policy Report, which provides valuable insight into the bank's view of economic conditions and inflation, affecting the future of monetary policy and interest rate decisions. 11:15AM EST BOC Press Conference, which covers in detail the factors that affected the most recent interest rate decision and clues about future monetary policy. New Zealand: 5:45PM EST Statistics New Zealand will release Trade Balance,which measures the difference in value between imported and exported goods during the reported month. China: 9:45PM EST Markit will release HSBC Flash Manufacturing PMI,which measures the level of a diffusion index based on surveyed purchasing managers in the manufacturing industry.