Upcoming S&P 500 Earnings Releases: Check out the earnings parade of the big companies Before The Bell: Alexion Pharmaceuticals AutoNation Franklin Resources Ball Corp. Bemis Company, Inc. Boston Scientific Corp. Cameron Coca-Cola Enterprises CMS Energy Corp. Celgene Corp. Colgate-Palmolive Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. The Dow Chemical Company EQT Corp Ford Motor Company FLIR Systems, Inc. Starwood Hotels & Resorts The Hershey Company International Paper Co. Southwest Airlines McKesson Corp. Mead Johnson Nutrition 3M Company Altria Group, Inc. Noble Energy, Inc. Precision Castparts PulteGroup, Inc. Raytheon T. Rowe Price Group Inc Xcel Energy Xerox Corp. Zimmer Holdings, Inc. After The Bell: Amazon.com Inc CA, Inc. Chubb Corp. Cerner Corp. Cincinnati Financial Corp. Cliffs Natural Resources Inc Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. Eastman Chemical Company Express Scripts Holding Co Flowserve Corp. KLA-Tencor Microsoft The Principal Financial Group VeriSign, Inc. Western Digital Corp. Important Data Releases: Europe: Markit will release French Flash Manufacturing PMI at 3:00AM EST and German Flash Manufacturing PMI at 3:30AM EST,which measure the level of a diffusion index based on surveyed purchasing managers in the manufacturing industry. US: 8:30AM EST Bureau of Economic Analysis will release Trade Balance,which measures the difference in value between imported and exported goods during the reported month. Please note that the release date has been delayed by 16 days due to the US government shutdown. 10:00AM EST Census Bureau will release New Home Sales,which measures annualized number of new single-family homes that were sold during the previous month. UK: 12:45PM EST Bank of England will release BOE Gov Mark Carney Speaks at the 125th anniversary of the Financial Times, in London. As head of the central bank, which controls short term interest rates, he has more influence over the nation's currency value. Traders examine his public engagements to drop subtle clues regarding future monetary policy.