Financial Agenda – Week of October 27 to 31, 2025
Monday, October 27 – Calm Before the Storm
Meme stocks to watch: Beyond Meat (BYND), Kohl’s (KSS).
IPO Watch: MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT), HW Electro (HWEP), Navan (NAVN).
Dividends: Realty Income (O), Morgan Stanley (MS), Cal-Maine (CALM), Citizens Financial (CFG).
Expected Results: Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), NXP Semiconductors (NXPI), Welltower (WELL).
Macro: Richmond Manufacturing Index (3:00 p.m.).
Tuesday, October 28 – Focus on Consumption and Payments
Key Results:
Visa (V), UnitedHealth (UNH), Booking Holdings (BKNG), Royal Caribbean (RCL), UPS (UPS), Mondelez (MDLZ), PayPal (PYPL).
- Options: high volatility expected for Bloom Energy (BE) and Wayfair (W).
Events:
- Adobe MAX 2025 Conference (San Francisco) – participation from NVDA, AMZN, DELL.
- Ira Sohn San Francisco Conference – possible impact on certain stocks after hedge fund speeches.
- Walmart at the RBC Consumer Investor Day.
- S&P/Case-Shiller House Price Index (9:00 a.m.).
- Liquidia (LQDA) R&D Day (2:00 p.m.).
- CB Consumer Confidence (time to be confirmed).
Wednesday, October 29 – Fed and Big Tech Day
Major Results: Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOG), Meta (META), Caterpillar (CAT), Boeing (BA), Verizon (VZ).
- High volatility expected for Carvana (CVNA) and Centene (CNC).
Macro:
- 3:00 p.m.: Pending Home Sales m/m
- 7:00 p.m.: Federal Funds Rate + FOMC Statement
- 7:30 p.m.: Jerome Powell's Press Conference
Crucial day for global markets – expected volatility in the dollar, US indices and gold.
Thursday, October 30 – Super Thursday: Apple, Amazon, ECB and US GDP
Key Results: Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Eli Lilly (LLY), Merck (MRK), Mastercard (MA), Comcast (CMCSA), Gilead (GILD).
- High movement potential for Shake Shack (SHAK) and Roblox (RBLX).
Major Events:
- APEC Summit 2025 (Gyeongju, South Korea) – Trump / Xi Jinping meeting.
- Core Scientific (CORZ) Vote on acquisition offer by CoreWeave ($9B).
- Honeywell Spin-off → Solstice Advanced Materials (SOLSV).
- 7:15 a.m.: ECB Decision + press conference.
- Advance GDP (Q3), GDP Price Index, Core PCE Price Index (m/m) – crucial data on US inflation and growth.
- 5:00 p.m.: Amazon earnings call (focus: AWS, AI, advertising, holiday sales, automation).
Friday, October 31 – Oil, inflation and month-end close
Results: ExxonMobil (XOM), Chevron (CVX), AbbVie (ABBV), Charter (CHTR).
Macro:
- Core PCE Price Index (Fed’s preferred inflation indicator).
- Employment Cost Index (q/q) – key labor cost indicator.
Last day of October with data likely to influence December rate expectations.
