Morning Market Roundup: Facebook IPO, Japan’s Earnings, EU Still has Problems

Here’s what’s important in the financial world this morning:

Market watchers will have another full week of U.S. economic data and earnings reports to stay busy. The potential Facebook IPO will also garner investor attention while Europe’s problems will continue to lurk.

In Asia, Japanese earnings from the tech giants will be at the forefront this week along with China’s Purchasing Managers’ Index from the government and private versions.

Japanese earnings

• Monday: Toshiba Corp. (TOSYY) and Honda Motor Co.(NYSE:HMC)
• Wednesday: Sharp Corp (SHCAF)
• Thursday: Hitachi Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) and Sony Corp. (NYSE:SNE)
• Friday: Panasonic Corp. (NYSE:PC)

U.S.: In the United States, it will be another very busy week for corporate earnings and on Friday, look for January’s unemployment report.

Economic numbers and Fed Speak

• Monday: EU leaders summit in Brussels, Italy sells bonds, France sells bills, January Eurozone confidence indexes, and December personal income and spending.
• Tuesday: November Case-Shiller home prices and January’s Chicago ISM and Consumer confidence.
• Wednesday: January Eurozone PMI, January Car and truck sales, ADP employment index, Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser speaks, January ISM manufacturing index and December construction spending.
• Thursday: France sells bonds, weekly jobless claims and fourth-quarter productivity.
• Friday: January jobs report, December factory orders and January ISM services index.

[Editor’s note: the above is a cross post that originally appeared on Wall St. Cheat Sheet.]