Friday’s economic calendar:

8:30 Personal Income and Outlays
9:45 Chicago PMI
9:55 Reuters/UofM Consumer Sentiment

BBY 12:05 AM Notable earnings before Thursday’s open: BBY

RIMM, TIBX 12:10 AM Notable earnings after Thursday’s close: RIMM, TIBX

Thursday’s economic calendar:

8:30 GDP Q4
8:30 Initial Jobless Claims
8:30 Corporate Profits
10:30 EIA Natural Gas Inventory
10:30 Fed’s Lacker: ‘Credit Markets Symposium conference’
11:00 KC Fed Manufacturing
12:15 PM Fed’s Lockhart: European Economic Crisis
12:45 PM Bernanke: ‘The Aftermath of Crisis’
1:00 PM Fed’s Plosser: Economic Outlook
1:00 PM Results of $29B, 7-Year Note Auction
3:00 PM USDA Ag. Prices
4:30 PM Money Supply
4:30 PM Fed Balance Sheet
6:45 PM Fed’s Lacker: Economic Outlook

Notable earnings before Wednesday’s open: AUQ, CMC, FDO

Notable earnings after Wednesday’s close: MOS, PAYX, RHT

Wednesday’s economic calendar:

7:00 MBA Mortgage Applications
8:30 Durable Goods
10:30 EIA Petroleum Inventories
1:00 PM Results of $35B, 5-Year Note Auction

U.S. stock futures point higher in advance of releases on economic data that include March consumer confidence and Case-Shiller’s report on home prices. S&P +0.1%, Dow +0.2%.