Global stocks listed on local stock exchange.

This week Prague Stock Exchange welcomed two companies from abroad. First is from Austria, Vienna Insurance Group which is traded in main segment SPAD. Next emission is on second (electronic) market RM-SYSTEM. This time is coming from Finland, it is Nokia (NOK). After Deutsche Bank AG (DB), Nokia is second foreign stock listed on electronic exchange. Share prices are converted to Czech Koruna CZK.
The intention for listing foreign stocks on electronic market and lowering trading commissions helped to increase trading volume on RM-SYSTEM and reached record turnover in 2007. Secondary market has enough liquidity now and it is right place to be for small and mid size investors.

Tech Business Week. Nokia and Motorola.

Tuesday
Economic: NA
Earnings: BofA (BAC), CSX (CSX), DuPont (DD), J & J (JNJ), Suncor (SU), Waters (WAT), Apple (AAPL), Cree (CREE), HOKU (HOKU), Texas Instruments (TXN)

Wednesday
Economic: NA
Earnings: Air Products (APD), Alleghany (ATI), Coach (COH), Conoco (COP), Motorola (MOT), Pfizer F5 (FFIV), Gilead (GILD), Hexcel (HXL), QLogic (QLGC), Qualcomm (QCOM), Stryker (SYK), Western Digi (WDC)

Thursday
Economic: Weekly Claims (325K) Weekly Crude, Existing Homes (4.95M)
Earnings: AT&T (T), Avnet (AVT), Amerisource (ABC), Cypress (CY), Ford (F), Danaher (DHR), Imclone (IMCL), Lennar (LEN), Nokia (NOK), Potash (POT), SunPower (SPWR), Amgen (AMGN), Broadcom (BRCM), KLA-Tencor (KLAC), Juniper (JNPR), MEMC (WFR), Microsoft (MSFT), Tempur-Pedic (TPX), Technitrol (TNL), Varian Semi (VSEA)

Friday
Economic: NA
Earnings: Caterpillar (CAT), Fortune Brands (FO), Harley (HOG), Weatherford (WFT)