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A quiet week for earnings, along with new reports on consumer credit, consumer sentiment, economic optimism, wholesale trade, the U.S. trade balance and federal budget balance, should give the stock markets a chance to settle down after last week's volatility.

The "new normal" coined by Pimco posits a long era of diminished earnings and stock prices as overleveraged consumers and companies cut back. But it's not playing out that way. It seems Corporate America is growing less and less dependent on America.

Citigroup on Monday morning reported third quarter net income of $2.2 billion, topping Wall Street estimates and marking its third consecutive quarterly operating profit. Citi shares were up as much as 2.3% in premarket trading.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Tuesday (last updated 8:18 a.m. ET). Coach Earnings Rise: Coach (COH) ended its fiscal year with a bang reporting fiscal fourth-quarter earnings rose almost 40% to 64 cents a share, beating analyst estimates of 56...

As the first quarter ended this week, earnings season is about to unofficially kick off Tuesday April 7, when Alcoa Inc. (AA) -- the first of the Dow Jones Industrial stocks -- reports earnings. This earnings season comes with no small amount of jitters as the recession has deepened throughout the...