Analysts expect Apple to report earnings of $10 a share on revenue of $36.65 billion. Netflix is estimated to post a loss of 27 cents a share on revenue of $869 million. Amazon is expected to report earnings of 7 cents a share on revenue of $12.86 billion, while Texas Instruments is forecasted to post a profit of 29 cents on sales of $3.06 billion.

Energy

ExxonMobil (Thurs), Chevron (Fri), Royal Dutch Shell (Thurs) - The energy sector trails behind tech's dismal monthly performance, hurt by volatile oil prices. Also, natural gas prices hit a fresh 10-year low this past week.

Analysts expect ExxonMobil to post earnings of $2.07 on revenue of $127.1 billion. Chevron announced in its interim report that its upstream and downstream results are expected to show an improvement from last quarter.

Industrials

Caterpillar (Wed), Boeing (Wed) - Some strategists have worried that the sector's margins could show more pressure. The sector's earnings could also give an insight amid ongoing fears over a slowdown overseas. For the week, the sector logged a modest gain.

Citigroup expects the sector to show an earnings increase of nearly 10 percent.

Caterpillar is expected to post a profit of $2.13 on sales of $16.22 billion, while Boeing is estimated to report earnings of 94 cents on shares of $18.39 billion.

(All estimates above are from Thomson Reuters)

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