Welcome to Seeking Alpha’s Catalyst Watch – a look at some of the most important events of the week ahead. For a full list of companies reporting earnings, check out Seeking Alpha’s earnings calendar.

Monday – 12 August

• Volatility Monitoring – Options The trading volume at Black Diamond Therapeutics is increased (BDTX) and Trump Media & Technology (DJT). The most overbought stocks according to their 14-day relative strength index include Investcorp India Acquisition (IVCA), G1 Therapeutics (GTXL) and Kellanova (K). The most oversold stocks according to their 14-day Relative Strength Index include Pinterest (PINS), Snap (GRAB) and ODP Corp. (ODP). Short interest in Spirit Airlines has increased (SAVE) and Cassava Sciences (SAVE).
• Result monitoring – Notable companies set to release their reports include Barrick Gold (GOLD), Monday.com (MNDY), and Rumble (RUM).
• FDA Monitoring – FDA decision dates for Citius Pharmaceutical’s (CTXR) Lymphir and CymaBay Therapeutics’ Seladelpar will be announced later this week.
• All day – OPEC will publish its monthly oil report.
• All day – Progyny (PGNY) will host the first Investor Day in the company’s history.
• All day – Verizon (VZ), C3.AI (AI), Coinbase Global (COIN) and Cirrus Logic (CRUS) are some of the companies participating in the two-day Oppenheimer Technology, Internet & Communications Conference.
• All day – MSCI Inc. (MSCI) will announce the results of the index review for the MSCI equity indices in August 2024. All changes will be made at the end of August 30.
• 2:00 p.m. The three-day Ai4 conference begins. Chegg (CHGG), Amazon (AMZN), Wells Fargo (WFC), Medtronic (MDT), and Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS) are some of the companies participating in the conference, which focuses on AI and machine learning innovations in business.

Tuesday – 13 August

• Result monitoring – Notable companies set to report include Home Depot (HD), Tencent Music (TME), and On Holding (ONON). Options trading implies double-digit price movement for Cipher Mining (CIFR) and Oklo (OKLO).
• All day – Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) will hold its annual Pixel hardware event at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The company is expected to showcase the Pixel 9 and a Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
• All day – Illumina (ILMN) will present a strategy update. The event will include presentations from members of Illumina’s leadership team and will conclude with a question-and-answer session.
• All day – Super Micro Computer (SMCI) begins its highly anticipated fourth annual Open Storage Summit. The three-week summit will include a roundtable keynote session followed by five focus sessions with influential guests from companies such as Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD), NVIDIA (NVDA), Micron (MU), Samsung (OTCPK:SSNLF), and Japanese chipmaker Kioxia.
• All day – The IEA will publish its monthly oil report.
• All day – ARS Pharmaceuticals (SPRY), Astria Therapeutics (ATXS) and Compass Therapeutics (CMPX) are some of the companies participating in the two-day Wedbush PacGrow Healthcare Conference.
• All day – Electronic Arts (EA) released Madden NFL 25The highly anticipated game will be available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S and PC.
• 8:30 a.m. The producer price index report for July is published.
• 10:00 a.m. The Cass Freight Index is published.
• 16:30 Flutter Entertainment (FLUT) is holding its earnings conference call. Management will likely be asked if FanDuel plans to match DraftKings (DKNG) with a premium on high tax rates.

Wednesday – 14 August

• Result monitoring – Notable companies that will publish their reports include UBS Group (UBS), Cardinal Health (CAH), Brinker International (EAT) and Cisco (CSCO).
• All day – The 13F filing deadline for institutional investment managers to disclose their positions as of June 30 has passed. Hedge funds’ and portfolio managers’ Bitcoin ETF holdings will be of great interest. Investors may also be watching to see if hedge funds have made any significant moves with the Magnificent Seven group of Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Alphabet (GOOGL), Meta Platforms (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), and Tesla (TSLA).
• 8:30 a.m. The consumer price index report for July is released.

Thursday – 15 August

• Result monitoring – Notable companies set to release their report include Walmart (WMT), Alibaba (BABA), Applied Materials (AMAT), Deere (DE), JD.com (JD), and Tapestry (TPR). Options trading suggests a double-digit price swing for Despegar.com (DESP) following the report’s release.
• All day – Notable investor events include IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX) Investor Day.
• All day – The Justice Department’s time agreement for the deal between Hawaiian Holdings (HA) and Alaska Air Group (ALK) is expiring.
• All day – US Steel (X) will initiate arbitration proceedings with the United Steelworkers union.
• 8:30 a.m. The retail sales report for July is released.
• 9:10 am St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President Alberto Musalem will speak about the U.S. economy and monetary policy before the Greater Louisville Inc. Regional Economic Development Update.

Friday – 16 August

• All day – Genius Group (GNS) will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis following the company’s 1:10 share split.
• All day – The go-shop period ends with Darden Restaurants’ (DRI) offer for Chuy’s Holdings (CHUY). Chuy’s shares were trading 1.1% below the offer price at the time of publication.
• 10:00 a.m. The University of Michigan’s first consumer sentiment report for August is released.
• 13:25 Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee will participate in a fireside chat prior to the Angeles Investors’ Q3 Summit and Awards event.

Seeking Alpha writer Josh Fineman contributed to this story.