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By Rick Munarriz – Updated Apr 6, 2017 at 1:26PM

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Smartphones and smarter investors will color in the week that lies ahead.

Monday
The brand new trading year begins. After a robust 2009, mutual fund managers will be happy to begin touting what should be positive results for the trailing 12 months for a change. Things should be quiet on the trading front, with only a couple of foreign companies and Ark Restaurants reporting their quarterly results.

Tuesday
Google
(Nasdaq: GOOG) has scheduled a media event. It's being pitched as an Android gathering, but everyone knows that this is the day when Big G breaks out its Nexus One smartphone.

There have been several Android-based phones released in recent months, but this is the first one that finds Google with greater control over the device. According to Gizmodo, T-Mobile will be the carrier, but Google is front and center on this one.

Wednesday
Three S&P 500 companies -- Bed Bath & Beyond (Nasdaq: BBBY), Monsanto (NYSE: MON), and Family Dollar (NYSE: FDO) -- step up with their quarterly reports. There is little that a home goods retailer, an agricultural titan, and a thrifty-minded discounter have in common, but all three releases should combine to provide a decent glimpse of the economy in general.

As it stands, analysts see all but Monsanto posting year-over-year improvement on the bottom line.

Thursday
It will be showtime at Apollo (Nasdaq: APOL), as the poster child for Web-based post-secondary education delivers its quarterly numbers. Wall Street expects a profit of $1.45 a share for its latest quarter, well ahead of the $1.12 a share it rang up a year ago.

Another report that bears watching is from indexing specialist MSCI (NYSE: MXB), which provides institutional investing tools. The pros also see a healthy bottom-line boost there.

Friday
The first trading week of 2010 should end quietly. One of the few stateside companies discussing their quarterly performance is Colorado-based Penford (Nasdaq: PENX). The maker of ingredient systems for food and industrial applications should post a small profit, reversing a loss during the same period a year ago.

Until next week, I remain,

Rick Munarriz

Google is a Motley Fool Rule Breakers pick. Bed Bath & Beyond is a Stock Advisor recommendation. Apollo Group and Monsanto are Inside Value recommendations. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days.

Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz recommends windshield wiper fluid when trying to look forward. He owns no shares in any of the companies in this story and is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early. The Fool has a disclosure policy.

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