World Week Ahead: US earnings, IMF, ECB

World Week Ahead: US earnings, IMF, ECB
Paul McBeth
By Margreet Dietz July 18 (BusinessDesk) - A wave of US corporate earnings, the International Monetary Fund’s latest world economic outlook, and a European Central Bank policy meeting will draw the focus this week as Wall Street hovers near record highs.    Among the US companies set to release their latest quarterly earnings in the coming days are Bank of America, IBM, Yahoo!, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Intel, Netflix and Microsoft, and their results might offer a further boost to US market sentiment. “Second-quarter earnings h...