By William Spain, MarketWatch
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) Among the stocks that could see active trade in the Monday session are Alcoa, PriceSmart and WD-40.
Alcoa /quotes/zigman/246295/quotes/nls/aa AA +1.29% is slated to report second-quarter earnings after the close and is expected to earn 5 cents a share on revenue of $5.83 billion according to the average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet.
And analysts have pegged WD-40s /quotes/zigman/79861/quotes/nls/wdfc WDFC +1.00% fiscal third quarter profit at 61 cents a share with sales of $91.6 million.
PriceSmart /quotes/zigman/63839/quotes/nls/psmt PSMT -0.79% is also up and should earn 60 cents a share on sales of $510.7 million if Wall Streets best guess is on the mark. Same-store sales are seen rising 13.7%.
Late Friday, FTI Consulting /quotes/zigman/224004/quotes/nls/fcn FCN +2.50% said that it would lay off 3% of its employees and consolidate office space, leading to a $28 million pretax charge in the second quarter.
Also after the Friday close, Yahoo /quotes/zigman/59898/quotes/nls/yhoo YHOO -0.23% and Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609/quotes/nls/fb FB +0.46% announced that they have entered into pacts that will launch a new advertising partnership, extend and expand distribution arrangements, and settle all pending patent claims between the companies.
Electronics retailer Best Buy /quotes/zigman/219712/quotes/nls/bby BBY +3.86% late Friday said it was cutting 2,400 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan announced in the spring as it seeks to compete more strongly against online foes. Six hundred of the layoffs will come from the companys Geek Squad technicians.







