All those stories and more coming up on the kudlow report starting right now. Good evening, everyone, im michelle carusocabrera, larry will be back tomorrow night. Dozens of earnings reports on tap. The rest of this week may be tense for the markets. Josh lipton joins us now with the details. Good evening, josh. Weve got a lot coming up. Thats right, michelle. Stocks close with modest declines. The s p 500 breaking an eightday rally. That following mixed economic and earnings reports, the dow dropped 31 points. Among the blue chips, coke, a laggard, matched expectations of 63 cents a share but missed on the top line. The company talking about unusually poor weather in the quarter. Also, goldman sachs, reporting the Company Beats on the bottom and top, but a wellknown bank analyst did lower his rating on goldman from buy to outperform saying increased estimates arent enough to justify the upside needed for a buy rating. On the economic front, home builder confidence jumps in july to its