TODAY

• American Express, Sterling Bancorp, and Verizon Communications are scheduled to report their fourth-quarter earnings.

TOMORROW

• JetBlue Airlines and New York Community Bancorp are scheduled to report their fourth-quarter earnings.

• The New York Public Library offers a workshop on using electronic indexes to find articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers, beginning at 3:15 p.m. at the Science, Industry, and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave. Free. Please go to nypl.org for more information.

• CAMBA Small Business Services presents a seminar on getting financing and grant money for small businesses between 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. at its offices at 884 Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn. Contact: smallbiz@camba.org

• Metropolitan NY Chapter of the Appraisal Institute and Counselors of Real Estate holds a seminar on the 2008 Real Estate Economic Forecast between 8 and 10 a.m. at Club 101 at 101 Park Ave. The cost is $75. Contact: metronyai@aol.com

WEDNESDAY

• Estée Lauder is scheduled to report its second-quarter earnings.

• The 92nd Street Y hosts four contributors to the crime fiction anthology “Wall Street Noir,” Charles Ardai, Jim Fusilli, Lawrence Light, and Peter Spiegelman, between 7:30 and 9 p.m. The cost is $25. Please visit 92y.org for tickets.

• Advertising Women of New York presents a breakfast panel discussing “What’s Hot for 2008” at the New York Hilton, 1335 Sixth Ave., between 7:45 and 9:30 a.m. The cost is $125. Contact: 212-221-7969.

THURSDAY

• The New York Times is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter earnings.

• The author of “Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race,” Rebecca Fannin, appears at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 555 Fifth Ave., beginning at 6:30 p.m. Free.

• The New York Public Library offers a seminar on how to publicize your small business beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Science, Industry and Business Library at 188 Madison Ave. Free. Please go to nypl.org for more information.

• The Japan Society hosts a lecture on the state of American-Japanese relations, featuring Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, between noon and 2 p.m. at its offices at 333 E. 47th St. The cost is $65 including lunch, $15 without. Contact: 212-715-1247

• New York Building Congress presents the “New York Building Congress Luncheon Forum” with Governer Spitzer between 11:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. in the Mandarin Ballroom of the Mandarin Oriental New York, 80 Columbus Circle. The cost is $175 at the door, $150 in advance. Contact: 212-481-9230

FRIDAY

• Retailers present their merchandise at the International Gift Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Center, through February 6. Cost varies. Please go to nyigf.com for more information and to register.

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