Stocks to Watch Apple Agilent Sysco Urban Outfitters Lowes

Stocks to Watch: Apple Agilent Sysco Urban Outfitters Lowes

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday’s session are Apple Inc., Dynegy Inc., Lowe’s Cos., Urban Outfitters, Agilent Technologies Inc., and Sysco Corp.

Retail and tech earnings take center stage, with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Wal-Mart, Target and Home Depot set to report. General Motors may launch year’s biggest IPO to return to public markets. MarketWatch’s Rex Crum reports.

A manager at Apple Inc.249.10-2.69, -1.07%) faces charges of accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks from Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories, according to reports. Paul Shin Devine, a global supply manager at the Cupertino, Calif., technology giant, was charged in a federal grand jury indictment with wire fraud, money laundering and other offenses, the media reports said.

Google Inc. -5.66, -1.15% purchased virtual currency software firm Jambool Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The Internet giant paid $55 million plus up to $20 million in contingency money, according to reports.

Dynegy Inc. +1.75, +62.95% agreed Friday to be purchased by Blackstone group  -0.38, -3.45% in a deal valued at $4.7 billion including assumption of debt. Blackstone in turn is selling four Dynegy natural gas-fired plants to NRG Energy  21.96 -0.45, -2.01% for $1.4 billion. Lowe’s, -0.15, -0.76% is expected to report second-quarter earnings of 59 cents a share, according to a consensus survey by FactSet Research.

Urban Outfitters-0.71, -2.25% is forecast to post earnings of 39 cents a share in the second quarter.

Agilent Technologies Inc.27.35, -0.18,-0.65% is projected to post third-quarter earnings of 48 cents a share.

Sysco, -0.23, -0.76% is likely to report earnings of 57 cents a share in the fourth quarter.