Wall St Week Ahead: Bank earnings, data to call shots for stocks

(Updates with time of Friday's release on housing starts)

By Ellis Mnyandu

NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - With Wall Street's rally stalled, next week could be crunch time as big banks' earnings, including Citigroup's (C.N: 株価, 企業情報, レポート), roll in and investors scrutinize reams of economic data for clues on the recovery.

Bank of America Corp (BAC.N: 株価, 企業情報, レポート), Intel Corp (INTC.O: 株価, 企業情報, レポート), and General Electric (GE.N: 株価, 企業情報, レポート) are among several Dow components due to post their quarterly scorecards in the coming week. Their outlooks may shed light on whether the much anticipated economic revival has legs.

The economic calendar has plenty of indicators for investors to chew on, including June retail sales, the Producer Price Index and the Consumer Price Index, industrial production, weekly jobless claims and housing starts.

Any negative surprise will add fuel to what is shaping up to be the market's first significant pullback since the Standard & Poor's 500 broke away from a 12-year closing low in early March.

"It looks to me like the market might be vulnerable to a correction," said Richard Sparks, senior equities analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research in Cincinnati.

"Earnings are probably the key factor next week. People are going to be looking to see if there's any mention of a turnaround in earnings."