AT&T, Oncor, Mary Kay, 'bathroom bill:' Monday's Business Briefing

Your lunchtime look at D-FW business [Your lunchtime look at D-FW business] July 24,  2017 This July 16, 2013, file photo, shows a Wall Street street sign outside the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)  The Big Story Week for the strong: Key D-FW firms to push positives as earnings are revealed Five of the 10 largest companies in Dallas-Fort Worth will report their quarterly results this week in what is shaping up to be Wall Street's biggest week for stocks. For investors, it's halftime — a chance to see how blue-chippers and upstarts fared in the first half of the year while getting a glimpse at what the rest of the year might bring. [In Dallas-Fort Worth](, industry leaders Exxon Mobil, AT&T, Texas Instruments and American Airlines all report results this week. The nation's largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton, also will shed light on the outlook for the housing market. Three of the market-driving "FANG" stocks also report this week. -[Paul O'Donnell]( Plus: [Find more on D-FW's stock market news]([Â]( The Latest - Retail: [J.C. Penney]( has started accepting Apple Pay nationwide. - Real estate: Dallas investor who bought Penney HQ is [taking a run at Parkland campus](. - Trade: [The U.S. message to China](: Hands off our companies. (Wall Street-Journal) - Food industry: Three varieties of [Bush's baked beans]( are included in voluntary recall. - M&A: [Dallas' Jacobs Engineering]( looks to buy Colorado firm in reported $1.5 billion deal. - Energy: Thousands near Greenville and in West Texas are about get [much cheaper electric bills](. Advertisement Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Miles Austin, Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and the Cowboys youth football team announce the Cowboys' sixth round draft pick during day three of the Dallas Cowboys' 2017 NFL Draft Party on Saturday, April 29, 2017 at The Star in Frisco, Texas. The Cowboys chose cornerback Marquez White. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News) Business and politics Political ad pulls Cowboys, NFL draft into middle of Texas 'bathroom bill' debate The Cowboys' efforts to land the NFL draft and how it could be derailed by the legislative push for a "bathroom bill" is part of a $1 million ad buy that will begin to play on radio stations Tuesday. [The Texas Association of Business is behind the ads.]( The Cowboys aren’t associated with the campaign, but they are featured. The one-minute ad ends by asking fans to contact their legislators to tell them to reject the bill and bring the NFL draft to Texas. The spot, which will run on 26 stations in the Dallas area, is designed to expand the debate and spotlight potential consequences. -[David Moore]( Plus: [More D-FW sports business]( Elsewhere in Texas - Construction: [Another high-rise]( set for Austin’s Rainey Street district. (Austin American-Statesman) - Tourism: [Cinnamon Shore](, a top Texas Gulf Coast vacation spot, will receive a $1.3 billion expansion. (Houston Chronicle) - Technology: [SEC investigation]( of FourWinds Logistics revealed in Uresti case. (San Antonio Express-News) - Energy: [Billionaire Wilks brothers]( buy up shares of Canadian fracking firm. (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) - Real estate: [Oilman Russell Gordy]( has a $96 million collection—of ranches. (Wall Street Journal) An undated handout photo of David Cryer, []Michele McConnell and George Lee Andrews in "Phantom of the Opera." Who Is... Michele McConnell, actress, Mary Kay beauty consultant McConnell is the longest-running Carlotta Giudicelli in Phantom of the Opera’s Broadway history. She's also a Mary Kay sales director who this year brought $70,000 in retail sales. On Saturday mornings, she rents a Manhattan studio for meetings with her team of consultants, before her matinee performance. [McConnell credits her job as a Mary Kay beauty consultant for landing her a role on Broadway.]( “The biggest surprise for me was this amazing culture of success-driven women, of possibility thinkers and this whole energy that started to surround me of ‘No dream is too big. Why not you?’ And that was powerful to me,” McConnell said Thursday at the skincare and color cosmetics brand’s annual convention in Dallas. She and two of her team members, as well as thousands of other women, traveled to Dallas for the first of four, four-day seminars Mary Kay hosts at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. -[Tracy Cook]( Plus: [Find more on D-FW retail]( ICYMI - Sports business: [Jerry Jones has been a pioneer]( in marketing Cowboys, NFL to the Latino fan base in US and beyond. - Energy: [NextEra is suing Texas regulators]( who rejected its offer to buy Dallas' Oncor. - Jobs: [Lockheed says](it offered 860 positions at job fair with another hiring event coming. - Restaurants: [Sullivan's Steakhouse]( to make a return to Dallas in 2019. - Politics: [Dallas investor Ray Washburne]( would shed local posts to join Trump in D.C. Follow DFW stocks: [See how top North Texas stocks performed](, as well as the oil and gas markets and major stock exchanges. DFW Top 100 Places to Work 2016: The Dallas Morning News and Workplace Dynamics partner each year to feature the [Top 100 workplaces](, based on ratings by the people who work at them. The 2017 ranking is in progress. Advertisement 👋  That's all for today! For up-to-the-minute business news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com/Business](. 💖 Share the love: If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. 📧 Do you have feedback on this newsletter? Send your thoughts, questions, praise and corrections to our Business Editor Paul O'Donnell at [podonnell@dallasnews.com](mailto:podonnell@dallasnews.com?subject=Newsletter%20Feedback). 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