For your diary

TODAY
Results: HTC; Lacroix.
Indicators: Irish purchasing manager index services (Dec); Euro zone Sentix investor confidence (Jan); Euro zone Markit services PMI (Dec); UK Markit services PMI (Dec); German harmonised index of consumer prices (Dec).
Other: Fed chairman nomination vote.


TOMORROW
Indicators: Euro zone consumer price index (Dec); German unemployment rate (Dec).
Other: International Consumer Electronics Show (Las Vegas).

WEDNESDAY
Results: Monsanto.
Meetings: BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition 2014 (RDS, Dublin 4).
Indicators: Irish live register (Dec); Irish vehicles licensed for the first time (Dec); Irish retail sales index (Oct); Euro zone unemployment rate (Nov); Chinese industrial production (Dec); Japanese consumer confidence index (Dec).
Other: Federal Open Market Committee minutes.

THURSDAY
Results: Alcoa.
Meetings: Laya Healthcare pendulum summit (Convention Centre, Dublin); Business of Sports Science conference (RDS, Dublin 4).
Indicators: Irish monthly services index (Oct); Euro zone economic sentiment indicator (Dec); Chinese consumer price index (Dec).
Other: ECB monetary policy statement; ECB interest rate decision; Bank of England interest rate decision; SIG trading statement.

FRIDAY
Results: American Express.
Meetings: Business breakfast: adventures in paper with Tony Smurfit (Kemmy Business School, Limerick); BT Young Scientist business breakfast (RDS, Dublin 4).
Indicators: Irish quarterly institutional sector accounts non-financial (Q3), Irish industrial production and turnover (Oct); Euro zone gross domestic product (Q4); US unemployment rate (Dec), US nonfarm payrolls (Dec).