THE SPOTLIGHT event of the week ahead will relate to the funding of the country’s yawning budget deficit, with the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) aiming to raise up to €1 billion tomorrow through an auction of treasury bonds.
Other highlights of the business week will include the Golden Spider Awards on Thursday evening in the Burlington, and the National Women’s Enterprise Day on Friday.
MONDAY
Results: Asos; Halifax; Lowes
Meeting: Conference on IFSC's ranking in international index (Mansion House); Trinity College Dublin Innovation Award
Indicators: EU-16 HICP (Oct); US NY Fed - Empire State Index (Nov), Retail Sales (Oct) and Business Inventories (Sept); UK Rightmove House Prices (Nov); Italian Final CPI (Oct); Japanese Tertiary Industry Index (Sept)
Other: Kingspan interim management statement; trading update from Persimmon; launch of Restaurants Association of Ireland Budget 2010 submission
TUESDAY
Results: Big Yellow; Burberry; Easyjet; Home Depot; Persimmon; Target; TJX
Meeting: Barratt Developments agm; 'Content Is King' conference (Guinness Storehouse); evenTech 2009 (to Wed, RDS)
Indicators: EU-16 Foreign Trade Balance (Sept); US PPI (Oct), TICS Capital Flows (Sept), Industrial Production (Oct) and NAHB Housing Index (Nov); UK CPI (Oct)
Other: Trading update from Avis Europe
WEDNESDAY
Results: Air France-KLM; Mothercare; United Drug
Meeting: 'Reforming the law on personal debt' conference - opened by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern (Dublin Castle); NovaUCD 2009 Campus Company Development Programme; Technology in Business Conference 09 - Recovery Through Technology (Radisson Blu Hotel, Cork); Winning International Business with the Web half-day conference (Radisson Hotel, Golden Lane); Wolseley agm
Indicators: EU-16 Current Account (Sept); US CPI (Oct), Housing Starts (Oct) and Real Earnings (Oct); UK CBI Industrial Orders (Nov) and BoE Monetary Policy Committee - minutes of 4th/5th Nov meeting
Other: Trading update from Bovis Homes; UTV interim trading statement
THURSDAY
Results: Air Berlin; Foot Locker; Gap; Halfords; Halfords; SABMiller; Sears
Meeting: Eircom Golden Spider Awards (Burlington Hotel, D4)
Indicators: Irish Services Producer Price Index (Q2), Survey on Income and Living conditions in Ireland (2008) and Vehicles Licensed for the First Time (Oct); US Initial Jobless Claims (w/e 14th Nov), Leading Indicators (Oct) and Philly Fed Business Survey (Nov); OECD economic outlook
FRIDAY
Results: Fuller Smith Turner
Meeting: National Women's Enterprise Day (Mullingar Park Hotel, Westmeath); Published Accounts Awards - guest speaker Deirdre Somers, chief executive of the Irish Stock Exchange
Indicators: Irish Agricultural Price Indices (2009), Earnings and Labour Costs (Q2) and Overseas Travel (Sept); German PPI (Oct); Italian Industrial Orders (Sept); Bank of Japan BoJ Rate Announcement.
