In the eurozone, February’s flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is expected to show some stabilisation although it will remain at very low levels. On the domestic front, the Irish index of employment will confirm the rate at which the building sector haemorrhaged in December.
Monday
President’s Day - Market Holiday
Results:TNT
Indicators:Irish agriculture figures (2008); UK Rightmove House Prices (Feb); Japanese Tertiary Industry Index (Dec) and GDP (Q4)
Others:US fixed-income markets closed to observe Presidents' Day (Washington); ECB President Jean -Claude Trichet to speak at the Joint Parliamentary Meeting on "A New Deal for European Economic Recovery?" organised by the European Parliament (Brussels)
Tuesday
Results:Agilent Technologies; Benetton; Daimler; Dominos Pizz (UK & Irl); InterContinental Hotels; Wal-Mart
Meetings:United Drug AGM (Conrad Hotel); Educating for Entrepreneurship conference (Dublin Castle Conference Centre); ISSA Ireland Meeting (Westbury Hotel, D2); Facilities Management Ireland exhibition and conference
Indicators:EU Foreign Trade Balance (Dec); US NY Fed Empire State Index (Feb), TICS Capital Inflows (Dec) and NAHB (Feb); UK CPI (Jan) and DCLG House prices (Dec); German ZEW Index (Feb)
Wednesday
Results:Analog Devices; Goodyear; Heineken; Hewlett-Packard; Societe Generalel; Whole Foods Market
Meetings:Energy & Climate Change working groups on the topic of The European Community for Renewable Energy (IIEA)
Indicators:Irish Index of Employment in Construction (Dec); UK CBI Industrial Orders (Feb) and BoE Monetary Policy Committee Minutes of 4/5th March Meeting; US Export Prices (Jan), Housing Starts (Jan), Capacity Utilisation (Jan), Industrial Production (Jan) and FOMC Publishes Minutes of 27/28 January Meeting
Others:Bank of Japan starts two-day monetary policy meeting (Tokyo); Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speech (Washington); Federal Reserve issues minutes from its meeting of January 27 -28th
Thursday
Results:AXA; BNP Paribas; Deutsche Postbank; Expedia; Ladbrokes; Travis Perkins
Meetings:ECB Governing Council meeting - no interest rate announcements scheduled (Frankfurt); Digital workshop with Sean Fee, chief executive of iFoods (Institute of International and European Affairs); OECD/IMF news briefing on competition and the economic crisis (Paris)
Indicators:Irish Wholesale Price Index (Jan) and Industrial Disputes (Q4); US Initial Jobless Claims (w/e 13th Feb), PPI (Jan), Leading Indicators (Jan) and Philly Fed Business Survey (Feb)
Others:Bank of England Deputy Governor John Gieve gives lecture at London School of Economics on "Lessons from the credit crisis"
Friday
Results:JCPenney; Prudential
Meetings:American Chamber of Commerce President's Lunch (Shelbourne Hotel)
Indicators:EU Flash PMI - Composite (Feb); Irish Employee Skills Training and Job Vacancies Survey (2006) and Vehicles Licensed for the First Time (Jan); US CPI (Jan) and Real Earnings (Jan); UK Retail Sales (Jan); French Final HICP (Jan) and Business Climate Index (Feb); Italian Industrial Orders (Dec); Japanese Bank of Japan Monthly Report
