One of the key events this week will be tomorrow’s bond auction through which the Government plans to raise €1 billion. Economists will also be keeping a close eye on retail sales figures for March, due out on Thursday.
MONDAY
Results: Alliance Boots; American Apparel
Meetings: Public roundtable debate on The conflicting aims of the European Union –economic freedoms versus social fundamental rights (UCD School of Business); Janet Ecker, former finance minister of Ontario will address Fintel Global Financial Services Centres Conference at the Canadian embassy; ECB Governing Council member and Bank of Finland governor Erkki Liikanen hosts a seminar on 10 years of the euro currency
Indicators: EU trade balance (Mar); US NAHB housing market index (May); Japanese Tokyo Condominium sales (Apr) and consumer confidence (Apr)
Others: Enterprise Ireland trade mission to Russia
TUESDAY
Results: Air France-KLM; Analog Devices; Bank of Ireland; Burberry; DCC; Hewlett-Packard; Home Depot; Phillips-Van Heusen; TJX; Vodafone
Meetings: Leviathan: Economy vs Environment (The Button Factory, Temple Bar, Dublin); Co Wicklow Chambers briefing on local election strategies
Indicators: US building permits (Apr), housing starts (Apr) and ABC/Washington Post consumer confidence (May 17th); UK
Others: ECB executive board member Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell participates in a panel discussion on Ways out of the crisis: The new financial architecture and the role of Europe (Berlin); annual meeting of European Finance Convention (Cascais, Portugal)
WEDNESDAY
Results: Experian; Gymboree; Yell
Meetings: ASG Seminar: Software License Compliance, Are you Ready? (Regus Office, D2); IT’s All About The People IT event (Grand Hotel, Malahide); Ibec roadshow, Managing Your Workforce (Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon); IDC Dynamic Infrastructure conference 2009 (Royal Hospital, Kilmainham); American Chamber of Commerce spring lunch 2009 (Shelbourne Hotel)
Indicators: US EIA crude oil stocks change, MBA mortgage applications (May 15) and FOMC minutes; UK Bank of England minutes; German producer price index (Apr); Australian Westpac consumer confidence (May) and wage price index (Apr); Bank of Canada consumer price index Core (Apr), consumer price index (Apr) and leading indicators (Apr)
THURSDAY
Results: Barnes and Noble; Cable & Wireless; Daily Mail and General Trust; Foot Locker; Gap; Investec; Mittel; ReneSola; Trans World
Meetings: IIA annual conference Better Business Online in a Tough Economy: Money, Marketing, Monitoring & Mobile (Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry, Dublin); launch of new IBEC Forestry and Forest Products Association
Indicators: EU purchasing manager index manufacturing (May); Irish wholesale price index (Apr) and retail sales index (Mar); US continuing jobless claims (May 9th), initial jobless claims (May 16) and Philadelphia Fed manufacturing survey (May); UK
FRIDAY
Results: British Airways; Campbell Soup
Meetings: 11th Annual Telecoms Industry Charity Ball (Burlington Hotel, D4); CPA annual conference (Radisson SAS Hotel, Little Island, Cork)
Indicators: Irish vehicles licensed for the first time (Apr); UK GDP - Revised (Q1); Bank of Japan interest rate announcement
