This Week:The main economic releases from the Central Statistics Office this week include the index of employment in construction for November, due out today, and the consumer price index for December on Thursday.
Ulster Bank publishes the latest update of construction purchasing managers index today, which acts as a barometer for the overall performance of the construction economy.
Today
RESULTS:Genentech, M&T Bank Corporation, Macatawa Bank.
INDICATORS:Euro zone industrial output (Nov); Irish index of employment in construction, ESRI/IIB consumer sentiment index and Ulster Bank Construction PMI; UK producer prices (Dec); French current account (Nov).
OTHERS:Dublin Tourism launches Dublin Regional Tourism Plan 2008-2010 (Conrad Hotel).
Tomorrow
RESULTS:Beiersdorf, Century Bancorp, Citigroup, Forest Laboratories, Intel, State Street.
MEETINGS:Northern Rock egm.
INDICATORS:US producer prices (Dec), Empire State PMI (Jan), retail sales (Dec), weekly retail sales (Jan 12th); UK consumer prices (Nov); German GDP (Q4) and ZEW expectations (Dec); French CPI (Dec); Italian industrial output (Nov); Spanish CPI (Dec)
OTHERS:Shannon Development end-of-year statement (Radisson hotel, Limerick); Bank of England's second funds auction to help UK banks during the global liquidity pressures (London).
Wednesday
RESULTS:C&C, JP Morgan Chase & Co, Logitech, Northern Trust, Wells Fargo, West Coast Bancorp.
INDICATORS:Euro zone HICP (Dec); US CIP (Dec), TICS data (Nov), industrial production, mortgage market index (w/e Jan 11th) and capacity utilisation (Dec), NAHB housing survey (Jan) and Beige Book; UK average earnings (Nov), unit wage costs (Nov) and unemployment (Dec); German producer prices (Dec); Italian CPI (Dec).
OTHERS:ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet keynote speech in Frankfurt; International Energy Agency to publish monthly oil market report (Paris).
Thursday
RESULTS:Ameritrade, BB&T, CIT, FNB, Horizon Financial, Merrill Lynch, Novartis, Xilinx.
MEETINGS:Amarin Corp (USc) egm (London)
INDICATORS:Euro-zone external trade (Nov) and ECB monthly bulletin; Irish CPI (Dec); US housing starts (Dec), jobless claims (Jan 12th).
OTHERS:Launch of PwC/Amárach property survey (Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge); Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on the near-term outlook for the US economy before the House Budget Committee (Washington).
Friday
RESULTS:General Electric
INDICATORS:Irish industrial stocks (Q3) and Earnings in Distribution and Business Services (Sept); US leading indicators (Dec) and University of Michigan Consumer Confidence Index (Jan); UK retail sales (Dec); Italian external trade (Nov); Japanese consumer confidence (Dec)
OTHERS:Presentation of Seán Lemass gold medal for business leadership to Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco plc (TCD).
