In what is a phenomenally quiet week on the domestic and European corporate and economic front, the ESRI's medium-term review of the Irish economy, with projections for the economy from 2000 to 2005, will be closely analysed.
The report should give the clearest indication yet on whether current growth rates are sustainable in the near future and on how the economy is likely to settle down within the euro zone.
Monday
Results: Group Chez Gerard, Henry Boot (H1).
A.G.M.: DFDS (e.g.m.), Intercare Group (e.g.m.), Silvermines (e.g.m.), Southampton Leisure (also e.g.m.).
Meetings: EU trade ministers meet (Luxembourg); Sun Microsystems' global engineering conference marks opening of European software centre in Dublin; OECD e-commerce forum (Paris to Wed).
Indicators: EU GDP (Q2), British producer price index (Sep).
Others: Former British prime minister John Major publishes autobiography.
Tuesday
Results: Incepta (H1), London & St Lawrence, Marchpole Holdings (H1), Offshore Tool and Energy (H1), PaineWebber (Q3), Pernod Ricard (H1), Scotia Holdings (H1), Scottish Metropolitan, Seagate Technology (Q1), St Ives.
A.G.M.: Credit Lyonnais, Stavert Zigomala.
Meetings: EU environment ministers meet (Luxembourg); Bank of Japan policy board meets.
Indicators: EMU producer prices (Aug); Irish total external trade (May); US Chicago Federal Index (Aug); British retail prices (Sep) and machine tools (Sep); Japanese machinery orders (Aug); French consumer prices (Sep).
Others: IAPF publishes new quarterly pensions magazine; Eircell unveils new data services; Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed publishes Budget submission.
Wednesday
Results: Apple Computer, Goshawk Insurance (H1), JJB Sports (H1), Rugby Estates (H1), Town Centre Securities, Warnford Investments (H1).
Meetings: Irish Productivity Centre conference on "Modernising the Organisation of Work through Partnership (Great Southern Hotel, Dublin Airport); ESRI seminar on medium-term review of the Irish economy (2000-2005).
Indicators: Irish population and migration estimates (Apr) and quarterly national household survey (Q2); British Treasury releases summary of independent economic forecasts for September plus British unemployment (Sep), average earnings (Q2) and unit wages (Q2); US Atlanta Federal Index (Sep); German wholesale prices (Sep), consumer prices (Sep) and retail sales (Sep).
Others: Nobel Prize for Economics to be announced (Stockholm); European Commission adopts progress reports on candidates for accession to the European Union; European Commission to decide on regulatory clearance for merger between Sweden's Telia and Norway's Telenor.
Thursday
Results: DFS Furniture, Gleeson Group, McGraw-Hill (Q3), Roche (Q3), Unisys (Q3).
Meetings: ECB chief economist Otmar Issing addresses Irish Institute of European Affairs on "The Euro Experience With A New Currency"; 12th annual conference of the Irish Association of Corporate Treasurers (O'Reilly Hall, UCD); IAPF seminar on pension funds in the EU (University Industry Centre, UCD); MBA Association presentation on Strategic Management of Corporate Development (DCU Business School, Dublin).
Indicators: EMU earnings (Q2) and labour cost index (Q2); British Chambers of Commerce quarterly economic survey; US retail sales (Sep) and import/export prices (Sep).
Others: ESRI publishes medium-term review and economic forecasts (1999-2005); Third annual Jean Monnet lecture (Newman House, Dublin); Former Taoiseach Mr Charles Haughey arraigned on charges of obstructing McCracken tribunal.
Friday
Results: Alvis (H1), Knight Ridder (Q3), Value and Income (H1), World Telecom (H1).
A.G.M.: BAT (e.g.m.), Elf Acquitane (e.g.m.), Haynes Publishing.
Meetings: EU Summit (Tampere, Finland); Dublin Economic Workshop (Kenmare to Sun).
Indicators: US producer prices (Sep), industrial production (Sep), business inventories (Aug), capacity utilisation (Sep) and Michigan Sentiment Survey; French current account (Jul); Italian industrial production (Aug).
Others: TotalFina's share offer for Elf Aquitaine closes.
