This weekAlthough the week gets off to a slow start on this side of the Atlantic, with Ireland and the Britain enjoying a long weekend, some interesting economic indicators are on the horizon later on in the week.
On Thursday, the Central Statistics Office will reveal whether the cost of living in Ireland continues its steady march upwards, when it releases the latest inflation figures. The second volume of the 2006 census on age and marital status will be published on Thursday and will no doubt be one of the main talking points this week.
A number of interesting company results are also due out this week. Drink and snacks group C&C release their preliminary results on Wednesday, while United Drug and Anglo Irish Bank will announce interim results on Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
The ECB group governing council will meet in Dublin on Thursday to decide on interest rates.
In London tomorrow, Gavin O'Reilly, chief operating officer of Independent News & Media, will be discussing the latest global trends in newspaper publishing at a World Association of Newspapers (WAN) event.
Meanwhile on the other side of the Atlantic, data out this week should give some signal as to the state of the US economy. US mortgage data is out on Wednesday, and the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on rates also takes place that day.
Monday
British and Irish public holiday.
RESULTS:Blue Nile, Heelys, Mercer International, Puma (Q1), Sotheby's, Viasys Healthcare.
MEETINGS:EuroGroup finance ministers meeting (Brussels); Bank for International Settlements regular bi-monthly meeting (Basel).
INDICATORS:US consumer credit (March); German industrial order (March); Japanese minutes of monetary policy meeting.
Tuesday 8th
RESULTS:Adidas (Q1), Allianz (Q1), Andor Technologies (H1), Arcadis (Q1), Assicurazioni Generali (Q1), Bayer (Q1), Brightpoint, Cisco Systems, Clariant (Q1), Clearwire Corporation, Deutsche Bank (Q1), Expedia, iCAD, International Securities Trading Corporation (H1), KPN (Q1), Marsh & McLennan Companies, Mediaset (Q1), Playboy Enterprises, Randgold Resources (Q1), Revlon, Swiss Re (Q1), Telecom Italia (Q1), Walt Disney, Youbet.com.
MEETINGS:EU finance ministers meet their counterparts from Turkey, Croatia and Macedonia (Brussels); World Association of Newspapers presentation and discussion of the latest global trends in newspaper publishing, featuring Gavin O'Reilly (right) of Independent News & Media and WAN chief executive Timothy Balding (London).
INDICATORS:Irish Industrial Stocks (Q3 2006), Irish Capital Assets in Industry (Q3 2006); US monthly wholesale trade (March); UK retail consortium; German industrial output (March).
OTHERS:Trading update from Standard Life.
Wednesday
RESULTS:Aegon (Q1), AGF Assurances (Q1), Avalon Pharmaceuticals, BNP Pariabas, N Brown, Carlsberg (Q1), C&C Group, Commerzbank (Q1), Dimension Data (H1), Easyjet (H1), Fenner (H1), Fraport (Q1), Integra LifeSciences, InterContinental Hotels Group, JC Decaux (Q1), Loewe (Q1), Sage (H1), Sampo (Q1), Swisscom (Q1), Toyota Motor Corporation, United Drug (H1), Veolia Environnement (Q1), Virgin Media, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, JD Wetherspoon (Q3).
AGM:AIB, BAE Systems, CRH, Lloyds TSB, Oakhill (egm).
MEETINGS:Impact's Civil Service and Local Government Divisional Conference (West County Hotel, Ennis); Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee meets (to Thurs).
INDICATORS:US mortgage data and Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on rates; UK MPC meeting and Halifax house prices; French central government monthly statistics on expenditures and tax collections (March) and international reserves (April); German external trade.
OTHERS:Lloyd's launches report on terrorism and political risk "Under attack: Global business and the threat of political violence".
Thursday 10th
RESULTS:3i, Acambis (Q1), Amarin (Q1), Anglo Irish Bank (H1), Babcock International, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company , Deutsche Telekom (Q1), EADS (Q1), InterContinental Hotels (Q1), International Power (Q1), Lundin (Q1), National Australia Bank, Urban Outfitters, Viacom.
AGM:Trinity Mirror.
MEETINGS:ECB governing council meeting (Dublin); Sales Institute of Ireland breakfast seminar featuring Denis O'Brien (right), as keynote speaker on "Entrepreneurialism and the importance of Selling" (Croke Park); IT security seminar (Guinness Storehouse, Dublin); IEA/Competition Authority Seminar on non-horizontal mergers ( Institute of European Affairs, Dublin).
INDICATORS:Euro-zone interest rates (April); Irish Census 2006, Volume 2 - ages and marital status, and consumer price index (April); US international trade in goods and services (March), jobless claims (to March 5th), federal budget (April) and money supply (w/e April 30th); , industrial production (March) and external trade (March); French Industrial production index (March) and foreign trade (March); Italian industrial output (March); Japanese money supply (April)
OTHERS:UK Bank of England monetary policy committee - interest rate decision;Trading statement from Signet.
Friday
RESULTS:Alcatel-Lucent (Q1), Cerep, Fortis (Q1), Parmalat, Volvo, Warner Chilcott.
MEETINGS:OECD Forum 2007 - Innovation for Growth and Equality (Paris).
INDICATORS:Irish industrial production and turnover (March); US retail sales (April), business inventories (March) and producer prices (April); Spanish consumer prices.
OTHERS:International Energy Agency publishes its monthly oil market report.
