This Week: Overview - Markets will be extremely nervous this week as the deadline looms for executives of top US corporations to certify the accuracy of their company's financial statements.
As the black hole in WorldCom grows ever larger, the markets will be wary of any late revelations before Wednesday's deadline.
Chief executives and financial chiefs at the companies with more than $1.2 billion in revenue last year have to swear under oath in writing that the numbers in their companies' recent financial reports are correct.
The requirement affects 947 companies, most of which file by Wednesday.
Separately, the US Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee meets on interest rates tomorrow. While no immediate change is expected , there is a growing feeling that the US central bank will change its bias to one favouring a fall rather than a rise in interest rates ahead.
On the home front, there will also be some attention paid to inflation figures out today for July. Ireland's rate is currently double the euro-zone average
Monday
Results: Ebookers (Q2), Ecsoft Group (H1), Fiskars (Q2), Management Consulting Group (H1), Old Mutual (H1), RWE (H1), Vopak (H1), Workspace Group (H1).
A.G.M.: Chaucer Holdings (e.g.m.), Jolly Hotels.
Indicators: Irish consumer price index (Jul); British producer prices (Jul); Italian consumer prices (Jul); Japanese retail sales (Jun); German wholesale prices (Jul).
Others: Bank of Japan publishes monthly economic report.
Tuesday
Results: CD Bramall (H1), Deere & Co (Q3), Degussa (Q2), Juventus Football Club, Kuoni (H1), Man (H1), Mobilcom (H1), Ncipher (H1), JC Penney (Q2), Sampo (Q2), SBS Technologies, Stinnes (Q2), Tekla (Q2), UBS (Q2), Wal-Mart (Q2), Waste Recycling Group (H1), Watson Wyatt, Wolters Kluwer (H1).
A.G.M.: Carpetright, Castings, Enterprise Capital, Goal, I-Net Vct, Touchstone.
Meetings: US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meets on interest rates; First Tuesday meeting: "Elevators at Guinness's Gravity Bar" - 20 Irish companies seeking funding of €38.65 million, give three-minute pitches (Gravity Bar, St James's Gate, Dublin).
Indicators: Irish public sector employment and earnings (Q1) and capital assets in industry (Q1); US retail sales (Jul); British retail prices (Jul); French consumer prices (Jul); German ZEW economic forecast (Aug).
Others: US President George W. Bush hosts a domestic economic forum in Texas.
Wednesday
Results: Allianz (H1), Autologic (H1), Balfour Beatty (H1), Bang & Olufsen, Barr Laboratories, Bradford & Bingley (H1), Credit Suisse Group (Q2), E.On (H1), Fletcher King, Headlam (H1), Hero (H1), Roche (H1), Sea Containers (Q2), Storebrand (Q2), Thales (H1), Thus (Q1), UPC (Q1), Vattenfall (Q2), Vivendi Universal (H1), VNU (H1), Wireless Group (H1), Xenova (Q2).
A.G.M.: Mountview Estates.
Indicators: US business inventories (Jun); British unemployment (Jul), average earnings (Jun) and unit wages (Jun); French industrial production (Jun), labour survey (Q2) and manufacturing production (Jun); Japanese industrial production (Jun).
Others: US Securities and Exchange Commission deadline for US corporations reporting on calendar year basis to certify their financial statements; Bank of England releases minutes on July/August monetary policy committee meeting; Bank of Japan publishes minutes of June and July policy board meetings.
Thursday
Results: Aspo (Q2), Dell (Q2), Estee Lauder, Frontline (Q2), Gap (Q2), Getronics (H1), Holmen (Q2), Liberty Media (H1), NWF, P&O Nedlloyd (Q2), PMJ (Q2), Raisio (Q2).
A.G.M.: Mondas.
Indicators: US capacity utilisation (Jul), industrial production (Jul), National Association of House Builders (Aug) and Philadelphia Federal Survey (Aug).
Others: US Federal Reserve releases minutes of June Open Market Committee meeting; Public holiday in France and Italy.
Friday
Results: Julius Baer (H1), Novartis (H1).
A.G.M.: Latham (James).
Indicators: Irish index of employment in construction (Jun); US consumer prices (Jul), housing starts (Jul), building permits (Jul), real earnings (Jul) and Michigan Sentiment Survey (Aug); Japanese leading and coincidental indicators (Jun - revised); Italian balance of payments (Jun).
Others: NTMA holds bond auction.
