THE FALL-OUT from last week’s revelations on the banks, the first National Asset Management Agency loan transfers and the precarious position of Quinn Insurance will no doubt continue throughout this holiday-shortened week.
Meanwhile, the Central Bank is due to outline its latest forecasts for the economic prospects of the country this week, while the ECB will make its latest interest rate announcement on Thursday.
No rate change is anticipated, and the Bank of England also expected to leave UK rates unchanged when its monetary policy committee meets this week.
TODAY
Markets closed in Dublin and London for bank holiday.
Indicators: US ISM non- manufacturing PMI (March) and pending home sales (February).
TOMORROW
Meeting:US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner launches the US-India economic and financial partnership (New Delhi).
Indicators:EU-16 Sentix investor sentiment (April); US FOMC publishes minutes of meeting of March 16th; Japanese leading indicators (February).
WEDNESDAY
Meeting:EirGrid briefing on the future of energy.
Indicators:EU-16 Markit services PMI (March), final GDP (quarter 4) and PPI (February); US consumer credit (February); UK nationwide consumer confidence (March), BCC quarterly manufacturing survey (quarter 1) and CIPS services PMI (March); German industrial orders (February); Bank of Japan rate announcement.
THURSDAY
Meeting: Co-operative Banks: Key driving force to the Economic Recovery event (Brussels);Opening of Glasnevin Museum by Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
Indicators:European Central Bank interest rate announcement and retail sales (February); US initial jobless claims (week ending April 3rd); UK industrial production (February) and Bank of
England interest rate announcement; German industrial production (February); Spanish industrial production (February).
Other: Leviathan: Political cabaret, Can the Unions be Part of Ireland's Economic Recovery?(Button Factory, Temple Bar).
FRIDAY
Results:Elan
Indicators:Irish live register additional tables (March), consumer price index (March) and industrial production and turnover (February); US wholesale inventories (Feb); UK PPI input (March); French industrial production (February).
Other:Publication of Central Bank's second quarterly bulletin for 2010.
