AFTER THE hype surrounding last week's budget, this week will seem relatively calm by comparison. However, anger over the announcement that people over-70 will no longer be automatically entitled to a medical card looks set to rumble on this week, with the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament planning to protest outside the Dáil on Wednesday.
TODAY
Results: American Express; Halliburton; Hasbro; Lockheed Martin; Mattel; Novartis; SanDisk
Meetings: Union Learning Skillnet Conference (Marino Institute of Education, D9)
Indicators: US Leading Indicators (Sept); UK M4 Money Supply (Sept) and Public Sector Net Borrowing (Sept); German producer price index (Sept); Japanese coincident index (Aug) and leading economic index (Aug)
Other: Minister for Children Barry Andrews to launch Childminders Support Pack for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Childcare Committee (Bewleys Hotel, Leopardstown, D18); Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey to officially launch Flexibus, Navan's new fleet of vehicles (Navan, Co Meath); Fed Governor Ben Bernanke gives press conference on how the Fed views the current US economy and the value of dollar.
TOMORROW
Results: Apple; Boston Scientific; Caterpillar; Debenhams; E*TRADE; Edwards Lifesciences; Euro Disney; Forest Laboratories; Icon; MT Bank; National Australia Bank; Pfizer; QLogic; Schering-Plough; St Ives; Western Union; Yahoo
Meetings: IBEC telecommunications and internet Federation Annual Conference Virtual Generation - A Digital Life (Dublin Castle); Chambers seminar - Pitfalls Opportunities for Company Directors (Hayfield Manor Hotel, Cork); Merging Technology, Regulation Business, the Way Forward CEIA seminar (Maryborough House Hotel, Cork); IBEC South East National Employment Rights Authority seminar (Tower Hotel, Waterford)
Indicators: EU construction output (Aug); UK CBI Industrial Trends Survey - Orders (Oct); Swiss trade balance (Sept); Japanese All Industry Activity Index (Aug); Bank of Canada interest rate decision.
WEDNESDAY
Results: Amazon.com; Amgen; ATT; ConocoPhillips; GlaxoSmithKline; Home Retail Group; Saint Gobain
Meetings: South Dublin Chamber breakfast briefing - Explode Your Sales and Profits (Tallaght Cross Hotel); Mason Hayes+Curran and Sanders Sidney/O'Shea to host mock Employment Appeals Tribunal to highlight issues surrounding selection for redundancy (Four Seasons Hotel, D4); Irish Senior Citizens Parliament protest over medical card entitlements (12.30, outside Dáil)
Indicators: Irish Household Travel Survey (Q2, 2008); US MBA Mortgage Applications (Oct 17) and EIA crude oil stocks change (Oct 17); Bank of England minutes.
THURSDAY
Results: Black Decker; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Colt Telecom; Chubb; Coca-Cola; Elan; Eli Lilly; Intrum Justitia; Microsoft
Meetings: ICG egm (Clarion Hotel, IFSC, Dublin 1); Dubai Business Briefing organised by the Arab-Irish Chamber in association with the Government of Dubai (Croke Park); Cork Chamber annual conference (Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork); Go-Ahead, Haynes Publishing and Thorntons agms.
Indicators: EU current account (Aug) and industrial new orders (Aug); Irish National Disability Survey (2006), Wholesale Price Index (Sept), Trade Statistics (June) and Vehicles Licensed for the First Time (Sept).
Other: Trading update from DSG International, Sports Direct International and William Hill.
FRIDAY
Results: Ingersoll-Rand
Meetings: OECD consumer education conference
Indicators: EU Purchasing Manager Index (Oct); Irish Crops and Livestock Survey (June), External Trade (Aug) and Production in Building and Construction Index (Q2); US existing home sales (Sept); UK gross domestic product (Q3)
Other: Trading update from National Express.
