ECONOMIC NEWS will take centre stage this week, with a number of key indicators due to be released over the coming days.
These include live register and consumer confidence figures, as well as private-sector credit data. Economists are expecting bad news on all fronts.
Meanwhile, HICP figures for the euro zone due out on Thursday are likely to put the spotlight on the European Central Bank's inflation concerns.
On the results front, Ryanair releases its first quarter figures today while AIB's half year results are due out on Wednesday.
Today
Results:Amgen, Crane, Mittel, Provident Financial, Ryanair, Reckitt Benckiser
Indicators:Irish vehicles licensed for the first time (June); UK hometrack house prices (July); German Gfk consumer confidence (Aug)
Tomorrow
Results:Akzo Nobel, Alcatel-Lucent, BP, Games Workshop, SAP, Viacom
Meetings:Vodafone agm, World Trade Organisation General Council meeting (to July 30th)
Indicators:Irish household travel survey (Q1); US Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index (July) and Case-Shiller House Prices (May); UK consumer credit (June), mortgage approvals (June) and CBI Monthly Distributive
Trades Survey (July); German CPI (July); French consumer confidence (July) and producer prices (June); Japanese unemployment rate (June) and household spending (June)
Wednesday
Results:AIB, Aviva, Cadbury, Garmin, Lloyds TSB, Michelin, Moody's, Starbucks, Travis Perkins, Walt Disney
Indicators:Irish live register - State figures (July), and national income and expenditure - web only (2007); US ADP Employment Report (July); UK Gfk Consumer Confidence (June); Italian Producer Prices (June); Japanese industrial output (June)
Other:Publication of drinks industry report on economic contribution of drinks industry; trading update from Next
Thursday
Results:Aon, AstraZeneca, British American Tobacco, British Sky Broadcasting, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Hitachi, K-Swiss, Trinity Mirror, Revlon, Unilever, William Hill
Meetings:Amarin agm; Carphone Warehouse agm
Indicators:EU unemployment (June), HICP (July) and business and consumer confidence indices (July); Irish overseas travel (May), public sector employment and earnings (Mar) and Central Bank monthly statistics, which include private sector credit figures (June); US jobless claims (July 26th), employment cost index (Q2), money supply (w/e July 21st), GDP (Q2) and Chicago Purchasing Managers' Survey (July); German unemployment rate (July); Italian CPI (July); Japanese construction orders (June), housing starts (June) and labour cash earnings (June)
Friday
Results:Alliance Leicester, British Airways, Chevron, JCDecaux, Nissan, Sun Microsystems
Indicators:EU purchasing managers' survey (July); Irish live register (July) and NCB purchasing managers' survey (July); US non-farm payroll (July), ISM (July), new construction (June) and auto sales (July); UK purchasing managers' survey (July); German purchasing managers' survey (July) and retail sales (June); Italian purchasing managers' survey (July); French purchasing managers' survey (July)
Other:BAE Systems Trading update.
