Attention turns back to the Federal Reserve this week to see if it follows the ECB cut with a move of its own. The betting is that it will, with the question remaining of whether it will opt for a quarter or a half point drop.
ECB president Mr Wim Duisenberg will hope that any cut will put a floor under the euro which fell sharply at the end of last week.
Monday
Results: Banca Intesa (Q1), Benetton (Q1), DCC, Ducati Motor Holdings (Q1), Enel (Q1).
A.G.M.: Centrica. Meetings: EU industry and energy ministers meet (Brussels to Tues); International law conference on "Innovations in Legal Management" (Jurys Hotel, Dublin).
Indicators: British producer prices (Apr); US business inventories (Mar) and industrial production (Apr).
Others: Eircom adjusts share price following sale of Eircell; FAS Excellence Through People awards (Burlington Hotel, Dublin).
Tuesday
Results: ACCBank, Arcadis (Q1), Baltimore Technologies (Q1), BOC Group (H1), Bulgari (Q1), Dicom Group (Q3), Digital Animation Group, Dimension Data (H1), Energis, FirstGroup, Head (Q1), Homestyle Group, Innogy, Interactive Inv Intl (H1), JC Penney (Q1), SCS Upholstery (H1), R Stahl (Q1), Theratase (H1), UPC (Q1), Wal-Mart (Q1), Zen Research (Q1).
A.G.M.: Anglo American, Beattie (James), BMW, BNP Paribas, Inchcape, Kuoni.
Meetings: US Federal Reserve meets (to Wed); German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce lunch (Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin).
Indicators: British retail prices (Mar/Apr); Italian industrial production (Mar) and GDP (Q1).
Others: North's Industrial Development Board publishes annual report.
Wednesday
Results: Avon Rubber (H1), Azlan Group, British Energy, Cable & Wireless, Campbell Soup (Q3), Datalex (Q1), De Vere (H1), Glenmorangie, Libertel-Vodafone, Linde (Q1), M.M.T. Computing (H1), Ncipher (Q1), Safeway, Societe Gen erale (Q1), Slimma (H1), Viridian.
A.G.M.: AIG, AMR, Bunzl, Churchill China, First Active, Hasbro, Nichols, Premier Oil, PSA, Royal & Sun Alliance, UCM Group.
Meetings: OECD annual ministerial meeting (Paris); Society of Investment Analysts in Ireland investment seminar (Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin); WTO disupte settlement body meets (Geneva); Enterprise Ireland forum on internationally traded services (Guinness Storehouse, Dublin); Seminar on the future of e-business and XML (Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin); Marketing Society meeting on "Irish Youth Decoded" (Guinness Hopstore, Dublin).
Indicators: EMU harmonised consumer prices (Apr) and labour costs (Q4); British unemployment (Apr); US consumer prices (Apr); French trade balance (Mar) and industrial production (Mar); Italian consumer prices (Apr).
Thursday
Results: 3I Group, Capital Radio (H1), Chamberlain & Hill, Dell (Q1), The Gap (Q1), KLM, Marconi, Swisscom (Q1).
A.G.M.: Derwent, Shell Transport & Tdg, TotalFina, Xerox, Zurich Financial.
Meetings: Leinster Society of Chartered Accountants lunch addressed by Ms Freda Hayes, chief executive of Blarney Group (Burlington Hotel, Dublin).
Indicators: British retail sales (Apr); French current account (Feb).
Others: LiveWire Young Business Start-Up awards (Croke Park conference centre, Dublin); Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year award 2001 (Findlater Wine Vaults, Dublin).
Friday
Results: E.ON (Q1), Scottish Radio Holdings (H1), Securitas (Q1), Shaftesbury (H1).
A.G.M.: Baltimore Technologies, Gallaher Group, Michelin, Pinault Printemps, Preussag.
Meetings: The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners annual conference (Radisson Hotel, Dublin).
Indicators: EMU industrial production (Mar); US international trade (Mar).
