For your diary

A round-up of business events happening this week

TODAY

Results: Apple; First Bancorp; First Data; Halliburton; Xerox.

Meetings: Preparing for Industry 4.0 (Crowne Plaza Hotel, Blanchardstown).

Indicators: German Ifo business climate (Apr); German Ifo current conditions (Apr); US new homes sales (Mar).

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TOMORROW

Results: AT&T; Bayer; BP; eBay; Eli Lilly; Fiat Chrysler; Ingersoll-Rand; Marketo; Procter and Gamble; Thomson Reuters; Twitter; Whirlpool; Whitbread.

Indicators: US durable goods orders (Mar); US Richmond Fed manufacturing index (Apr).

WEDNESDAY

Results: Banco Santander; Boeing; Boston Scientific; Comcast; Facebook; Garmin; GlaxoSmithKline; Goodyear Tire; Jones Lang LaSalle; Nasdaq; Shutterfly; State Street; Xilinx.

Meetings: Procurex Ireland (RDS, Dublin 4); Ticketing Technology conference (Crowne Plaza, Dublin Airport); Future of Banking and Financial Services summit (Gibson Hotel, Dublin 1).

Indicators: German Gfk consumer confidence (May); Euro zone loan growth (Mar); US MBA mortgage applications (Apr 22nd).

Other: US Fed interest rate decision.

THURSDAY

Results: AbbVie; Airbus; Amgen; Caixabank; Colgate-Palmolive; ConocoPhillips; Deutsche Bank; Domino's Pizza; Flextronics International; Geberit; Gigamon; Invesco; LinkedIn; LogMeIn; MasterCard; Samsung Electronics; United Parcel Service; Wincor Nixdorf.

Meetings: ARVR Innovate conference (Croke Park, Dublin 3); National Industry 4.0 Summit (Mullingar Park Hotel, Co Westmeath); France Ireland Chamber of Commerce business lunch (InterContinental Hotel, Dublin).

Indicators: Japanese inflation rate (Mar); Japanese retail sales (Mar); German unemployment rate (Apr); Euro zone economic sentiment (Apr); Euro zone consumer confidence (Apr); Euro zone industrial sentiment (Apr); German inflation rate (Apr); US initial jobless claims (Apr 23rd); US Kansas Fed manufacturing index (Apr).

Other: Bank of Japan interest rate decision.

FRIDAY

Results: Aon; AstraZeneca; Bankia; Chevron; Moody's; Phillips 66; Porsche; Seagate Technology; Sanofi; Shire; Swiss Re; Telefonica; Tyco International.

Meetings: RTE Mojocon (Aviva Stadium; Dublin 4); Google breakfast briefing (The Foundry, Google, Dublin 4); Launch of RepTrak 2016 study (Intercontinental Hotel, Dublin 4).

Indicators: UK Gfk consumer confidence (Apr); UK Nationwide housing prices (Apr); UK mortgage lending (Mar); UK Bank of England consumer credit (Mar); Euro zone unemployment rate (Mar); German retail sales (Mar).