This Week

This is a key week for the economy. If the general consensus is correct, then Wednesday's GDP figures for quarter one will signal the end of the two-year recession.

This week also brings live register data for June, and Exchequer returns for the first half of the year.

MONDAY, June 28th

Results:

Barnes & Noble

Meeting:

Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation event (UCD); Intertrade Ireland 2010 Innovation conference Building Collaborative Networks for Innovation (to 29th, UCD); IIEA to host event with Mr. Soumitra Dutta on ICT and the competitiveness of nations; McAvoy & Associates to host seminar on revenue audit and investigations (Davenport Hotel)

Indicators:

EMU M3 Money Supply (May); US Personal Income (May) and Core Personal Consumption Expenditure - Prices Index (May); German Consumer Price Index (Jun)

Other:

Taylor Wimpey trading statement; Lufthansa investor day.

TUESDAY, June 29th

Indicators:

EMU Consumer Confidence (Jun) and Industrial Confidence (Jun); Irish Vital Statistics (Q4), Milk Statistics (May) and Agricultural Price Indices (Apr); US S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (Apr), Consumer Confidence (Jun), ABC/Washington Post Consumer Confidence (Jun) and Gfk Consumer Confidence (Jun); UK M4 Money Supply (May)

WEDNESDAY, June 30th

Results:

HMV; PartyGaming; Pfizer; Smith & Wesson; Worldspreads

Meeting:

Blackrock International Land agm (D4 Berkeley Hotel); IFG Group agm and egm (Radisson Hotel, D4); An Post Driving Success Roadshow (Galway); OECD roundtable event Corporate Responsibility: Updating the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Indicators:

Irish Quarterly National Accounts (Q1), National Income and Expenditure Annual Results (2009), Balance of International Payments (Q1), External Debt (Mar 31) and Live Register (Jun); US ADP Employment Change (Jun) and ADP Employment Change (Jun); UK GDP (Q1); German Unemployment Rate (Jun)

THURSDAY, July 1st

Meeting:

Donegal Creameries agm (Mount Errigal Hotel, Letterkenny)

Indicators:

EMU Unemployment Change (Jun); Irish Manufacturing PMI (Jun), Production in Building and Construction Index (Q1) and New Car Sales (Jun); US Initial Jobless Claims and ISM Manufacturing (Jun); UK Manufacturing (Jun); German PMI Manufacturing (Jun)

FRIDAY, July 2nd

Indicators:

EMU Producer Price Index (May) and Unemployment Rate (May); Irish Live Register Additional Tables (Jun) and Exchequer Returns (Jan-Jun); US Non-farm Payrolls (Jun), Unemployment Rate (Jun) and Factory Orders (May); UK Construction (Jun)