REPORTING season is well under way and, after disappointing results so far from retailers such as Tesco, investors will be hoping for more encouraging news.
Markets will also be watching the run of US data due out in the days ahead for any further evidence that the outlook
MONDAY
Martin Luther King day in the US – markets holiday.
Results: Charles Schwab.
Meeting:Enterprise Ireland will hold START workshops (Landmark Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon).
Indicators:Irish vehicles licensed for first time (December); UK Rightmove house prices (January); German wholesale prices (December).
Other:Bovis Homes trading update
TUESDAY
Results: Citigroup; Forest Laboratories; MT Bank
Meeting: 2012 Checkout conference (Four Seasons Hotel, D4); Dublin Chamber green economy forum. Speakers include Siemens Ireland chief executive Paul Lynham (Ulster Bank, George's Quay, D2); Greek communist-affiliated group PAME holds an anti-austerity strike (Athens).
Indicators:EU-17 HICP final (December); US Empire State/NY Fed index (January); UK CPI (December) and DCLG house prices (November); German ZEW Index (January).
Other:CC interim management statement; EU's executive will rule on legality of Hungary's disputed central bank law and other legislation; troika officials expected to visit Greece.
WEDNESDAY
Results:Bank Of New York Mellon; eBay; Goldman Sachs; Sanmina- SCI; State Street; Xilinx.
Meeting:Dublin Chamber briefing on hiring and holding people with CPL's Peter Cosgrove (Conrad Hotel, D2); presentation on Jacob's brand revitalisation; SFA seminar on public procurement (AIB Bank Centre, D4)
Indicators: Irish external trade balance (October); US PPI (December), TICS capital inflows (November), industrial production (December) and NAHB house builders' sentiment (January); UK claimant count (December) and average weekly earnings (November).
Other:Tullow Oil trading statement; IEA's monthly oil market report.
THURSDAY
Results: Google; Intel; Microsoft; Morgan Stanley.
Meeting:Limerick Chamber's business breakfast on smartphone evolution; Sherry FitzGerald breakfast briefing with chief economist Marian Finnegan (Fitzwilliam Hotel).
Indicators:EU-17 current account (November) and ECB monthly bulletin published; Irish consumer price index and consumer price index detailed sub-indices (December) and business in Ireland (2009); US CPI, real earnings and housing starts (December), initial jobless claims (w/e January 14th) and Philly Fed business survey (January).
Other: Associated British Foods interim management statement.
FRIDAY
Meeting: Thyssenkrupp agm (Bochum, Germany).
Indicators:US existing home sales (December); UK retail sales (December); German PPI (December); Italian industrial orders (November).
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