Business this week

THE EVENT of the week is likely to come on Wednesday with the release of the CSO live register figures for April.

Monday

Results: Audi; Edwards Lifesciences; Verizon; Whirlpool.

Meetings: Housing experts to discuss future of housing policy at National Housing Conference 2009 Readjustment, Resilience, Resurgence (to 28th, Radisson Hotel, Sligo); Dermot Desmond interviewed by Claire Byrne (NCI, Mayor Street)

Indicators:British nationwide housing prices (Apr); German Gfk consumer confidence survey (May); Japanese large retailer's sales (Mar) and retail trade (Mar).

Tuesday

Results: Becton Dickinson; BP; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Icon; Coca-Cola Enterprises; Daimler; Deutsche Bank; E*TRADE Financial; Honda: Intrum Justitia; Jones Lang LaSalle; Pfizer; Sun Microsystems; Unisys

Meetings:Build Your Business Online with a Business Blog IIA seminar (IPA); Chambers Cork business breakfast with economist Jim Power (Clarion Hotel); National final of formula 1 in schools technology challenge 2009 (Griffith College, D8;

Galway Chamber of Commerce spring lunch – Prof Niamh Brennan guest speaker on: Is Irish Business Over-regulated? (Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa, Galway)

Indicators: Irish trade statistics (Dec); US consumer confidence (Apr), ABC/Washington Post consumer confidence (Apr 26th) and Richmond Fed manufacturing index (Apr); British CBI distributive trades survey (Apr) and Gfk consumer confidence (Apr); German consumer price index (Apr); Swiss UBS consumption indicator (Mar); New Zealand Trade Balance (Mar).

Others: ESRI quarterly economic commentary, spring 2009, by Alan Barrett, Ide Kearney and Jean Goggin to be published.

Wednesday

Results: Bayer; Burger King; CB Richard Ellis; Cirrus Logic; Goodyear; Insignia; Moody's; Regis; SAP; Saint-Gobain; Siemens: Skechers; Starbucks; Time Warner; Trinity Biotech; Wyeth meetings; AIB agm (Bank Centre, Ballsbridge, D4); FBD agm and egm; Grafton Group agm (IMI Conference Centre, Sandyford Road, D16); Energy Show – business-to-business event organised by SEI (to 30th, RDS, D4).

Indicators: EU M3 (Mar); Irish external trade (Feb), live register (Apr) and vehicles licensed for first time (Mar); US MBA mortgage applications (Apr 24th), gross domestic product annualised (Q1) and Fed interest rate decision; German retail sales (Mar); Japanese Nomura/JMMA manufacturing purchasing manager index (Apr).

Others: FBD interim management statement.

Thursday

Results: Apache; Canon; Colgate-Palmolive; Domino's; Expedia; For rester Research; Horizon Financial; Hugo Boss; Kellogg; Lufthansa; Motorola; Pernod Ricard; Procter Gamble: Smith Nephew; Unifi; Viacom; Villeroy Boch.

Meetings:Digital Media Engagemement conference with Dr Edward de Bono; Young Entrepreneur programme awards 2009.

Indicators:Irish recorded crime (Q1), census 2006 – profile of the working population of large towns and agricultural price indices (Feb); US core personal consumption expenditure – prices index (Mar); German retail sales (Mar); Australian Conference Board Australia leading index (Feb) and HIA new home sales (Mar).

Others: Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan will open a PIBA broker conference (Four Seasons Hotel, D4); RDS to host business breakfast seminar in association with Ireland China Association Selling into China (RDS); Irish finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup (Science Gallery, TCD).

Friday

Results:Allergan; Aon; Chevron; Washington Post.

Indicators:Irish live register additional tables (Apr), retail sales index (Feb) and tourism and travel (2008).