Business This Week

THIS WEEK will be relatively quiet in terms of economic data, with the main indicator of note being the consumer price index for May, which is due out on Thursday.

Economists expect the figures to show that the rate of deflation picked up pace due to the impact of the levies introduced in the April Budget.

Monday

Results:Quiksilver.

Indicators:EU Sentix investor confidence (June); UK BRC retail sales monitor (May) and RICS house price balance (May); German factory orders (April); Japanese eco-watchers survey: current (May); OECD harmonised unemployment rates and composite leading indicators.

Tuesday

Results:Movado; Norkom.

Meetings: "Entrepreneurship – How to create a technology start- up" conference (UCC); UCD School of Business and HEC Paris joint seminar "All Change? 2009" – guest speakers include David McRedmond, chief executive of TV3.

Indicators:Irish earnings and labour costs (Q4), live register additional tables (May) and Ulster Bank Construction PMI (May); US wholesale inventories (April) and ABC/Washington Post consumer confidence (June 7th); UK-DCLG House price index (April); German industrial production (April); Japanese core machinery orders (April) and domestic corporate goods price index (May); Australian ANZ job advertisements (May) and National Australia Bank's business conditions (May).

Others:iQ Bootcamp (Radisson SAS Royal Hotel, Dublin); Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown chamber business workshop – "Thriving in Economic Turmoil"; OECD global forum on trade.

Wednesday

Results:Halfords; Spartech.

Meetings:Aminex agm (Westbury Hotel, Dublin 2); ISSA Ireland/ Microsoft security seminar (Academy building, Pearse Street, Dublin 2); CRM case study seminar with Irish Football Association (Guinness Storehouse).

Indicators:Irish overseas travel (April); US MBA mortgage applications (June 5th), EIA crude oil stocks change, Fed's beige book and monthly budget statement (May); UK goods trade balance), industrial production, manufacturing production and total trade balance (April); German consumer price index (May); Australian home loans.

Thursday

Results:Del Monte Foods.

Meetings:AGI Therapeutics agm; Kenmare agm (Westbury Hotel, Dublin 2); Directors' strategic briefing run by PwC –"Managing People Costs – Time for a Rethink?" (Institute of Directors); Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown chamber network event (Stillorgan Park Hotel); IIEA climate change working group meeting on "Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy".

Indicators:Irish consumer price index (May).

Others:Seedcorn competition workshop (Grand Canal Hotel, Dublin 4); Taste of Dublin Festival (Iveagh Gardens).

Friday

Meetings:Independent News Media agm (Citywest Hotel, Saggart); Enterprising Women Network's 10th Anniversary lunch – with guest of honour Miriam O'Callaghan (Harvey Nichols, Dundrum).

Indicators:Irish industrial production and turnover (April); US Reuters/ Michigan consumer sentiment index (June).