TOMORROW’S INDUSTRIAL production figures will be closely watched given the importance of the manufacturing sector to Ireland’s recovery prospects.
Manufacturing output figures so far this year have been disappointing and the latest numbers are not expected to show much improvement. Meanwhile, officials from the EU-IMF-ECB troika are due to return to Dublin this week to carry out the latest bailout review.
MONDAY
Meeting:Enterprise Ireland event Big Ideas Technology Showcase (Dublin Convention Centre); Arbitration Ireland conference (RDS); World Economic Forum summit on the Global Agenda 2011 (Abu Dhabi).
Indicators: EMU Sentix investor confidence (October); Bord Gáis Energy index (September); UK RICS housing price balance (September); German trade balance (August).
Other:2011 Nobel Prize for economic Sciences to be announced.
TUESDAY
Meeting:Green hospitality programme awards (Westin Hotel, D2); Longford small business fair.
Indicators: Irish Industrial production (August), vehicles licensed for first time (September) and Ulster Bank construction PMI (September); US FOMC minutes; UK manufacturing production (August) and NIESR GDP estimate (September); OECD harmonised unemployment rates.
Other: Troika officials visit Ireland; Opec's monthly oil market report.
WEDNESDAY
Meeting: Institute of Public Administration conference; Irish Banking Federation annual conference with EU commissioner for monetary and economic affairs Olli Rehn (Radisson Hotel, Golden Lane); Digicom technology event (to Thursday, Aviva Stadium); gradireland Graduate Careers Fair (RDS).
Indicators:EMU industrial production (August); US MBA mortgage applications (October 7th); UK claimant count change (September), ILO unemployment rate (September) and average earnings including bonus (August); German wholesale price index (September).
Other:Travis Perkins interim management statement; ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet addresses Association for Financial Markets in Europe.
THURSDAY
Results:Google; JPMorgan Chase; WH Smith.
Meeting:Budget perspectives conference (ESRI); Dublin Chamber annual dinner 2011 with guest speaker, British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh; EnviroCom 2011 awards dinner.
Indicators: Irish consumer price index (September), quarterly institutional sector accounts non-financial (quarter 2); US trade balance (August), initial jobless claims (October 7th), continuing jobless claims (October 1st); UK goods trade balance (August); German consumer price index (September).
Other: Ladbrokes interim management statement; European Central Bank publishes its monthly bulletin.
FRIDAY
Meeting: Tasc/FEPS 2011 conference From Debt to Recovery (Croke Park); G20 finance ministerial meeting (Paris); internet expo (RDS).
Indicators:EMU consumer price index (September), trade balance (August); Irish industrial stocks (quarter 2) and capital assets in industry (quarter 2); US Reuters/Michigan consumer sentiment index (October), retail sales (September) and export price index (September).
Other:Launch of OECD economic survey of Ireland.
