The focus this week will be on the corporate sector as the reporting season continues, with First Derivatives and C&C due to release interim results in the coming days. Meanwhile the key economic data this week will be Friday’s external trade figures for August.
MONDAY
Results: Citigroup; Delta Air Lines
Meeting: FBD egm (The Irish Farm Centre, D12); ECB Executive Board member Juergen Stark speaks at the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Portugal Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar expected to hold news conference about 2012 budget
Indicators: US Industrial Production (Sep) and NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (Oct)
Other: ILCU announces results of third 'What's Left' disposable income tracker index
TUESDAY
Results:Apple; Bellway; Coca Cola; Domino's Pizza; First Derivatives; Goldman Sachs; Intel; Johnson & Johnson
Meeting: NHF seminar 'Innovations in Tackling Obesity' (Guinness Storehouse); Launch of Carbon Disclosure Project Ireland Report 2011 (Convention Centre Dublin); Ulster Bank economic outlook breakfast (The Park Hotel, Waterford); International Energy Agency Ministerial Meeting (Paris)
Indicators:EMU ZEW Survey - Economic Sentiment; US Producer Price Index (Sep), Total Net TIC Flows (Oct) and NAHB Housing Market Index (Oct); UK Consumer Price Index (Sep) and Retail Price Index (Sep); German ZEW Survey - Economic Sentiment (Oct)
Other:New report will be launched by the Irish Heart Foundation 'Tobacco Taxation, Smuggling and Smoking' (Davenport Hotel, D2)
WEDNESDAY
Results:Abbott Laboratories; British Sky Broadcasting; C&C; eBay; Edwards Lifesciences
Meeting:CloudArena Trilogy (NCI); Enterprise Ireland Workshop On Restructuring (East Point Business Park) and Insurance Institute of Ireland Breakfast Seminar 'Ireland & The UK - Platforms for Commercial Growth' (Convention Centre Dublin); 'Powering Ireland' Renewable Energy Seminar (Matheson Ormsby Prentice, D2); Diageo agm (London)
Indicators: EMU Current Account; US Consumer Price Index (Sep), Housing Starts (Sep) and Fed's Beige Books
Other:Diageo interim management statement; Bank of England to publish minutes of Oct 5th-6th Monetary Policy Committee meeting
THURSDAY
Results:Boston Scientific; Eli Lilly; Microsoft; Pernod Ricard; Sandisk
Meeting:Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards; Mid-West Showcase 2011 (Dell Ireland, Raheen Business Park); 'Out On Your Own' conference for entrepreneurs (RDS); 'Selling Your Company — A Roadmap for Success ' breakfast briefing (William Fry, D2)
Indicators:Irish Wholesale Price Index (Sep), Institutional Sector Accounts Non-Financial and Financial (2010) and Agricultural Price Indices (Aug); US Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Survey (Oct), Existing Home Sales (Sep), Initial Jobless Claims and Continuing Jobless Claims; UK Nationwide Consumer Confidence (Sep) and Retail Sales (Sep); German Producer Price Index (Sep); Swiss Trade Balance (Sep)
Other:Dragon Oil interim management statement; Britvic trading update
FRIDAY
Results:McDonalds
Meeting:Annual conference of the Society of Chartered Surveyors (Chartered Accountants House, D2); Over 50s Show (RDS); South East Careers Expo (Tower Hotel, Waterford)
Indicators:Irish External Trade (Aug) and Overseas Travel (Jun- Aug); US Fed Minneapolis's Narayana Kocherlakota speech; UK Public Sector Net Borrowing (Sep); German IFO (Oct)
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