The euro zone’s ongoing sovereign debt crisis is likely to remain to the fore this week, and the results of the area’s bank stress tests, due to be published in the coming days, will also be closely watched.
On the domestic front, the key indicator this week is likely to be the manufacturing output figures for May.
Monday
Meeting: Bank of Ireland EGC (UCD)
Indicators: Irish Industrial production and turnover (May), construction PMI (June) and vehicles licensed for the first time (June); US RICS housing price balance (June); UK BRC retail sales monitor (June); French industrial output (May).
Other: Launch of OECD Economic survey of Austria.
Tuesday
Indicators: EcoFin meeting; US FOMC minutes and trade balance (May); UK consumer price index (June) and Trade Balance – non-EU (May); German consumer price index (June); French HICP (June).
Other: Energy efficiency summit (Bangkok).
Wednesday
Results: Borders; Marriott International.
Indicators: EMU industrial production (May); US Fed's Ben Bernanke testifies, monthly budget statement (June) and import price index (June); UK ILO unemployment rate (May) and claimant count rate (June); German wholesale prices (June).
Thursday
Results: Google; JPMorgan Chase; Sudzucker.
Meeting: Zamano agm (Conrad Hotel, D2); Midleton Chamber event "Costs – Get your Spend Working for You".
Indicators: EMU consumer price index (June) and ECB monthly report; Irish consumer price index (June), quarterly national household survey module on equality (quarter 4) and institutional sector accounts non financial (quarter 1); US producer price index (June), retail sales (June) and business inventories (May).
Other: Associated British Foods interim management statement; launch of Irish Internet Association's critical skills retention policy proposal.
Friday
Results: Citigroup.
Meeting: DCC agm (Four Seasons, D4); Ormonde Mining agm (Conrad Hotel).
Indicators: EU trade balance (May); Irish capital assets in industry (quarter 1), industrial stocks (quarter 1) and agricultural price indices; US consumer price index (June), NY Empire state manufacturing index (July) and industrial production (June).
Other: Official opening of new engineering building at National University of Ireland, Galway, by Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
