What's happening in the business world this week
In terms of economic indicators, the main focus this week is likely to be on the latest live register figures due to be published on Wednesday. The figures are expected to show that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 13.3 per cent in March.
TODAY
Results: Aminex; Borders
Meeting: Kenmare egm (Westbury Hotel, Grafton St); European Insurance Forum 2010 (RDS); ICTU/CIF conference
Putting Pensions to Work
(Croke Park Conference Centre); National Adult Literacy Agency and EBS Building Society launch new online financial education resource
www.makingcents.ie
(Newman House, St Stephens Green); Association of University Directors of Estates annual conference (Queen’s University); ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny participates in panel discussion at
Euro in Central Europe: experience and perspectives
conference
Indicators: EMU Economic Confidence (Mar); USPersonal Income (Feb), Personal Consumption Expenditure Deflator (Feb) and Treasury's Geithner Speech; UK M4 Money Supply (Feb) and Mortgage Approvals (Feb); German Consumer Price Index (Mar); Japanese Industrial Production (Feb)
Other: Launch of OECD/EC
Investment Reform Index 2010
(Brussels)
TOMORROW
Results: Aer Lingus; Bank of Ireland; IFG: McInerney Holdings; Unico
Meeting: Irish Centre of Business Excellence Lean Symposium 2010 (Clonmel Park Hotel);
Ocean Energy in Ireland: Opportunities and Challenges
event with James Ives, CEO of OpenHyrdo; Ordnance Survey Ireland to launch business-to-business online mapping service (Farmleigh House); Biovitrum AB agm
Indicators: Irish Planning Permissions (Q4) and Agricultural Price Indices (Jan); OECD Monthly Consumer Price Indices; USABC/Washington Post Consumer Confidence (Mar 28), S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices (Jan) and Consumer Confidence (Mar); UK Current Account (Q4), GDP(Q4) and Gfk Consumer Confidence (Mar); German Import Price Index (Feb); Japanese PMI Manufacturing Index (Mar)
Other: Bank of Portugal publishes spring economic bulletin with economic forecasts for 2010; trading update from Domino's Pizza UK & IRL
WEDNESDAY
Meeting: National Digital Media & Marketing Summit (RDS)
Indicators: EMU Consumer Price Index (Mar); Irish Live Register (Mar), Wholesale Price Index (Feb), External Debt (Dec 31, 2009) and Private Sector Credit (Feb); US Consumer Price Index (Mar), Factory Orders (Feb) and ADP Employment Change (Mar); German Unemployment Change (Mar)
Other: Central Bank of Iceland publishes minutes of the March 17 Monetary Policy meeting
THURSDAY
Meeting: R&D finance experts Leyton host free R&D breakfast briefing (Alexander Hotel, D2); Official Opening of Interxion’s new Dublin Data Centre
Indicators: EMU Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing (Mar); Irish Manufacturing PMI (Mar) and Overseas Travel (Jan); USInitial Jobless Claims (Mar 27) and ISM Manufacturing (Mar); UK Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing (Mar)
FRIDAY
Markets closed in Dublin, London and New York for Good Friday
Indicators: US Average Hourly Earnings (Mar), Non-farm Payrolls (Mar) and Unemployment Rate (Mar)