The business world gets back to work this week. The main corporate newsflow will come tomorrow with cement giant CRH due to issue a trading update.
MONDAY
Results: The Mosaic Company
Indicators: EMU Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing; US construction spending and ISM manufacturing; UK Halifax house prices, M4 money supply (Nov), mortgage approvals, net lending to individuals and purchasing manager index manufacturing; German purchasing manager index (Dec); Swiss purchasing managers index
TUESDAY
Results: Monsanto; RPM International
Meeting: Minister for Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD to launch new book Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship -The Key to Social and Economic Transformation (Royal Irish Academy, D2)
Indicators: Irish Exchequer returns data (Dec); EMU consumer price index; US factory orders and pending home sales; UK PMI construction; Canadian industrial product price and raw material price index; Australia HIA new home sales
Other: CRH trading update
WEDNESDAY
Meeting: Information Session on Dublin City Enterprise Board Financial Assistance
Indicators: EMU industrial new orders (Oct), purchasing manager index services (Dec) and producer price index (Nov); US MBA Mortgage Applications (Dec 25), ADP Employment Change, ISM Non-Manufacturing and API Crude Oil Inventories and FOMC minutes; UK Purchasing Manager Index Services; German purchasing manager indez services; Australian ANZ Job Advertisements, Retail Sales Trend (Nov) and Trade Balance (Nov); New Zealand ANZ Commodity Price and trade balance;
THURSDAY
Results: Global Payments; SIG
Indicators: Irish Consumer Price Index (Dec); EMU consumer confidence, economic confidence (Dec) and industrial confidence (Dec) and retail sales (Nov); US initial and continuing jobless claims; UK Halifax house prices (Nov) and Bank of England interest rate decision
FRIDAY
Indicators: Irish Live Register (Dec); EMU GDP and unemployment; US average hourly earnings, nonfarm payroll, unemployment rate, wholesale inventories and consumer credit; UK producer price index (Dec); German trade balance and industrial production.
