The fallout from the Budget and the Government’s decision to set up a National Asset Management Agency (Nama) to buy risky bank loans will continue to dominate the news agenda in the holiday-shortened week ahead.
Fresh economic newsflow will be light this week, with the only Irish indicator being the Ulster Bank Construction PMI figures for March, which are due out tomorrow.
TODAY
Easter Monday– Irish market closed
Results:Talbots
Indicators:Japanese domestic wholesale prices (March).
TOMORROW
Results:Commerce Bancshares; Goldman Sachs; Intel; Johnson Johnson
Meetings:Dragon Oil agm; World Economic Forum on Latin America: '' Implications of the Global Economic Crisis for Latin America'' (Rio de Janeiro)
Indicators:Irish Ulster Bank Construction PMI (Mar); US PPI (March), retail sales (March) and business inventories (February); UK RICS housing market survey (March).
WEDNESDAY
Results:Blue Oar; Kenmare Resources
Meetings:Irish League of Credit Unions annual results, briefing by chief executive Kieron Brennan.
Indicators:US CPI (March); New York Fed - Empire state index (April), real earnings (March), TICS net inflows (February), industrial production (March), NAHB Housing market index (April) and Fed Beige Book published; UK DCLG house price index (February); Spanish CPI (March); German wholesale prices (March)
Others:Trading updates from SSL International and WS Atkins.
THURSDAY
Results:Baxter; Google; Grosvenor; Harley-Davidson; JPMorgan; Nokia; Polaris Industries; PPG Industries; Sonoco; Southwest Airlines; Ideal Shopping Direct
Meetings:BP agm; AirSpeed Telecom, telecommunications information event for businesses in the west and midwest – Minister of State Tony Killeen to attend (Information Age Park, Ennis)
Indicators:EU industrial production (February) and final HICP (March); US housing starts (March), initial jobless claims (week ending April 11th); UK BRC retail sales (March); Italian CPI final (March)
Others:Trading updates from Experian, SABmiller and Halfords; OECD publishes economic survey of New Zealand.
FRIDAY
Results:Citigroup; Mattel meetings: Trade union rally for jobs and workers' rights (Belfast City Hall)
Indicators:US Michigan sentiment (April); Italian industrial orders (February); Japanese consumer confidence index (March
Others:OECD publishes ''Jobs for Youth: Australia''
