THE MAIN focus this week ahead will be the latest Government bond auction, which will act as a gauge of international market reaction to the supplementary Budget.
The National Treasury Management Agency is hoping to raise up to €1 billion through two bond sales and, according to economists, the outlook for the auction is reasonably good.
Monday
Results: Bank of America; Boston Scientific; Crane; Eli Lilly; Halliburton; Hasbro; Stryker; Trinity Biotech.
Meetings: Siemens Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Report: Dublin – a view to 2025 to be published (Conrad Hotel, Dublin 2).
Indicators: US leading indicators (March); UK Rightmove house prices (April).
Tuesday
Results: Bank of New York Mellon; Caterpillar; Delta Air Lines; Forest Laboratories; Lockheed Martin; MT Bank; Manpower; Merck Co; SanDisk; Schering-Plough; Coca-Cola; The New York Times; Western Union; Yahoo.
Meetings: First meeting of Cleantech Ireland network (UCD Smurfit Graduate School of Business); Ivan Yates to speak at Business Intelligencebreakfast hosted by Grant Thornton with DNM Technology and Microsoft; PR, Social Networking and Blogging in Practicehalf-day conference hosted by Mediacontact.ie (Guinness Storehouse); Dublin University Management Science Society event on science of management consultancy in a recession (Science Gallery, TCD); Launch of Louth Economic Forum (Governor's House, Millmount, Drogheda).
Indicators: UK consumer price index (March); German ZEW index (April); German producer price index (March); Bank of Canada rate announcement.
Others: Launch of National Competitiveness Council report Our Cities: Drivers of National Competitiveness; Combat Poverty proposals to deal with over-indebtedness (European Public Information Centre, Dublin 2); NCPP media launch The Print Industry Fights Back(National Print Museum, Beggar's Bush, Dublin 4).
Wednesday
Results: Apple; ATT; Continental Airlines; eBay; Elan; Electrolux; Genzyme; GlaxoSmithKline; Heineken; Logitech; McDonald's; Morgan Stanley; Novellus Systems; Pepsi Bottling; Provident Financial; Qualcomm; Sanmina- SCI; Susquehanna Bancshares; TomTom; Wells Fargo; Xilinx.
Meetings: Business Blogging – Join The Conversationbreakfast briefing; Prize Bond Company to publish 2008 annual results and first quarter sales figures at agm.
Indicators: EU flash PMI (April), current account (February) and industrial orders (February); US initial jobless claims and existing home sales (March); UK CBI industrial orders (April); French business climate (April); Italian consumer confidence (April).
Thursday
Results: AT Cross; Amazon.com; American Express; Amgen; Black Decker; Celestica; Chubb; ConocoPhillips; Credit Suisse; Debenhams; EMC; Hershey; Invesco; JetBlue Airways; Marriott; Microsoft; Novartis; PepsiCo; Sodexo.
Meetings: Unified Communications seminar (Conrad Hotel, Dublin 2); Persimmon agm (York).
Indicators: Irish wholesale price index (March).
Others: Philip Berber, chief executive of A Glimmer of Hope foundation to speak at UCD Quinn School of Business.
Friday
Results: Xerox.
Meetings: Delivering a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan in Tough Timesbreakfast seminar (Westbury Hotel, Dublin 2); Lufthansa agm; IBOA Conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Santry).
Indicators: Irish household travel survey (quarter4); US durable goods (March); UK GDP (quarter 1) and retail sales (March); French consumer spending (March); German IFO index (April).
