Business this week

THE EVENT of the week is likely to come on Wednesday with the release of the CSO live register figures for April.

THE EVENT of the week is likely to come on Wednesday with the release of the CSO live register figures for April.

Monday

Results: Audi; Edwards Lifesciences; Verizon; Whirlpool.

Meetings: Housing experts to discuss future of housing policy at National Housing Conference 2009 Readjustment, Resilience, Resurgence (to 28th, Radisson Hotel, Sligo); Dermot Desmond interviewed by Claire Byrne (NCI, Mayor Street)

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Indicators:British nationwide housing prices (Apr); German Gfk consumer confidence survey (May); Japanese large retailer's sales (Mar) and retail trade (Mar).

Tuesday

Results: Becton Dickinson; BP; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Icon; Coca-Cola Enterprises; Daimler; Deutsche Bank; E*TRADE Financial; Honda: Intrum Justitia; Jones Lang LaSalle; Pfizer; Sun Microsystems; Unisys

Meetings:Build Your Business Online with a Business Blog IIA seminar (IPA); Chambers Cork business breakfast with economist Jim Power (Clarion Hotel); National final of formula 1 in schools technology challenge 2009 (Griffith College, D8;

Galway Chamber of Commerce spring lunch – Prof Niamh Brennan guest speaker on: Is Irish Business Over-regulated? (Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa, Galway)

Indicators: Irish trade statistics (Dec); US consumer confidence (Apr), ABC/Washington Post consumer confidence (Apr 26th) and Richmond Fed manufacturing index (Apr); British CBI distributive trades survey (Apr) and Gfk consumer confidence (Apr); German consumer price index (Apr); Swiss UBS consumption indicator (Mar); New Zealand Trade Balance (Mar).

Others: ESRI quarterly economic commentary, spring 2009, by Alan Barrett, Ide Kearney and Jean Goggin to be published.

Wednesday

Results: Bayer; Burger King; CB Richard Ellis; Cirrus Logic; Goodyear; Insignia; Moody's; Regis; SAP; Saint-Gobain; Siemens: Skechers; Starbucks; Time Warner; Trinity Biotech; Wyeth meetings; AIB agm (Bank Centre, Ballsbridge, D4); FBD agm and egm; Grafton Group agm (IMI Conference Centre, Sandyford Road, D16); Energy Show – business-to-business event organised by SEI (to 30th, RDS, D4).

Indicators: EU M3 (Mar); Irish external trade (Feb), live register (Apr) and vehicles licensed for first time (Mar); US MBA mortgage applications (Apr 24th), gross domestic product annualised (Q1) and Fed interest rate decision; German retail sales (Mar); Japanese Nomura/JMMA manufacturing purchasing manager index (Apr).

Others: FBD interim management statement.

Thursday

Results: Apache; Canon; Colgate-Palmolive; Domino's; Expedia; For rester Research; Horizon Financial; Hugo Boss; Kellogg; Lufthansa; Motorola; Pernod Ricard; Procter Gamble: Smith Nephew; Unifi; Viacom; Villeroy Boch.

Meetings:Digital Media Engagemement conference with Dr Edward de Bono; Young Entrepreneur programme awards 2009.

Indicators:Irish recorded crime (Q1), census 2006 – profile of the working population of large towns and agricultural price indices (Feb); US core personal consumption expenditure – prices index (Mar); German retail sales (Mar); Australian Conference Board Australia leading index (Feb) and HIA new home sales (Mar).

Others: Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan will open a PIBA broker conference (Four Seasons Hotel, D4); RDS to host business breakfast seminar in association with Ireland China Association Selling into China (RDS); Irish finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup (Science Gallery, TCD).

Friday

Results:Allergan; Aon; Chevron; Washington Post.

Indicators:Irish live register additional tables (Apr), retail sales index (Feb) and tourism and travel (2008).