For your diary

TODAY
Results: Alcoa.
Indicators: Irish trade balance (Nov); US labour market conditions index (Dec).
Other: Taylor Wimpey trading update.

TOMORROW
Results: Südzucker.
Indicators: Euro zone current account (Nov); US NIFD business optimism index (Dec) and 30-year bond auction; UK consumer price index (Dec), PPI core output (Dec) and retail price index (Dec); OECD harmonised unemployment rates.
Other: SIG trading statement.

WEDNESDAY
Results: JP Morgan Chase; Wells Fargo.
Meetings: "Taxation and Small Business" SFA seminar (Gibson Hotel); Dublin Chamber networking breakfast. Indicators: Euro zone industrial production (Nov); US retail sales (Dec), Fed's Beige Book and business inventories (Nov); French consumer price index (Dec).
Other: Trading updates from Premier Oil and Barratt Developments.

THURSDAY
Results: Bank of America; Blackrock; Citigroup; Intel.
Indicators: Euro zone trade balance (Nov); US producer price index (Dec) and NAHB housing market index (Jan); UK RICS housing price balance (Dec); German wholesale price index (Dec).
Other: Bovis Homes trading update; Associated British Foods interim management statement; Tullow Oil trading statement.

FRIDAY
Results: Schwab; Goldman Sachs; M&T Bank; Morgan Stanley.
Indicators: Euro zone consumer price index (Dec); US consumer price index (Dec), industrial production (Dec) and Reuters/Michigan consumer sentiment index (Jan); German consumer price index (Dec); Japanese industrial production (Nov).