Politics look set to dominate the agenda once again this week, as noteworthy economic indicators will be fairly thin on the ground. On the corporate front, Zurich Life Ireland is due to publish its 2010 financial results today, while United Drug will release an interim management statement at its agm on Thursday.
MONDAY
Results: Zurich Life Ireland
Meeting: Chamber Network Manifesto Launch; Eurogroup meeting (Brussels)
Indicators: EMU Industrial Production (Dec); US NAHB Housing Market Index (Feb)
Other: Engineers Week 2011
TUESDAY
Results: Analog Devices; Barclays; Marsh & McLennan; Yell
Meeting: Meeting of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce's green economy forum (Byrne Wallace, D2); EcoFin meeting
Indicators: EMU GDP (Q4) and Trade Balance (Dec); US Import Price Index (Jan), NY Empire State Manufacturing Index (Feb), Retail Sales (Jan) and ABC/Washington Post Consumer Confidence (Feb 13); UK Consumer Price Index (Jan), DCLG House Price Index (Dec) and Retail Price Index (Jan); German ZEW Survey (Feb)
WEDNESDAY
Results: Beckman Coulter; Heineken; Societe Generale
Meeting: TCD business alumni breakfast briefing on economic policies for the next generation - with Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan and Labour finance spokeswoman Joan Burton; Waterford Chamber event 'The Future is the Cloud' with Paul Rellis of Microsoft Ireland; South East Business Network (Tower Hotel, Waterford); Workplace Health And Safety event (Convention Centre Dublin); Dublin Chamber of Commerce breakfast briefing with Christian Majgaard of Lego (Burlington Hotel)
Indicators: US Housing Starts (Jan), Producer Price Index (Jan), Industrial Production (Jan) and FOMC minutes
Other: Amarin to present at the Leerink Swann Hot Topics in Therapeutics Roundtable Conference (New York)
THURSDAY
Results: Akzo Nobel; BNP Paribas; Cap Gemini; Ladbrokes; Pernod Ricard
Meeting: United Drug agm and interim management statement (The Shelbourne Hotel); Irish Bioenergy Association's 10th annual national conference 'Bioenergy - Delivering for the Irish Economy' (Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise); IAB Ireland's inaugural online advertising conference (Chartered Accountant's House, D2); Kanchi Network Launch (Guinness Storehouse); easyJet agm (London); Gabriel D'Arcy, chief executive of Bord na Mona, will address Chartered Accountants Leinster Society lunch (Conrad Hotel)
Indicators: EMU Consumer Confidence (Feb); Irish County Incomes and Regional GDP (2008); US Consumer Price Index (Jan)
FRIDAY
Results: Lafarge
Meeting: American Chamber of Commerce Ireland 50th Anniversary Black Tie Dinner (Convention Centre Dublin); ESRI 'Growing up in Ireland' data workshop
Indicators: Irish Industrial Disputes (Q4); UK Retail Sales (Jan); German Producer Price Index (Jan)
