MONDAY

Indicators:British house prices (Sep) and retail sales (Sep); German trade balance (Sep) and industrial production (Aug).

TUESDAY

Results:Alcoa; Chevron, Levi Strauss, Givaudan.

Indicators:US economic optimism (Oct); British industrial production (Aug), manufacturing production (Aug) and goods trade balance (Aug); French trade balance (Aug); Irish services index (Aug).

Others: IFA Day of Action

WEDNESDAY

Indicators:US Beige Book (Sep) and 10-year bond auction; German 30-year bond auction; Irish household budget survey (2009-2010 Vol 2)

Others:NDRC annual report; LK Shields energy conference

THURSDAY

Results: Groupon; WH Smith

Meetings: Ibec HR Leadership Summit

Indicators:ECB monthly report (Oct); US trade balance (Aug); German consumer prices (Sep); Irish consumer prices (Sep) and household travel survey (2011)

FRIDAY

Results: First Derivatives, JP Morgan Chase.

Meetings:Dublin Economic Workshop's annual economic policy conference (Galway - to Sun)

Indicators:EMU industrial production (Aug); British leading economic index (Sep); Irish trade statistics (Jul), goods exports and imports (Aug), and banks' funding

Others: Travis Perkins interim management statement