External trade figures for December are due out on Wednesday and given the reliance of the economy on the export sector, it is hoped that the last month in 2009 delivered a strong performance.
MONDAY
Results: Nordstrom
Meeting: Launch of Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 (City Hall, Dame St, Dublin 2); launch by Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Hanafin of Family Figures: Family Dynamics and Family Types in Ireland, 1986-2006 (ESRI, D2); Lecture on innovation to explore German experience and venture capital (Engineers Ireland, D4); National Dairy Council to host its Annual Review press briefing (Conrad Hotel, D2).
Indicators: Irish analysis of Live Register lows (Q1 2009); Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting.
Other: Trading update from Associated British Foods.
TUESDAY
Results: Dragon Oil; Carlsberg; Heineken; Home Depot; Kerry.
Meeting: William Fry to host breakfast briefing "Banking on NAMA: The Future of the Irish Property Market".
Indicators: Irish overseas travel; (Dec), Agricultural price indices (Dec) and trade statistics (Oct).
WEDNESDAY
Results: Barratt Developments; Garmin; Iberia; Logica; The TJX Companies; The Washington Post; Thomson Reuters.
Meeting: Hothousing Digital Ideas event (D4 Hotels); Colm Lyon, founder Realex Payments, will launch 14th NovaUCD "Entrepreneurs Live!" lunchtime seminar series (Nova UCD).
Indicators: EMU industrial new orders (Dec); Irish external trade (Dec); US industrial new orders (Dec), MBA mortgage applications (Feb 19) and MBA mortgage applications (Feb 19).
THURSDAY
Results: Allianz; British American Tobacco; Credit Agricole; Deutsche Postbank; EMC Insurance; Gap; HJ Heinz; Icon; Royal Bank of Scotland.
Meeting: Digital Media Awards (Crowne Plaza Hotel, D9); Forum on Public Procurement in Ireland holding annual conference "Promoting Recovery through Public Procurement", with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny and UCD economist Colm McCarthy (Westbury Hotel, D2); OECD agriculture ministers to meet in Paris; American Chamber of Commerce presidential lunch 2010 (Four Seasons Hotel, D4).
Indicators: Irish working conditions quarterly national household survey (Q1 2008), Wholesale price index (Jan).
FRIDAY
Results: Lloyds Banking; William Hill.
Indicators: EMU consumer price Index (Jan); Irish private-sector credit (Jan); US Ccnsumer price Index (Jan); UK consumer price Index (Feb) and Nationwide housing prices (Feb); German consumer price index (Feb).
