Following the high-profile arrest of former Anglo chairman Sean Fitzpatrick last week, it is believed that a report submitted to the Department of Finance by the Comptroller Auditor General on the measures taken by the Financial Regulator in response to the banking crisis may be published this week.
TODAY
Results: Kentz; Regus; Rite Aid; Tiffany; Wolseley
Meeting: Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Enterprise Week
Indicators: Australian New Motor Vehicle Sales (Feb); Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
Other: World Water Day
TOMORROW
Results: Adobe Systems; Buzzi Unicem; ICG; Tiscali; UTV Media
Meeting: Friends First Quarterly Economic Outlook Avoiding a Greek Tragedy (Merrion Hotel); NovaUCD Open Morning with Ray Nolan, founder of Web Reservations International; Innovation in Business breakfast seminar (NCI, IFSC)
Indicators: US Existing Home Sales (Feb), Richmond Fed Manufacturing Index (Mar) and API Crude Oil Inventories (Mar 19th); UK BBA Mortgage Approvals (Feb), Consumer Price Index (Feb) and Retail Price Index (Feb); New Zealand Current Account (Q4); Japanese Supermarket Sales (Feb)
Other: OECD launches publication SMEs, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
WEDNESDAY
Results: Independent News Media; Wienerberger; Bellway
Meeting: Construction IT Alliance meeting (Radisson Hotel, D8)
Indicators: EMU Purchasing Manager Index Manufacturing (Mar) and Industrial New Orders (Jan); Irish Quarterly National Household Survey (Q4); US Durable Goods Orders (Feb), MBA Mortgage Applications (Mar 19), New Home Sales (Feb) and EIA Crude Oil Stocks change (Mar 19); UK Budget and CBI Distributive Trades Survey - Realized (Mar); German Purchasing Manager Index (Mar) and IFO - Business Climate (Mar)
THURSDAY
Results: Accenture; Next; Oracle
Meeting: Executive Insights event with Eircom chief executive Paul Donovan; Free Information Risk Management Workshop - An Auditor’s Perspective (Espion Training Centre, Deansgrange Business Park); Foresight and Future Trends Workshop (Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, Citywest); Carlsberg agm; The AIFM Directive Striking the right balance between protection and growth (Brussels); RDS Energy lecture by Declan Murphy Ireland on the Edge: Energy Security ; Cloud Computing breakfast briefing (Mason Hayes + Curran, D4)
Indicators: EMU M3 (Feb); Irish Quarterly National Accounts (Q4 and 2009), Balance of International Payments (Q4 and 2009), Trade Statistics (Nov), Quarterly National Household Survey Union Membership and Vital Statistics (Q3); US jobless claims; UK retail sales (Feb); German Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey (Apr)
FRIDAY
Results: Villeroy Boch;
Meeting: ESI seminar Transforming Ireland – Mobilising Innovation and Enterprise to become a prosperous low carbon society (Royal College of Physicians, D2)
Indicators: Irish Production in Building and Construction Index (Q4), Crops and Livestock Survey (June), External Trade (Jan) and Tourism and Travel (Q4); US Reuters/Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index (Mar), Real Personal Consumption Expenditures (Q4) and Real Personal Consumption Expenditures (Q4); UK Total Business Investment (Q4)
