The Week Ahead On The Markets
The Week Ahead
Read about upcoming market-moving events and plan your trading week
Week commencing 20 December
Chris Beauchamp’s insight
The next two weeks are, as is usual, quite. Only Nike on 20 December is of note on the corporate front. Meanwhile, US durable goods orders in the first week, and then Chinese PMI data right at the end of the year, provide the only real major economic events to watch.
- Weekly view
Monday
None
Tuesday
7am – Germany consumer confidence (January): index to fall to 36. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
3pm – eurozone consumer confidence (December, flash): expected to fall to -8. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
Wednesday
7am – UK GDP (Q3, final): expected to be 6.6% YoY and 1.3% QoQ. Markets to watch: GBP crosses
1.30pm – US GDP (Q3, final), Chicago Fed index (November): GDP to remain at 5.9% YoY and 2.1% QoQ, Chicago Fed index to fall to 0.5. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3pm – US existing home sales (November), consumer confidence: sales forecast to fall 2.7% MoM, confidence to rise to 112. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3.30pm – US EIA crude oil inventories (w/e 17 December): stockpiles fell by 4.8 million barrels in the previous week. Markets to watch: Brent, WTI
Thursday
1.30pm – US PCE price index (November), durable goods orders (November), initial jobless claims (w/e 18 December): PCE price index to rise 5.5% YoY and 0.4% MoM, goods orders to rise 1.5% and claims to fall to 204K Markets to watch: US indices, USD crosses
3pm – US new home sales (November): sales to rise 3.4% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
11.30pm – Japan CPI (November): prices to rise 0.4% YoY and 0.3% MoM. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
Friday
Christmas Eve – UK markets close at 12pm
US markets closed
Company announcements
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Full-year earnings |
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Half/ Quarterly earnings
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Micron Technology, Nike |
General Mills | |||
Trading update
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Dividends
FTSE 100: British American Tobacco, Halma, Evraz
FTSE 250: Mercantile Inv. Trust, IntegraFin
Dividends are applied after the close of the previous day’s session for each market. So, for example, the FTSE 100 goes ex-dividend on a Thursday, but the adjustment is applied at the close of the previous day, e.g. Wednesday. The table below shows the days in which the adjustment is applied, not the ex-dividend days.
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