The Week Ahead On The Markets
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The Week Ahead
Read about upcoming market-moving events and plan your trading week
Week commencing 19 December
Chris Beauchamp's insight
The final two weeks of the year are, as usual, relatively quiet. With the Federal Reserve (Fed), Bank of England (BoE) and European Central Bank (ECB) meetings out of the way, and the latest US inflation figures out, there is not much of note left to report before year-end. The Bank of Japan is expected to leave rates unchanged, and even the durable goods figures are unlikely to excite much comment. Corporate news is very thin, with just FedEx and Nike earnings in the week before Christmas.
Economic reports (week commencing 19 December)
- Weekly view
Monday
9am – German IFO index (December): business climate index to rise to 87. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
Tuesday
12.30am – RBA meeting minutes. Markets to watch: AUD crosses
3am – Bank of Japan rate decision: rates to remain at -0.1%. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
3pm – eurozone consumer confidence (December): index to fall to -24.6. Markets to watch: EUR crosse12.30am – RBA meeting minutes. Markets to watch: AUD crosses
Wednesday
7am – German GfK consumer confidence (January): index to rise to -36. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
1.30pm – Canada CPI (November): prices to rise 6.8% YoY and 0.4% MoM, from 6.9% and 0.7% respectively. Markets to watch: CAD crosses
3pm – US existing home sales (November), consumer confidence (December): sales to fall 1.7% MoM and consumer confidence to drop to 100 from 100.2. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3.30pm – US EIA crude oil inventories (w/e 16 December): previous week saw stockpiles rise by 10.2 million barrels. Markets to watch: Brent, WTI7am – German GfK consumer confidence (January): index to rise to -36. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
Thursday
1.30pm – US initial jobless claims (w/e 17 December), Chicago Fed nat’l activity index (November): Markets to watch: USD crosses
11.30pm – Japan CPI (November): prices to rise 3.9% YoY from 3.7%. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
Friday
Christmas Eve – half day for UK and US markets
1.30pm – US durable goods orders (November): orders to rise 0.8% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3pm – US new home sales (November): sales to rise 3% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Economic reports (week commencing 26 December)
- Weekly view
Monday
Boxing Day – UK markets closed
11.30pm – Japan unemployment rate (November): forecast to hold at 2.6%. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
Tuesday
UK bank holiday – UK markets closed
None
Wednesday
3pm – US pending home sales (November): sales fell 4.6% last month. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Thursday
1.30pm – US initial jobless claims (w/e 24 December) Markets to watch: USD crosses
4pm – US EIA crude oil inventories (w/e 23 December) Markets to watch: Brent, WTI
Friday
2.45pm – US Chicago PMI (December): previous reading 37.2. Markets to watch: USD crosses
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Dividends (22 December)
FTSE 100: British American Tobacco, Halma, United Utilities
FTSE 250: Britvic, Home REIT, IntegraFin Holdings
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.
Dividends (29 December)
FTSE 100: BT
FTSE 250: Grainger
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.
Index adjustments
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Monday 26 December |
| FTSE 100 | 5.23 | |||||
| Australia 200 | 0.4 | |||||
| Wall Street | ||||||
| US 500 | 0.14 | 0.54 | 0.11 | 0.30* | ||
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| Netherlands 25 | ||||||
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| South Africa 40 | 30.2 | |||||
| Italy 40 | ||||||
| Japan 225 |
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