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 15 May
Chris Beauchamp's insight
This week is quieter overall on the corporate and economic fronts, though earnings from Imperial Brands, Burberry and easyJet will be worth watching in the UK. Aside from the German ZEW index, the main focus will be on the US debt ceiling, which will likely dominate markets for the next month.
Economic reports
- Weekly view
Monday
1.30pm – US Empire state mfg index (May): expected to rise to 11. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Tuesday
2.30am – RBA meeting minutes. Markets to watch: AUD crosses
3am – China industrial production (April): expected to rise 10% YoY. Markets to watch: CNH crosses
7am – UK employment data: April claimant count to fall by 15,000, while March unemployment rate holds at 3.8%. Wages to rise 4.9% in March. Markets to watch: GBP crosses
10am – German ZEW index (May): expected to rise to 7 from 4.1. Markets to watch: EUR crosses
1.30pm – Canada CPI (April): prices to rise 3.9% YoY and 0.3% MoM, from 4.3% and 0.5%. Markets to watch: CAD crosses
1.30pm – US retail sales (April): sales to rise 0.7% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Wednesday
12.50am – Japan GDP (Q1, preliminary): growth be 0.7% YoY and 0.1% QoQ. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
3.30pm – US EIA crude oil inventories (w/e 12 May): stockpiles rose by 3 million barrels in the preceding week. Markets to watch: Brent, WTI
Thursday
2.30am – Australia employment data: unemployment rate to hold at 3.5%. Markets to watch: AUD crosses
1.30pm – US initial jobless claims (w/e 13 May): claims to rise to 270K. Markets to watch: USD crosses
3pm – US existing home sales (April): sales to fall 0.5% MoM. Markets to watch: USD crosses
Friday
12.30am – Japan CPI (April): prices to rise 3.1% YoY. Markets to watch: JPY crosses
Company announcements
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Full-year earnings |
Land Securities, Vodafone, BooHoo |
British Land |
National Grid, Premier Foods, Burberry, BT, Int’l Distribution Services |
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Half/ Quarterly earnings |
Imperial Brands, Britvic, Home Depot |
Sage, Cisco |
easyJet, Walmart |
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Trading update* |
Currys | Greggs | Smiths |
Dividends
FTSE 100: Pershing Square, GSK, Bunzl, Unilever, Shell
FTSE 250: Capricorn Energy (16 May special dividend), Spectris, PageGroup, Balfour Beatty, Essentra, Virgin Money
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 15 May |
Tuesday 16 May |
Wednesday 17 May |
Thursday 18 May |
Friday 19 May |
Monday 22 May |
| FTSE 100 | 12.72 | |||||
| Australia 200 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.5 | |||
| Wall Street | 18.5 | 23.0 | 7.8 | |||
| US 500 | 0.22 | 0.81 | 0.77 | 0.14 | 0.48 | 0.08 |
| Nasdaq | 0.13 | 5.05 | 0.70 | 0.58 | ||
| Netherlands 25 | 0.11 | 2.09 | 0.1 | |||
| EU Stocks 50 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 10.5 | |||
| China H-Shares | 1.4 | 3.7 | 0.5 | |||
| Singapore Blue Chip | ||||||
| Hong Kong HS50 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 11.0 | 6.6 | 39.5 | |
| South Africa 40 | ||||||
| Italy 40 | 349.7 | |||||
| Japan 225 |
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