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Economic Events - Month Ahead Events

UK

04/06/2012 00:00 Bank Holiday
04/06/2012 09:30 Construction PMI
05/06/2012 00:00 Bank Holiday
05/06/2012 09:30 Services PMI
06/06/2012 00:01 BRC Shop Price Index y/y
07/06/2012 00:01 BRC Retail Sales Monitor y/y
07/06/2012 00:01 RICS House Price Balance
07/06/2012 09:30 Industrial Production m/m
07/06/2012 09:30 Manufacturing Production m/m
07/06/2012 12:00 Official Bank Rate
07/06/2012 12:00 Asset Purchase Facility
08/06/2012 09:30 PPI Output m/m
08/06/2012 09:30 Consumer Inflation Expectations
08/06/2012 09:30 PPI Input m/m
12/06/2012 09:30 Trade Balance
12/06/2012 09:30 Current Account
12/06/2012 15:00 NIESR GDP Estimate
13/06/2012 09:30 HPI y/y
14/06/2012 00:01 Nationwide Consumer Confidence
14/06/2012 10:00 CB Leading Index m/m
15/06/2012 09:30 Public Sector Net Borrowing
15/06/2012 11:00 CBI Industrial Order Expectations
18/06/2012 00:01 Rightmove HPI m/m
18/06/2012 09:30 Index of Services 3m/3m
19/06/2012 00:01 BOE Quarterly Bulletin
19/06/2012 09:30 Core CPI y/y
19/06/2012 09:30 CPI y/y
19/06/2012 09:30 RPI y/y
19/06/2012 11:00 CBI Realized Sales
20/06/2012 09:30 Unemployment Rate
20/06/2012 09:30 Average Earnings Index 3m/y
20/06/2012 09:30 MPC Meeting Minutes
20/06/2012 09:30 Claimant Count Change
21/06/2012 09:30 Retail Sales m/m
27/06/2012 09:30 BBA Mortgage Approvals
28/06/2012 09:30 Revised Business Investment q/q
28/06/2012 09:30 Final GDP q/q
28/06/2012 09:30 BOE Credit Conditions Survey
29/06/2012 00:01 BOE Financial Stability Report
29/06/2012 00:01 GfK Consumer Confidence
02/07/2012 09:30 Manufacturing PMI

01/06/2012

Economic Events - 7 Days Ahead Events

UK

04/06/2012 00:00 Bank Holiday
04/06/2012 09:30 Construction PMI
05/06/2012 00:00 Bank Holiday
05/06/2012 09:30 Services PMI
06/06/2012 00:01 BRC Shop Price Index y/y
07/06/2012 00:01 RICS House Price Balance
07/06/2012 00:01 BRC Retail Sales Monitor y/y
07/06/2012 09:30 Industrial Production m/m
07/06/2012 09:30 Manufacturing Production m/m
07/06/2012 12:00 Official Bank Rate
07/06/2012 12:00 Asset Purchase Facility
08/06/2012 09:30 PPI Output m/m
08/06/2012 09:30 Consumer Inflation Expectations
08/06/2012 09:30 PPI Input m/m

01/06/2012

Economic Events - Today's Events

UK

01/06/2012 09:30 Manufacturing PMI
01/06/2012 10:00 10-y Bond Auction

01/06/2012

FTSE tipped to open modestly higher in pre-holiday trade

PRE-OPEN REPORT: Headline shares are tipped to open eighteen to twenty-three points higher today, according to financial websites, although activity is likely to be limited ahead of the long holiday weekend.

01/06/2012

The Press Roundup

A brief summary of Friday's main business headlines... Extensive coverage of Spanish bailout fears, F1 IPO pulled, Xstrata, BAE, Halfords, Prudential.....

01/06/2012

Losses increase at V22

Losses have increased at V22, the first publicly traded contemporary art collection.

31/05/2012

Power Public Corporation reduce level of overdue debts

Suggestions have been made in a press article mentioning that Public Power Corporation is not taking action to ensure payment of overdue receivables from unpaid electricity bills amounting to €1.3bn.

31/05/2012

Resignation from Quarto Board

Robert Morley, who has been a director of The Quarto Group for many years, has stepped down from the Board.

31/05/2012

FTSE firmly higher in midday trade on rallying resources

MIDDAY REPORT: Headline shares were firmly higher in midday trade, as investors shrugged off concerns over Greece and Spain, and with rallying resources prices helping miners and oil producers make progress.

31/05/2012

Brokers' round-up, buy Premier Oil and Stagecoach Group

UBS upgrades Premier Oil from neutral to buy.

31/05/2012