Friday preview: UK retail sales, public sector net borrowing in focus

The financial market spotlight would shift back towards the UK at the end of the week.

At 0700 BST the Office for National Statistics was due to publish figures for retail sales and public sector net borrowing, both covering the month of June.

Consensus was for the former to show a 0.2% gain month-on-month, while the latter was expected to reveal that borrowing increased to a pace of £22bn .

But first, data for the month of June were due out overnight covering Japanese consumer prices, excluding fresh food and energy.

Friday 21 July

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Impax Asset Management Group, Maven Income and Growth VCT 5

FINALS

TheWorks.Co.Uk, Thruvision Group

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Xpediator

AGMS

Bidstack Group , Fadel Partners, Inc Com Stk Usd0.001 (Di) Regs Cat 3/144A, FirstGroup, Northern Venture Trust, Northern Venture Trust, United Utilities Group

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

GFK Consumer Confidence (00:01)

Retail Sales (07:00)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Amati AIM Vct , C&C Group (CDI), Flowtech Fluidpower, ICG Enterprise Trust, Land Securities Group, Medica Group , New Century AIM VCT 2, Robinson, RS Group, RWS Holdings, Skillcast Group