Thursday preview: Fedspeak, German industrial production in focus

Investors' attention on Thursday will be on a busy schedule of Fed speakers with at least four top US central bank officials expected to deliver remarks.

Nevertheless, all of them will be taking to the podium after the close of trading in London.

Also due out are weekly initial jobless claims figures, at 1330 BST.

Across the Channel meanwhile, Germany's ministry of finance will publish factory orders data covering the month of August at 0700 BST.

They will be followed at 1000 BST by data on euro area retail sales for that same month.

On home shores, the sole economic indicator due out is S&P Global's construction sector Purchasing Managers' Index for September.

Thursday 06 October

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Convatec Group , InterContinental Hotels Group, Intertek Group, Serco Group, Uniphar (CDI), Woodside Energy Group Ltd NPV (DI)

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Andrews Sykes Group, Bank of Georgia Group, Barr (A.G.), Bodycote, Centaur Media, Centrica, Christie Group, Curtis Banks Group, EMIS Group, Hammerson, HSS Hire Group , Hunting, Johnson Service Group, Judges Scientific, Keywords Studios, Kingfisher, Learning Technologies Group , Mears Group, Medica Group , Morgan Sindall Group, Mortgage Advice Bureau (Holdings) , Panther Securities, Personal Group Holdings, Phoenix Spree Deutschland Limited Shs NPV , Skillcast Group, Spectris, Stelrad Group , Strix Group , Synthomer, Tandem Group, Ten Entertainment Group , TP Icap Group , Travis Perkins, Triple Point Income VCT C, Triple Point Income VCT D, Triple Point Income VCT E, Vistry Group , Weir Group

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE

GSK

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Anglo Pacific Group, CT Private Equity Trust, CT UK High Income Trust, CT UK High Income Trust B , Law Debenture Corp., Marble Point Loan Financing Limited NPV, Marsh & Mclennan Cos Inc., Real Estate Investors, Supermarket Income Reit

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)

Factory Orders (GER) (07:00)

Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)

Retail Sales (EU) (10:00)

FINALS

Avation

IMSS

City of London Group

SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Andrews Sykes Group, D4T4 Solutions, Foresight VCT

AGMS

Braemar , Diageo, T42 Iot Tracking Solutions NPV

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS

RS Group

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

PMI Construction (09:30)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Adept Technology Group, Inspects Group , Manolete Partners, MIGO Opportunities Trust

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Abrdn UK Smaller Companies Growth Trust, Begbies Traynor Group, Frenkel Topping Group, Heavitree Brewery 11 1/2% Cum Prf , Ingenta, K3 Capital Group , Kainos Group , Latham (James) 8% Cumulative Preference 1, Smith (DS), TPXimpact Holdings