Wednesday preview: Fedspeak, Beige Book in focus

Investors' focus in the middle of the week will continue to be on the scheduled remarks of top Fed officials as investors continue to wait on the week's key release, the PCE price index on Friday.

At 1745 BST, New York Fed boss, Christopher Williams, will deliver a speech, followed by his peer at the Atlanta Fed, Raphael Bostic, at 2300 BST.

In between, at 1800 BST, the Federal Reserve will release its latest Beige Book, a compendium of anecdotal observations of the economy that is published about a fortnight before each Federal Reserve policy meeting.

Across the Channel, at 0600 BST consultancy GfK will publish the results of its consumer confidence survey for Germany covering the month of June.

M3 money supply figures for the euro area in April are due out at 0800 BST.

No major economic releases are scheduled in the UK.

Wednesday 29 May

INTERIMS

Impax Asset Management Group, React Group

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE

NOTTS.B.S. 7 7/8% PERM INT BEARING SHS

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.NPV (CDI)

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

GFK Consumer Confidence (GER) (07:00)

M3 Money Supply (EU) (09:00)

MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00)

GMS

B&M European Value Retail S.A. (DI)

FINALS

Pets at Home Group

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Seplat Energy (DI)

AGMS

Biome Technologies, CloudCoco Group , CT Private Equity Trust, Glencore , Integrated Diagnostics Holdings, Mercantile Investment Trust (The), UK Oil & Gas , Xaar

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

BRC Shop Price Index (00:01)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Bakkavor Group , Croda International, Fresnillo, Mortgage Advice Bureau (Holdings) , Seplat Energy (DI), Stelrad Group , Tyman

Q1

Bank of Georgia Group