Week ahead: Fed minutes, Beige book in focus

The coming week is set to get off to a slow start given the Columbus Day holiday Stateside on 10 October, which will see fixed income markets remain closed although the NYSE will keep its doors open for share dealing.

In the following session, the ZEW institute will release its economic confidence index for the month of October, providing a timely update on analysts´ confidence in the current economic cycle.

The most significant session will be Wednesday, with the minutes of the US central bank´s last policy meeting and the Federal Reserve´s Beige book both set for release.

Following that, another barrage of US data is due to be published on Friday, including data on producer prices, retail sales, business inventories and the preliminary reading on the University of Michigan´s consumer confidence index for the month of October.

Meanwhile, and the UK, the data calendar was set to be quite light, with only the RICS house price survey data.

Over in Europe, euro area-wide industrial production figures for August are set to be published on Wednesday, followed by consumer price data for Germany, Italy and Spain at the tail-end of the week.

Monday October 10

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Aukett Swanke Group , Hammerson

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
BlackRock Income Strategies Trust

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (GER) (07:00)
Current Account (GER) (07:00)

FINALS
Surface Transforms, Waterman Group, YouGov

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Colefax Group, Newmark Security PLC, UniVision Engineering Ltd.

Tuesday October 11

INTERIMS
LiDCO Group, Redstoneconnect, Ted Baker

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Holders Technology, JPMorgan American Inv Trust, UBM

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
ZEW Survey (EU) (10:00)
ZEW Survey (GER) (10:00)

FINALS
Genedrive , Nanoco Group, River and Mercantile Group , Volution Group (WI)

ANNUAL REPORT
River and Mercantile Group

IMSS
Pagegroup

EGMS
Fondul Proprietatea S.A. GDR (Reg S)

AGMS
Harvest Minerals Limited (DI)

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Tricorn Group

Wednesday October 12

INTERIMS
Tissue Regenix Group

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd. (Singapore), Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd (Singapore Reg), Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd. (Singapore), Maintel Holdings, Mandarin Oriental International (Singapore), Neptune-Calculus Income & Growth VCT, Pagegroup

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (21:30)
Industrial Production (EU) (10:00)
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00)

FINALS
Animalcare Group, Diurnal Group, Proactis Holdings

IMSS
Hays

DRILLING REPORT
Fresnillo

SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Pagegroup

AGMS
Ashley (Laura) Holding, FinnAust Mining, Project Finance Investments Limited

Thursday October 13

INTERIMS
Booker Group

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Arrow Global Group, Communisis, Macfarlane Group, Molins, Restaurant Group, Zotefoams

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Action Hotels, Amati Vct 2, Braime (T.F.& J.H.) Holdings, British American Inv Trust, Centrica, Charles Taylor, Curtis Banks Group, Dillistone Group, F&C Private Equity Trust, Kerry Group 'A' Shares, Manx Telecom , Mears Group, Morgan Sindall Group, OneSavings Bank, Restore, Scisys, Spectris, Spirax-Sarco Engineering, Sprue Aegis, Staffline Group, Tandem Group, Witan Pacific Inv Trust

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
GlaxoSmithKline, XP Power Ltd. (DI)

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Custodian Reit , F&C Commercial Property Trust Ltd., Middlefield Canadian Income PCC, Primary Health Properties

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Budget Statement (US) (19:00)
Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00)
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (16:00)
Import and Export Price Indices (US) (13:30)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)

Q3
Unilever

FINALS
Imperial Innovations Group, WH Smith

EGMS
Avarae Global Coins

AGMS
Leeds Group, Renishaw, Sky

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mondi

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
RICS Housing Market Survey (00:01)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Avation

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
City of London Investment Group, Close Brothers Group, CPL Resources, Daejan Holdings, Hays, JPMorgan Emerging Markets Inv Trust, Pacific Horizon Inv Trust, Schroder Japan Growth Fund, Strategic Equity Capital

Q1
Sky

Friday October 14

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Chesnara, Christie Group, Computacenter, Foresight VCT Planned Exit Shares, G4S, Highcroft Investment, Impellam Group, Intertek Group, Phoenix Spree Deutschland Limited SHS NPV , Robert Walters, RPS Group, RSA Insurance Group, SafeCharge International Group Limited (DI), Sanne Group, Total Produce, Treatt, Zegona Communications

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
Schlumberger Ltd., Total SA

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (EU) (10:00)
Business Inventories (US) (15:00)
Producer Price Index (US) (13:30)
Retail Sales (US) (01:30)
Retail Sales Less Autos (US) (01:30)
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00)

GMS
MBL Group

FINALS
Inland Homes

IMSS
Provident Financial

AGMS
Atlantis Japan Growth Fund Ltd., PME African Infrastructure Opportunities, Rank Group

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Best of the Best, Coral Products, Sophos Group , Trifast, United Carpets Group