Week ahead: UK, French elections, US jobs report in focus
Politics will overshadow the release of the US jobs report this week as weary citizens vent their frustrations at the ballot box.
On 4 July Britons will head to the polls, preceded by their counterparts in France over the next weekend.
The results however are expected to be a mirror image of each other, with the French far-right National Rally expected to come out on top, whilst Labour wins on home shores.
Against that backdrop, on Friday the Department of Labor will release non-farm payrolls figures for the month of June (consensus: 180,000).
On Monday meanwhile, a raft of factory sector purchasing managers' surveys are due out in China, Europe and the US.
Of particular import will be the former and the latter.
They will be followed on Thursday by the results of comparable surveys but for the country's services sector.
US financial markets will remain closed on Thursday in observance of the 4 July holiday.
Monday 01 July
INTERIMS
Porvair
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Bellway, Ecclesiastical Insurance 8.625% Non-Cum Irr Pref Shares, General Accident 'A'
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Construction Spending (US) (15:00)
ISM Manufacturing (US) (15:00)
ISM Prices Paid (US) (15:00)
PMI Manufacturing (GER) (08:55)
PMI Manufacturing (EU) (09:00)
PMI Manufacturing (US) (14:45)
EGMS
SRT Marine Systems
UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Consumer Credit (09:30)
M4 Money Supply (09:30)
Mortgage Approvals (09:30)
Nationwide House Price Index (07:00)
PMI Manufacturing (09:30)
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Fuller Smith and Turner 6% 1st Cumulative Preference 1, Fuller Smith and Turner 8% 2nd Cumulative Preference 1, Marshalls, Renold 6% Cum. Prfd., TotalEnergies SE
Tuesday 02 July
INTERIMS
Kitwave Group
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Blackrock Frontiers Investment Trust, United Kingdom 3 3/4% Treasury Gilt 29/01/2038
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Auto Sales (US) (20:30)
Unemployment Rate (EU) (10:00)
GMS
Artemis Resources Limited NPV (DI)
FINALS
CML Microsystems, DSW Capital, Mercia Asset Management, Supreme
SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Billington Holdings
AGMS
Alkemy Capital Investments , Capital Gearing Trust, Mining, Minerals & Metals , Phoenix Spree Deutschland Limited Shs NPV , Zenova Group
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Billington Holdings, Bunzl, HSS Hire Group
Wednesday 03 July
INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Merchants Trust 3.65% Cumulative Preference 1
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30)
Factory Orders (US) (15:00)
FOMC Interest Rate Minutes (US) (19:00)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)
ISM Prices Paid (US) (15:00)
ISM Services (US) (15:00)
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00)
PMI Composite (EU) (09:00)
PMI Composite (GER) (08:55)
PMI Composite (US) (14:45)
PMI Services (EU) (09:00)
PMI Services (GER) (08:55)
PMI Services (US) (14:45)
Producer Price Index (EU) (10:00)
GMS
Pulsar Group
FINALS
ActiveOps, Baltic Classifieds Group, Baltic Classifieds Group, System1 Group, Zigup, Zigup
AGMS
Airtel Africa , Braemar , Eneraqua Technologies, Golden Prospect Precious Metals Ltd., Jpmorgan European Growth & Income
TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cairn Homes (CDI)
UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
PMI Composite (09:30)
PMI Services (09:30)
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Balfour Beatty
FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Datang International Power Generation Co Ltd.
Thursday 04 July
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Smiths News
INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd Com Shs (DI), Paragon Banking Group, Premier Miton Group, S and U 31.5% Prf. Cum. Prf 12.5P, Safestore Holdings, Treatt, Union Jack Oil, Witan Investment Trust Plc
QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
Law Debenture Corp.
QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Alpha Real Trust Ltd., CT Private Equity Trust, CT UK High Income Trust, CT UK High Income Trust B , Marble Point Loan Financing Limited NPV, Primary Health Properties, Real Estate Credit Investments Ltd
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Factory Orders (GER) (07:00)
FINALS
Trifast, Trifast
SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Manchester & London Investment Trust
AGMS
3i Infrastructure, Assura , Great Portland Estates, JD Sports Fashion, Sainsbury (J), Scottish Mortgage Inv Trust
UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
PMI Construction (09:30)
FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Bank of Georgia Group, Big Yellow Group, Bisichi , Facilities by ADF, Fuller Smith & Turner, ICG Enterprise Trust, NewRiver REIT, Next, Next 15 Group, Shires Income, Skillcast Group, Workspace Group, Young & Co's Brewery 'A' Shares, Young & Co's Brewery (Non-Voting)
Friday 05 July
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Associated British Foods, Britvic, Grainger
QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
BlackRock Sustainable American Income Trust, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund Limited
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Industrial Production (GER) (07:00)
Non-Farm Payrolls (US) (13:30)
Retail Sales (EU) (10:00)
Unemployment Rate (US) (13:30)
SPECIAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Marlowe
AGMS
1Spatial
UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Halifax House Price Index (07:00)
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Capital Gearing Trust, Computacenter, Essentra, Forterra, Hill and Smith, Judges Scientific, Likewise Group, Marks & Spencer Group, Menhaden Resource Efficiency, Warpaint London , Whitbread, WPP