Monday 28 August
UK BANK HOLIDAY – UK MARKETS CLOSED
Intl Economic Announcements
13:30 Wholesale Inventories, Advance Goods Trade Balance (US)
15:30 Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity (US)
Tuesday 29 August
UK Results/Updates: Bunzl, Nostrum Oil & Gas, Polymetal International
US Results/Updates: Altaba (formerly Yahoo!), Best Buy
Intl Economic Announcements
00:30 Unemployment (JP)
07:00 GfK Consumer Confidence (DE)
07:45 Q2 GDP (FR)
14:00 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (US)
15:00 Consumer Confidence (US)
Wednesday 30 August
UK Results/Updates: Diploma, HSS Hire, Gym Group, Petrofac, WH Smith
EU Results/Updates: Carrefour
US Results/Updates: Costco (August sales), Workday
UK Economic Announcements
00:01 BRC Shop Price Index
09:30 Mortgage Approvals & Consumer Credit
Intl Economic Announcements
00:50 Retail Sales (JP)
10:00 Confidence Indicators (EZ)
12:00 MBA Mortgage Applications (US)
13:00 CPI (DE)
13:15 ADP Employment Change (US)
13:30 GDP & Personal Consumption (US)
15:30 EIA Crude Oil inventories (US)
Thursday 31 August
UK Results/Updates: Alfa Financial Software, Grafton Group, Hays, Jimmy Choo, Ladbrokes Coral, Melrose Industries, Restaurant Group
EU Results/Updates: Vivendi
US Results/Updates: Dollar General, L Brands (August Sales), Palo Alto Networks
Ex-Dividends (The estimated dividend impact on the UK 100 this week is 1.2pts)
UK 100 : Croda 35p, G4S 3.6p, Hammerson 10.7p, Intercontinental Hotels Group 25.8p, St. James’s Place 15.4p
: Alliance Trust 3.3p, Ascential 1.8p, Auto Trader 3.5pm Centamin 2p, Esure 1.2p + 2.9p, Hochschild Mining 1.1p, JP Morgan American Investment Trust 2.3p, Londonmetric Property 1.9p, National Express 4.3p, Personal Assets Trust 140p, Stagecoach 8.1p, Ultra Electronics 14.6p, Wood Group (John) 8.7p
UK Economic Announcements
00:01 GfK Consumer Confidence & Lloyds Business Barometer
Intl Economic Announcements
00:50 Industrial Production (JP)
02:00 Manufacturing & Non-Manufacturing PMI (CN)
08:55 Unemployment (DE)
10:00 CPI & Unemployment (EZ)
12:30 Challenger Job Cuts (US)
13.30 Personal Consumption Inflation (US)
13.30 Weekly Jobless Claims (US)
14:45 Chicago PMI (US)
15:00 Pending Home Sales (US)
Friday 1 September
EU Results/Updates: Gemalto
Intl Economic Announcements
02:45 Caixin Manufacturing PMI (CN)
8:45-9am Manufacturing PMI (European; various)
13:30 US Jobs Report (incl. Non-Farm Payrolls) (US)
14:45 Manufacturing PMI (US)
15:00 ISM Manufacturing & Employment, Uni. of Michigan Confidence (US)
15:00 Construction Spending (US)
18:00 Baker Hughes Rig Count (US)