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Week Ahead: Recruiters, house builders, AB Foods

Date: Friday 06 Jul 2012

Week Ahead: Recruiters, house builders, AB Foods

Next week sees two big recruitment agencies, Michael Page and Hays, update the market, and if the Thursday's report from smaller rival Robert Walters is anything to go by, the news may not be good.

Better news is expected from house builders Bovis and Galliford Try if recent trading statements from sector peers Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey are any sort of guide.

Associated British Foods, which on Friday announced the acquisition of the Elephant Atta ethnic flour brand from Premier Foods, updates the market on Thursday. Attention will probably be on the group's Primark clothing chain, as usual, but the Elephant Atta purchase is a useful reminder that there is more to the company than Primark.

Panmure Gordon expects the tone of the trading update to be similar to the previous report with "strong earnings growth expected to be delivered for the year to September, driven by particularly impress growth in the Sugar division."

Monday July 09

INTERIMS
RM

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Renew Holdings

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (GER) (07:00)
Consumer Credit (US) (20:00)
Current Account (GER) (07:00)
Factory Orders (GER) (11:00)
Retail Price Index (GER) (07:00)

Q2
Michael Page International

ANNUAL REPORT
Cropper (James), Optare

EGMS
Equatorial Palm Oil

AGMS
Asia Ceramics Holding, GB Group, Zhaikmunai LP GDR (Reg S)

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bovis Homes Group, XP Power Ltd. (DI)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Amiad Water Systems Ltd, Anglo-Eastern Plantations, Evraz

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Tongaat-Hulett Ltd.

Tuesday July 10

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
XP Power Ltd. (DI)

FINALS
Accsys Technologies

AGMS
3i Infrastructure, Big Yellow Group, Intermediate Capital Group, Marks & Spencer Group, Young & Co's Brewery 'A' Shares

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
ASOS, Interserve, SIG

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
RICS Housing Market Survey (09:30)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Great Portland Estates

Wednesday July 11

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Aer Lingus Group, Chemring Group, CQS Rig Finance Fund Ltd., Dewhurst, Domino Printing Sciences, Dunedin Smaller Companies Inv Trust, Safestore Holdings, Sinclair (William) Holdings, Zytronic

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Merchants Trust, Middlefield Canadian Income PCC, Schroder Income Growth Fund

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (US) (13:30)
Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00)
Crude Oil Inventories (US) (15:30)
FOMC Interest Rate Minutes (US) (19:00)
MBA Mortgage Applications (US) (12:00)
Wholesales Inventories (US) (15:00)

GMS
Creon Resources

FINALS
Picton Property Income Ltd

IMSS
ICAP

AGMS
BT Group, ICAP, London & Stamford Property , Mitie Group, Ortus VCT, Rugby Estates, Sainsbury (J), UK Mail Group

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Galliford Try, Hays, Wetherspoon (J.D.)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Ashley (Laura) Holding

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
British Smaller Companies VCT, Cropper (James), E2V Technologies, Establishment Inv Trust, FirstGroup, GB Group, Hyder Consulting, Lindsell Train Inv Trust, Monks Inv Trust, Moss Bros Group, NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund Ltd GBP, NB Global Floating Rate Income Fund Ltd USD, Octopus Apollo VCT 4 , Sepura, Ventus 2 VCT, Ventus 2 VCT 'C' Shares, Ventus VCT, Ventus VCT 'C' Shares, VP, Walker Greenbank, Workspace Group

Thursday July 12

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bloomberg Consumer Confidence (US) (14:45)
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Import and Export Price Indexes (US) (13:30)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)
Treasury Budget Statement (US) (19:00)

FINALS
Heath (Samuel) & Sons, Weare 2020

IMSS
Associated British Foods

EGMS
Diamond Circle Capital

AGMS
Ablon Group Ltd., Angel Biotechnology Holdings, ASOS, Aveva Group, Biotech Growth Trust (The), Burberry Group, Great Eastern Energy Corp Ltd. GDR, Green Dragon Gas Ltd. (DI), Greka Drilling Ltd (DI), Maven Income & Growth VCT, Nature Group, NB Distressed Debt Investment Fund Ltd., NewRiver Retail Ltd. (Reg S), Octopus AIM VCT, Palace Capital , Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Trust, Public Power GDR SA (Reg S), Renold, SKIL Ports & Logistics Ltd., Taliesin Property Fund Ltd., Telford Homes

TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Computacenter, Premier Oil

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Alliance Pharma, Tarsus Group, Young & Co's Brewery 'A' Shares, Young & Co's Brewery (Non-Voting), Zhejiang Expressway Co 'H' Shares

Friday July 13

INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Britvic, Scottish Inv Trust, Topps Tiles, United Drug

QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE
Africa Opportunity Fund Ltd., Schlumberger Ltd., Yamana Gold Inc.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Producer Price Index (US) (13:30)
U. of Michigan Confidence (Prelim) (US) (15:00)

IMSS
Experian

AGMS
British Land Co, Capital Gearing Trust, Electrocomponents, Insetco, Invensys, Invesco Income Growth Trust, Lombard Risk Management, Saltus European Debt Strategies Ltd., Value and Income Trust

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
3i Infrastructure, C&C Group, Chamberlin, Harvey Nash Group, IFG Group, Intermediate Capital Group, Investment Company, London & Stamford Property , Marks & Spencer Group, NewRiver Retail Ltd. (Reg S), Northern 3 VCT, Northern Investors Co, Sainsbury (J), Tribal Group, Whitbread

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