Monday December 14

End of British Airways (BA) ballot for strike action (earliest date for strike December 21)

Treasury Select Committee on Pre-Budget Report (PBR) - to be confirmed

Public Accounts - Bank recapitalisation and liquidity schemes - Oral Evidence Session, Sir Nick Macpherson, Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury

Japan: Industrial production - October final
EMU: Industrial production - October
UK: Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) house price balance - November (for Tuesday December 15)

Results:
Silence Therapeutics PLC - AGM
Ten Alps PLC - H1
Whitbread PLC - Trading

Tuesday December 15

Treasury Select Committee on Pre-Budget Report (PBR) - to be confirmed

Mortgage Lending, Arrears and Repossession statistics (provisional date)

France: Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - November
UK: CPI - November (inflation)
UK: Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) house prices - October
Germany: The ZEW index survey - December
US: Net long term TIC flows - October
US: Payment protection insurance (PPI) - November
US: Industrial production - November
US: Empire manufacturing - December
US: National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) housing index - December
Canada: Leading indicators - November
Japan: Tertiary industry index - October

Results:
Cadbury PLC - Trading (could include bid defence against Kraft)
Connaught PLC - AGM
F&C Global Smaller Companies PLC - H1
Go-Ahead Group (The) PLC - Trading
JPMorgan Chinese Investment Trust PLC - AGM
KPMG - Financial results
Renovo Group PLC - Preliminary
Scott Wilson Group PLC - H1
Worldspreads Group - Shareholders' meeting

Wednesday December 16

Treasury Select Committee on Pre-Budget Report (PBR) - to be confirmed

Japan: Machine tool orders - November final
Sweden: Riksbank rate announcement
Norway: Norgesbank rate announcement
Italy: Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - November
UK: Unemployment figures - October/November
UK: Average earnings - October
EMU: CPI - November
US: CPI - November
US: Housing starts - November
Canada: Manufacturing sales - October
US: Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) Rate announcement

Results:
Charteris PLC - AGM
Drax Group PLC - Trading
Fidelity Special Values PLC - AGM
Kesa Electricals PLC - H1
Kesa Electricals PLC - Analyst
Petrofac Ltd - Trading
Punch Taverns PLC - AGM
Punch Taverns PLC - Q1 Trading
Rensburg Sheppards PLC - AGM

Thursday December 17

Vote on Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's second term

Cadbury must announce bid defence against Kraft by tomorrow (Friday December 18)

Japan: Leading indicators - October final
UK: Retail sales November
UK: CBI Monthly Distributive Trades
US: Initial jobless claims (week to December 12)
US: Leading indicators - November
US: Philadelphia Fed December
Canada: International securities transactions - October
Canada: Consumer Prices Index (CPI) - November

Results:
ARRIVA PLC - Trading
British Assets Trust PLC - AGM
British Empire Securities & General Trust PLC - AGM
Chrysalis Group PLC - Preliminary
Irish Life & Permanent PLC - Shareholders' meeting
Senior PLC - Trading
Travis Perkins PLC - Trading
Wood Group (John) PLC - Trading

Friday December 18

Japan: Bank of Japan (BoJ) rate announcement
Germany: Payment protection insurance (PPI) - November
Germany: IFO business survey - December
France: Business confidence - October
UK: Public finances - November
UK: Bank of England (BoE) Capital issuance – November
UK: BoE Consolidated worldwide external claims of UK-owned banks – September 2009
UK: BoE Provisional estimates of broad money (M4) and credit (M4 lending) – November 2009
UK: BoE Trends in Lending – December 2009
EMU: Trade balance - October
Canada: Wholesale sales - October

Results:
Aggreko PLC - Trading
Altona Energy PLC - London AGM
Axis-Shield PLC - Trading
JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust PLC - AGM
Keystone Investment Trust PLC - AGM
Keller Group PLC - Trading
Sportingbet PLC - AGM
Victoria Oil & Gas PLC - AGM

Monday December 21

Earliest date for a possible strike by British Airways staff

Cairn Energy PLC - EGM

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