Tuesday sees plumbers' merchant Wolseley reporting its full-year results, where the company is still likely to be enjoying the benefits of a growing US economy.
“Strength in the US dollar is likely to provide the numbers with a favourable tailwind, whilst further ongoing bolt-on acquisitions could be announced,” Hargreaves Lansdown reckons.
Group revenue is forecast to edge around 2% higher to £13.36 billion, while trading profit is expected to have grown by over 13% to £865 million, the broker notes.
Supermarket chain Sainsbury reports on Wednesday and few people are expecting an upbeat statement, though at least, according to the recent report from market research group Kantar, the chain was alone among the big four to not lose market share to both ALDI and Lidl recently.
On the economic front, the big number is US non-farm payrolls on Friday.
“Along with August, September’s figures have the tendency to be under-reported and so we are looking for another sub-par number of +200k, albeit perhaps with an upward revision to last month’s first estimate of +173k,” said investment house Investec.
“Unemployment though, is likely to continue to come down, we think to 5.0%,” it added.
Significant announcements expected
Monday
Final: Filtronic (LON:FTC) , Gleeson (M J) Group (LON:GLE)
Interim: Camco Clean Energy (LON:CCE), CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings (LON:CFHL), Flowgroup (LON:FLOW), Miton Group (LON:MGR), Pennon International Group (LON:PEN)
Economic: US pending home sales, UK Nationwide house prices
Tuesday
Final: Earthport (LON:EPO), James Halstead (LON:JHD), Netcall (LON:NET), Vernalis (LON:VER), Wolseley (LON:WOS)
Interim: Boohoo.com (LON:BOO) , e-Therapeutics (LON:ETX), Ergomed (LON:ERGO), Globo (LON:GBO), Outsourcery (LON:OUT), Personal Group Holdings (LON:PGH), Toumaz Holdings Ltd (LON:TMZ), Venture Life Group (LON:VLG)
Economic: US S&P Case Shiller house price survey, US consumer confidence. EU Economic confidence
Wednesday
Interim: Northbridge Industrial Services (LON:NBI), Saga (LON:SAGA), ServicePower Technologies (LON:SVR)
Trading statement: Compass Group (LON:CPG), QinetiQ Group (LON:QQ.), Sainsbury (J) (LON:SBRY), Topps Tiles (LON:TPT)
Economic: UK Gross domestic product, UK GFK consumer confidence, US ADP employment report, EU unemployment rate, EU consumer prices
Thursday
Trading statement: FirstGroup (LON:FGP)
Economic: UK CIPS manufacturing survey, US ISM manufacturing survey, US weekly jobless claims, US Markit manufacturing survey, EU Markit manufacturing survey
Friday
Economic: US non-farm payrolls, US unemployment rate, EU producer prices