With only two more sleeps left until the stock market closes for Christmas, though with only a sparse corporate calendar there’ll be very few opportunities to take a portfolio off the naughty list and make them nice.
Indeed, a glance at the calendar shows only AGMs and small clutch of economic releases.
Of course the week is not yet over, Christmas is not yet here, so investors may still find some unscheduled items in their newswires.
Thursday December 21:
AGMs: Karelian Diamond Resources Plc (LON:KDR), Plexus Holdings PLC (LON:POS), Trinity Capital PLC (LON:TRC), Transense Technologies PLC (LON:TRT)
Ex-dividends: To click 0.5 points off FTSE 100 - Burberry Group PLC (LON:BURB), United Utilities PLC (LON:UU)
Economic data: UK public sector finances; US final Q3 GDP; US weekly jobless claims; Philly Fed business outlook