Scheduled big company news is a little thin on ground tomorrow, so it gives some of the market’s second division a chance to shine.
John Menzies PLC (LSE:MNZS) can depart on a high note given the agreed 608p per share bid for the company from Kuwaiti aviation services provider Agility Public Warehousing.
But given the chaos at airports currently, being out of the limelight is probably no bad thing.
The second of three rail strikes also gets underway, so City streets are likely to be empty, though there are ex-dividends at Experian, British Land and United Utilities, which are expected to knock around 4.7 points from FTSE 100.
Otherwise, it is left to the latest US bank stress test results and other US economic data to provide some headlines,
Thursday 23 June
Interims: Oxford Metrics (AIM:OMG) PLC
Finals: Alpha Financial Markets Consulting PLC (AIM:AFM), Deepverge PLC (AIM:DVRG), First Property Group PLC (AIM:FPO), Manolete Partners PLC (AIM:MANO), Marlowe, Naked Wines, Volex PLC (AIM:VLX), XPS Pensions Group PLC (LSE:XPS)
AGMs: Anglo Asian Mining PLC (AIM:AAZ, OTC:AGXKF), Avacta Group PLC (AIM:AVCT), Bluejay Mining PLC, Braime Group PLC, Card Factory (LSE:CARD) PLC, Cordiant Digital Infrastructure Limited, GENinCode PLC (AIM:GENI), Getech Group PLC (AIM:GTC), Life Settlement Assets PLC, Longboat Energy PLC (AIM:LBE), Menzies (John) PLC, Next Fifteen Communications Group PLC (AIM:NFC), Norman Broadbent PLC (AIM:NBB), Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (LSE:ONT), RBG Holdings PLC (AIM:RBGP), Tandem Group PLC (AIM:TND), Union Jack Oil PLC (AIM:UJO), Zinnwald Lithium PLC (LSE:znwd)
Economic announcements: Public Sector Net Borrowing (UK), Initial Jobless Claims (US), Continuing Claims (US), Current Account (US)