Thursday preview: UK GDP, Mondi in focus
By Alexander Bueso
Date: Wednesday 09 Oct 2019
(Sharecast News) - The focus on Thursday will be on a raft of UK economic data, including a reading on gross domestic product and industrial production in August.
Consensus is expecting UK activity to have flatlined in month-on-month terms following the previous month's bounce, but Barclays Research believes a dip in services output, alongside a downdraft in the construction, will drag GDP down by 0.1%.
Against that backdrop, traders will be closely monitoring their screens for any fresh headlines on the first of two days of high-level US-China trade talks in Washington.
Stateside meanwhile, consumer price data for September is expected to show a rise in the year-on-year rate of increase in US consumer prices from a pace of 1.7% in August to 1.9% for last month, alongside so-called core inflation running at 2.4%.
In parallel, across the Channel, the minutes of the European Central Bank's policy meeting in September may provide further colour on what appears to have been an unusually - for the ECB's standards - policy debate when the Governing Council last met.
On the corporate side of things, UBS's Mikael Doepel expects Mondi to post third quarter underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation of €393.0m and guide towards "muted" demand and "some further pressure" on corrugated box and uncoated fine paper prices heading into the fourth quarter.
Regarding the stock's roughly 3% dip year-to-date and underperformance versus peers, Doepel attributed that to the higher earnings risks and valuation relative to peers.
To take note of, the paper and packaging outfit's management team had already guided towards softer prices and demand for the back half of 2019.
Thursday 10 October
INTERIMS
Brown (N.) Group, Morses Club
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Forterra, Macfarlane Group, Restaurant Group, Zotefoams
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INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (GER) (07:00)
Consumer Price Index (US) (13:30)
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Current Account (GER) (07:00)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)
SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Barratt Developments, Centaur Media, RDL Realisation
AGMS
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UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Balance of Trade (09:30)
Gross Domestic Product (09:30)
Index of Services (09:30)
Industrial Production (09:30)
Manufacturing Production (09:30)
RICS Housing Market Survey (00:01)
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