Thursday preview: ECB, US data in focus
By Alexander Bueso
Date: Wednesday 16 Apr 2025
(Sharecast News) - All eyes at the end of the week will be on the European Central Bank.
Rate-setters in Frankfurt are widely expected to announce a 25 basis point reduction in short-term official interest rates, with the deposit rate seen falling to 2.25%.
Also due out in the euro area, at 0600 GMT, are German producer price data for the month of March.
Readings on monthly US housing starts and permits, weekly jobless claims and factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region will follow at 1230 GMT.
Thursday 17 April
INTERIMS
Rc Fornax
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Craneware, Thorpe (F.W.)
INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Miton UK Microcap Trust, Nippon Active Value Fund
QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE
JpMorgan China Growth & Income , M Winkworth, TwentyFour Select Monthly Income Fund Limited
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Building Permits (US) (13:30)
Business Inventories (US) (00:00)
Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)
Housing Starts (US) (13:30)
Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)
Philadelphia Fed Index (US) (13:30)
Producer Price Index (GER) (07:00)
FINALS
Integrated Diagnostics Holdings, Sainsbury (J)
SPECIAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
Foresight VCT, Fresnillo, Sabre Insurance Group
EGMS
SDIC Power Holdings Co.,Ltd GDR (Reg S)
AGMS
BP
TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS
Rentokil Initial
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
Conduit Holdings Limited Com Shs (DI), IDOX, Nexus Infrastructure , Rio Tinto
FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE
AIREA, Antofagasta, Arbuthnot Banking Group, BAE Systems, Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, Capital Limited (DI), Convatec Group , Costain Group, Dowlais Group, Fresnillo, Grafton Group Ut (CDI), JPMorgan American Inv Trust, Jupiter Fund Management , London Stock Exchange Group, Merchants Trust, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Sabre Insurance Group, STV Group, Travis Perkins, Unite Group, Weir Group
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