London Report: Rate watchers to eye MPC minutes to see if dissent surfaces
THERE will be keen interest in the details of the latest set of MPC minutes, out on Wednesday. The main question will be: does the MPC remain unanimous in its stance, or was there some dissent for the first time against Mark Carney?
Today will see interim reports from Amlin, Bovis Homes Group, Clarkson and Polypipe Group.
Tomorrow, AFI Development, Cairn Energy, CRH, H&T Group, Menzies (John), NMC Health, Persimmon, TT Electronics and Wood Group (John) announce their interims.
The UK’s consumer price index, producer price index and retail price index will also be announced tomorrow.
On Wednesday, Frutarom Industries Ltd, Gem Diamonds Ltd. (DI), Glencore, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Hochschild Mining and UK Commercial Property Trust give interims. On Thursday, Cloudbuy, Costain Group, London Mining, New World Resources A Shares, Phoenix Group Holding, Premier Oil, Primary Health Properties and Sportech give interims.
On Friday, there will be interims from Aga Rangemaster Group and Mail.ru.