TUESDAY PWC/Amarach property survey briefing, Dublin WHSmith reports on Christmas trading Results: Games Workshop, AMD, Amex, Avaya, Bank of America, Johnson & Johnson, Seagate, Sun Microsystems, Wachovia, Xerox, Yahoo

WEDNESDAY New vehicle licences (Dec) UK: GDP Q4 Results: Abbott Laboratories, Allegheny Technologies, Ashland, Computer Associates, Cingular Wireless, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Ebay, ExpressJet Holdings, First Data, Hershey, McDonald's, NetFlix, Piper jaffrey, Qualcomm, Smur"t-Stone Container, Symantec, Teradyne

THURSDAY Producer price index (Dec) US: Continuing jobless claims; existing home sales (Dec) Results: Amgen, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardinal Health, Ceva, Dow Jones, Dow Chemical, GATX, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, NCR, Northrop Grumman, Sybase

FRIDAY Trade balance (Nov) Results: Caterpillar, Chevron, Halliburton, Honeywell, Openwave, Reader's Digest, Tellabs