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Thursday preview: US inflation, Geopolitics in the spotlight

(Sharecast News) - Thursday's session will bring with it more data on the inflation picture Stateside. At 1330 BST, the Department of Labor is scheduled to publish

US producer price data for the month of January.

Investors will be especially keen to try and gauge what inflation pressures might be in the pipeline following the hotter-than-expected US consumer price data released the day before.

Also due out at the same time are the latest weekly US unemployment figures.

In the background, the market spotlight is likely to be on everything having to do with Washington's announcement, the night before, that it was set to launch talks with Moscow aimed at reaching a peace in Ukraine.

Earlier, at 0700 BST the Office for National Statistics would publish GDP data covering the month of December.

Consensus was for a reading of 0.1% month-on-month.

Overnight, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors was due to release its Housing Price Balance for January.

The latest German CPI data were due out before the European open.

Thursday 13 February

INTERIMS

Renishaw

INTERIM EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Knights Group Holdings , Rank Group

QUARTERLY EX-DIVIDEND DATE

ICG Enterprise Trust, NextEnergy Solar Fund Limited Red, Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust , Pershing Square Holdings Ltd NPV, Pershing Square Holdings Ltd NPV (USD), The Renewables Infrastructure Group Limited

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Consumer Price Index (GER) (07:00)

Consumer Price Index (US) (13:30)

Continuing Claims (US) (13:30)

Industrial Production (EU) (10:00)

Initial Jobless Claims (US) (13:30)

Q4

Unilever

FINALS

Barclays, British American Tobacco, Coca-Cola HBC AG (CDI), Relx plc, Unilever

AGMS

Cerillion , GCP Infrastructure Investments Ltd, Polar Capital Global Healthcare Trust

UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Balance of trade (07:00)

Gross Domestic Product (07:00)

Index of Services (07:00)

Industrial Production (07:00)

Manufacturing Production (07:00)

RICS Housing Market Survey (00:01)

FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE

Nokia OYJ

FINAL EX-DIVIDEND DATE

Baronsmead Second Venture Trust, Baronsmead Venture Trust, Coventry 12 1/8% Perm Int Bearing Shs #1000, JPMorgan Emerging Europe, Middle East & Africa Securities, Ramsdens Holdings

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