The Week Ahead: Tesco, M&S and the retail sector
Decorations are still up, but retailers already have the Christmas stats. Here are the ones to watch.
3rd January 2020 13:02
by Richard Hunter from interactive investor
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The decorations are still up, but retailers already know how they did over Christmas. Find out who to watch here.
With the Christmas shopping period done and dusted, and the New Year sales in full swing, retailers now begin to fess up to how busy they were over the festive period.
Share prices have been heading higher for most of the food and clothes retail chains. Whether they continue to do so will depend very much on these numbers and outlooks for 2020.
Monday 6 January 2020
Nothing in the corporate diary
Tuesday 7 January
Trading Statements
Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets, C4x Discovery Holdings
Wednesday 8 January
Trading statements
Greggs, Sainsbury’s, Topps Tiles
Thursday 9 January
Stocks that begin trading without rights to the latest dividend include WH Smith (LSE:SMWH), QinetiQ (LSE:QQ.), AVEVA Group (LSE:AVV) and AJ Bell (LSE:AJB).
Trading statements
Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Dunelm, Card Factory
Friday 10 January
US non-farm payrolls data for December will likely grab headlines when the numbers are published at lunchtime.
Trading statements
JD Sports, B&M
AGM/EGM
Plutus Powergen
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