Week ahead: Amec, Kazkahmys, JKX Oil & Gas, Savills, Booker Group, Mothercare, Lamprell, Afren

The FTSE 100 is currently projected to open flat on Monday afe5tr rising 1% this week. The next week will be shortened by the Good Friday holiday on Friday, when key US employment data is due. This week will also see a number of manufacturing and business activity updates in both the UK and the US  including Chicago PMI (Purchasing Managers Index), which is due out in the US on Wednesday.
On Monday, oil and gas producer and explorer Afren (LSE: AFR), peer Dana Petroleum (LSE: DNX) and oil and gas engineer Lamprell (LSE: LAM) will release their final results.
Human tissue research company Asterand (LSE: ATD), oil and gas producer JKX Oil & Gas (LSE: JKX) and copper miner Kazakhmys (LSE: KAZ) will report on their finals on Tuesday, while defence contractor Cobham (LSE: COB) will release its annual report.
Oil and gas engineering firm Amec (LSE: AMEC), construction services company Carillion (LSE: CLLN) and commodity asset development company Mercator Gold (AIM: MCR) will release their annual reports on Wednesday, while caterer Compass Group (LSE: CPG), dairy products company Dairy Crest Group (LSE: DCG), transport company FirstGroup (LSE: FGP) and agri-processor Tate & Lyle (LSE: TATE) will release trading announcements.
On Thursday, retailer Mothercare (LSE: MTC), wholesale operator Booker Group (LSE: BOK) and engineering company IMI (LSE: IMI) will update the markets on their trading, while IMI, IT consultancy Logica (LSE: LOG) and property company Savills (LSE: SVS) will release annual reports. No corporate or economic data is due out in the UK on Friday, which will be a bank holiday.
Investors will be looking to US personal spending and income updates on Monday, US and EU consumer confidence data on Tuesday, Chicago PMI Index and US factory orders on Wednesday, ISM manufacturing in the US and PMI manufacturing data in the EU and Germany on Thursday and Friday’s key US non-farm payrolls update along with unemployment rate and producer price index.
Next week’s domestic data will include balance of payments, current account and GDP quarterly national accounts figures on Tuesday and PMI manufacturing update on Thursday.
Asof Sunday afternoon, the FTSE 100, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 index are projected to open flat on Monday.

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