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Week Ahead 16-20 April

A summary of key company announcements expected in the coming week
April 11, 2012

Welcome to the week ahead, our summary of the forthcoming key company announcements. Companies are no longer obliged to notify the London Stock Exchange (LSE) of results and trading updates, so this list does not claim to be comprehensive. You can read company announcements on at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.

Monday 16 April

Finals: APR Energy, Specialist Energy Group

Trading statements: AMEC, Dragon Oil, Gem Diamonds

AGMs: Access Intelligence, Oak Holdings, Pace, Primary Health Properties, Sagentia

EGM: Metal-Tech

Economics: Rightmove house price data

Tuesday 17 April

Finals: Corac, Northbridge Industrial Services, UK Coal, Walker Greenbank

Trading statements: Burberry, International Personal Finance, Man Group, Marks & Spencer, Rio Tinto

AGMs: Perform Group, SDL

Economics: Consumer prices index, Retail prices index

Wednesday 18 April

Interim: Spirit Pub Company

Final: Tesco

Trading statements: BHP Billiton, Bunzl, Computacenter, Daily Mail & General Trust, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Fresnillo, GKN, Hochschild, Hunting, MoneySupermarket.com, Speedy Hire

AGMs: Bunzl, CLS Holdings, Dialight, Dragon Oil, Drax, Hunting, MoneySupermarket.com, Promethean World, Zenergy Power

Economics: Bank of England monetary policy committee minutes, Employment data

Thursday 19 April

Interims: Debenhams, WH Smith

Finals: International Public Partnerships, Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings

Trading statements: Anglo American, e2v technologies, Hammerson, Hargreaves Lansdown, International Power, Jupiter Fund Management, Lavendon, Persimmon, SABMiller

AGMs: African Barrick Gold, AMEC, Anglo American, Anglo Pacific, Devro, H&T Group, Hammerson, Ladbrokes, Lavendon Group, LSL Property Services, Management Consulting, Persimmon, Plant Health Care, Rio Tinto, SThree, Stadium Group, Sterling Energy

EGM: Ryannair Holdings

Friday 20 April

Final: Shaft Sinkers

Trading statements: African Barrick Gold, IMI, Record, Rotork, Spectris, William Hill

AGMs: Capital & Counties Properties, Mediwatch, Rotork, Spectris

Economics: Retail sales figures

Shares going ex-dividend on 18 April

CompanyDividend (p)Payment
AGA Ringmaster1.11 Jun
Aggreko13.5920 May
Albemarle & Bond320 May
BAE Systems11.31 Jun
BBA Aviation6.2525 May
Capita14.228 May
Clarke (T)218 May
Costain6.7525 May
Hikma Pharmaceutical4.624 May
International Personal Finance4.11 Jun
James Halstead518 May
Johnson Service0.6718 May
Kazakhmys 12.5715 May
Legal & General4.7423 May
McBride225 May
Microgen2.211 May
Molins2.7511 May
Norish Units1.0518 May
Office2Office7.818 May
Old Mutual3.57 Jun
Petrofac23.3918 May
Resolution13.4221 May
Secure Trust Bank4.218 May
Smith & Nephew6.8189 May
Spirax-Sarco Engineering34.218 May
Statpro1.8523 May
Taylor Wimpey0.3822 May
Tullow Oil824 May
Unite1.2521 May
Vitec12.511 May

The ex-dividend date is the first day on which it is no longer possible to buy the shares and qualify for the dividend. Ex-days are almost always a Wednesday. The record date is usually two days after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.