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 17 December
Trading statement: Aggreko
AGMs: Aeorema Communications, Churchill Mining, Physiomics
EGMs: Icon, London & Stamford Property, Victoria
Economics: Rightmove house price data
Tuesday 18 December
Interim: Park
Finals: Armour, HiWave Technologies
Trading statements: Keller, Petrofac
AGM: dotDigital
EGMs: Premier Foods, Quarto
Economics: Office for National Statistics house price data, Producer price index figures, Consumer price index figures, Retail price index figures
Wednesday 19 December
AGMs: Axa Property, Noble Investments, Sportingbet
EGMs: Cupid, Invensys
Economics: Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee minutes, Confederation of British Industry reported sales data
Thursday 20 December
Trading statements: Serco
AGMs: GCM Resources, Gemfields, Northamber
EGMs: Max Petroleum, Mothercare
Economics: Retail sales figures
Friday 21 December
Final: Jersey Electricity
Trading statement: Berendsen
AGMs: Berkeley Mineral Resources, Mining Investments Resources
EGMs: China Unicom, Metric Property Investments, Monitise, Skypharma
Economics: GfK consumer confidence survey, Public sector finances data, Third-quarter current account data, Final third-quarter GDP data, Index of services figures, Third-quarter total business investment data
Shares going ex-dividend on 19 Dec
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Albemarle & Bond | 9.75 | 30 Jan |
| BT | 3.00 | 4 Feb |
| Burberry | 8.00 | 25 Jan |
| Carr's Milling Industries | 14.5 | 19 Jan |
| Dart | 0.54 | 1 Feb |
| Greene King | 7.15 | 25 Jan |
| Halfords | 8.00 | 25 Jan |
| Henderson High Income Trust | 2.075 | 31 Jan |
| JPM Euro Small Cos | 6.00 | 16 Jan |
| Juridica Investments | 13.0 | 4 Jan |
| Omg | 0.35 | 1 Apr |
| Sportingbet.com | 1.10 | 17 Jan |
| United Utilities | 11.44 | 1 Feb |
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.
