Week Ahead 15-19 April

Monday 15 April

Final: waterlogic

Trading statement: Primary Health Properties

AGMs: Antisoma, Primary Health Properties, Tanfield

Economics: Rightmove house price data

Tuesday 16 April

Interims: Carrs Milling Industries, Utilitywise

Finals: MP Evans, Walker Greenbank

Trading statements: Michael Page International, Porvair, Rio Tinto

AGMs: Perform Group, Porvair, Telecity

Economics: Producer price index, Office for National Statistics - house price data, consumer price index, Retail price index

Wednesday 17 April

Interim: Smiths News

Finals: JD Sports Fashion, Tesco

Trading statements: BHP Billiton, Burberry, Bunzl, Falkland Island Holdings, Hargreaves Lansdown, Hochschild Mining, MoneySupermarket.com, Speedy Hire

AGMs: Bunzl, Carnival, CLS, Hunting, MoneySupermarket.com, RusPetro

Economics: Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee minutes, unemployment data, average earnings data

Supermarket Tesco (TSC) reports full-year figures on Wednesday and the group is widely expected to use these results to announce its departure form the US. Tesco's business there - Fresh & Easy - is loss-making and chief executive Philip Clarke has been under pressure to review the operation since he took the helm in March 2011. But an exit won't be cheap - while a write-down of about £1bn is anticipated, broker Shore Capital also expects the process to involve cash costs of around £250m. In fact, Tesco's overseas operations have been a drag on recent performance. With its Christmas trading update in January, for example, the group reported like-for-like sales growth (excluding petrol sales) of just 0.3 per cent - yet UK like-for-like sales rose 1.7 per cent, while international like-for-like sales dropped 2 per cent. Broker Charles Stanley expects full-year pre-tax profit of £3.22bn, down from £3.54bn in 2012, with EPS down 11 per cent at 31p.

Thursday 18 April

Interim: Debenhams

Finals: Circle, Integra

Trading statements: African Barrick Gold, Diageo, e2v technologies, Evraz, Ferrexpo, Fresnillo, GKN, Jupiter Fund Management, Persimmon, Rexam, SABMiller

AGMs: African Barrick Gold, Belvoir Lettings, Devro, H&T, Jupiter Fund Management, Lavendon, Management Consulting, Persimmon, Rexam, Rio Tinto, SThree

EGM: Persimmon

Economics: Retail sales figures

Few surprises are likely from Debenhams' (DEB) half-year figures on Thursday after the department store group released a fairly grim half-year trading update last month. While like-for-like sales did rise 3 per cent overall in the half, snowy weather meant underlying sales slumped 10 per cent between 14-27 January. That also hit profit margins as management attempted to shift unwanted stocks. Accordingly, first-half pre-tax profit is likely to be about £120m, which is below the City's previous expectations. Broker Numis Securities now expects pre-tax profit for the year to the end of August 2013 of £155.9m - a downgrade from the broker's previously expected £166m and a fall on last year’s £158.3m - giving EPS of 9.9p. However, the broker also expects a 3.6p a share dividend - meaning an attractive 4.6 per cent yield. What's more, with the shares rated on just eight times expected earnings, there's plenty of recovery potential.

Friday 19 April

Trading statements: Anglo American, Anglo Platinum, Filtronic, Record, Spectris, William Hill

AGMs: Anglo American, Breedon Aggregates, Spectris, Sterling Energy, Ubisense

Shares going ex-dividend on 17 April

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.