Gome annualshareholder meeting 30 -Nestle webcast 29 set to reiterate its guidance for 2009ahead of half year results in
Gome annualshareholder meeting (30) -Nestle webcast (29) set to reiterate its guidance for 2009ahead of half year results in August -Constellation Brands Q1 results (1) -General Mills Q4 results (1) AUTOS/AEROSPACE -U.S major automakers report June sales (1) After plungingto near 30-year lows, U.S. TMT -Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs expected to return to workat the end of June, after a near six-month medical leave and aliver transplant operation. -Cisco Chief Executive John Chambers/other executivesoutline company’s ambitions in new technologies and global plansat a conference (30) -EMC tender offer for Data Domain expires (29). -Iraq launches oil bid round (29-30) -Australian leg of Rio Tinto’s $15.2 billion rights offercloses (1) -Suzlon world’s fifth-largest wind-turbine maker to announceMarch quarter earnings over the weekend, and COO Sumant Sinhadue to speak to media Monday (29). Mainissue now is if Xstrata will offer a premium or go hostile.speech by Xstrata CEO Mick Davis (29) see deals above. Bidders reportedly beennarrowed to 3 – T&D Holdings (insurer), Sumitomo Trust (trustbank) and Bank of New York Mellon Decision due in next fewweeks. -Bharti-MTN merger – Halfway through the period of exclusivetalks, there could start to be some movement on the deal.
RESOURCES -Shell CEO handover (1) -Xstrata/Anglo merger saga due to stay on the boil. Speech by Xstrata CEO Mick Davis atLondon meet of Melbourne Mining Club (29) -Nikko Asset sale. Citigroup has put Nikko Asset on theblock, aiming to raise more than $1 billion Nikko Asset isJapan’s third-largest fund manager. -News conference by the CEO of state-run Export-Import Bankof Korea (1), the country’s top trade financing bank. -Korea Institutional Investment Forum (30) focus on twoattendees: the National Pension Service, the world’s No 4pension fund, and sovereign wealth fund Korea Investment Corp,in which the government is set to pump an additional $3 billionto enable it to resume overseas investment.
-Northern Rock — European Commission report due on whetherstate aid is giving lender an advantage (Date TBC) -H&R Block Inc fiscal fourth-quarter results after marketclose(29) Crucial quarter for the tax advisor encompassing mostof the main U.S tax filing season. -SEC commissioners to consider making TARP banks include anadvisory shareholder vote on executive pay, and more disclosuresabout exec pay (1). govt to file position on secretaccounts lawsuit (30) SCHEDULED EVENTS IN THE WEEK ENDING JULY 3 (Dates inparenthesis) FINANCIAL -Bernard Madoff sentencing on 11 criminal counts of bilkinginvestors in Wall Street’s biggest fraud, U.S. District Court,Manhattan.(29) -Shares in VisaNet, the Brazilian affiliate of credit cardnetwork Visa Inc (V.N) begin trading after the largest IPO inBrazilian history (29) -British Bankers’ Association annual conference. Strong listof speakers this year, including Chairmen/CEOs of HSBC, StandardChartered, Santander UK operations; chairman of FSA; Bank ofEngland MPC member Tucker; and EU Competition Commissioner(30) -AIG annual meeting in New York, gives shareholders thefirst chance to publicly air their views about what has happenedsince the federal bailout of what was once the world’s largestinsurer(30) -UK Treasury white paper on banking regulation due out (DateTBC). For latest earnings estimates made by Toyo Keizai, pleasedouble click on 7773.TK1..