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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 at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 13 January
Trading statement: XP Power
Economics: Trade balance, Industrial production, Manufacturing production, Construction output, Index of services, GDP
Companies paying dividends: 3i Infrastructure (4.6p), Crystal Amber Fund (2.5p)
Tuesday 14 January
Interim: Games Workshop, Gateley
Trading statements: Boohoo, PageGroup, Taylor Wimpey
Company paying dividend: Intermediate Capital (15p)
Wednesday 15 January
Interim: Knights
Trading statements: Diploma, Persimmon, Ten Entertainment, Tullow Oil
EGM: RM2 International
AGM: Diploma
Economics: Consumer prices, Retail prices, Production prices, House prices
Companies paying dividends: Circle Property (3.3p), Fidelity Special Values (special – 1.5p), Fidelity Special Values (3.65p), Mind Gym (0.9p), National Grid (16.57p), Royal Mail (7.5p), Tritax EuroBox (0.847p)
Thursday 16 January
Interim: TheWorks.co.uk
Trading statements: Genel Energy, Halfords, Hays, John Wood, Whitbread
AGM: Cardiff Property
Economics: House price index, Bank of England credit conditions
Company paying dividend: Hydro Hotel (9p)
Friday 17 January
Trading statements: Gym Group
AGMs: Character, Futura Medical, Ixico, Kazera Global
Economics: Retail sales
Companies paying dividends: Babcock International (7.2p), Cambria Automobiles (0.85p), Charles Stanley (2.85p), Halfords (6.18p), IG Design (3p), JPM Euro Small Cos (1.2p), Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income Trust (2.4p), Morses Club (2.6p), Northamber (0.3p), Sirius Real Estate (1.51p), Vertu Motors (0.6p), Vp (8.45p)
Companies going ex-dividend on 16 January
| Company | Dividend (p) | Pay date |
| Ashtead ord 10p | 7.15 | 5/02/20 |
| Character ord 5p | 13 | 31/01/20 |
| Compass ord 10 5/8p | 26.9 | 24/02/20 |
| Connect ord 5p | 1 | 13/02/20 |
| Dewhurst ‘A’ non voting ord 10p | 9.25 | 26/02/20 |
| Dewhurst ord 10p | 9.25 | 26/02/20 |
| Fletcher King ord 10p | 1 | 14/02/20 |
| Future ord 1p | 1 | 14/02/20 |
| Ramsdens | 2.7 | 20/02/20 |
| Scottish Inv Trust ord 25p | 6.9 | 14/02/20 |
| Shaftesbury ord 25p | 9 | 14/02/20 |
| SSE ord 50p | 24 | 13/03/20 |
| Titon ord 10p | 3 | 21/02/20 |
| US Solar Fund GBP | 0.3875 | 7/02/20 |
The ex-dividend day 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 Thursday. The record date is usually one day after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
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The data in the table above is a small selection of what’s available on our website. Just go to www.investorschronicle.co.uk/shares and click on the dividend calendar box. You can download a full table of ex-dividend dates as an Excel spreadsheet. The dividend calendar is updated every Friday.
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