Russian elections and St Patrick’s Day celebrations

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On this yr of elections, consideration over the subsequent seven days will likely be held by the autocrats. My diary of occasions begins with the tip of the Nationwide Folks’s Congress in Beijing on Monday. However the spotlight (if it may be so known as) would be the Russian presidential election, working over a number of days on the finish of the week. Vladimir Putin is looking for a fifth time period in workplace. He’ll get it. Learn extra background on this week’s ballot from my colleague Courtney Weaver.

There will likely be different, extra democratic, polls within the US presidential election primaries this week as properly, however this sport is now all however determined as a repeat of the 2020 Biden-Trump contest. What this does permit me to do is to present one other plug to my colleague Steff Chávez’s glorious US Election Countdown e-newsletter, delivered to your inbox each Tuesday and Thursday. Click on right here to enroll. And if you need extra beamed to your digital gadget, subscribe to the US election channel on WhatsApp.

Elsewhere this week, the group of 56 Commonwealth international locations will get their annual second within the solar — or maybe rain, on condition that the gathering is in London within the spring — with a service in Westminster Abbey on Monday, resulting from be attended by Queen Camilla and William, Prince of Wales.

The financial reviews this week embody gross home product updates from Japan and the UK, then a run of inflation figures from the US, India and several other European nations. Opec and IEA additionally publish their month-to-month oil trade reviews.

We’re on the tail-end of the present earnings season. This week’s themes are German carmakers (Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche), on-line disrupters (Deliveroo, Moonpig and HelloFresh), British retail darling of the center lessons John Lewis and plastic brick behemoth Lego.

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St Patrick’s Day celebrations will ring out all over the world subsequent Sunday, in addition to within the days main as much as the feast day of Eire’s patron saint. Time to faucet into your Irish roots, which in fact all people can discover if they fight arduous sufficient, even when born and raised in Tokyo. Nonetheless, you rejoice it, have a superb week.

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Key financial and firm reviews

Here’s a extra full checklist of what to anticipate by way of firm reviews and financial knowledge this week.

Monday

• Deadline for UK regulators the Competitors and Markets Authority and Ofcom to report again to the federal government’s media secretary Lucy Frazer concerning the anticipated acquisition of Telegraph Media Group by RedBird IMI

• Japan: revised This fall GDP figures (AM native time)

• UK: annual assessment of the “purchasing basket” of products and providers utilized by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics to measure shopper value inflation indices. Additionally, Recruitment & Employment Confederation-KPMG month-to-month jobs report

• Indonesia: Hindu Saka New 12 months vacation. Monetary markets closed till Wednesday

• Outcomes: Oracle Q3

Tuesday

• Opec month-to-month report

• Brazil: February IPCA inflation fee knowledge

• EU: Financial and Monetary Affairs Council (Ecofin) assembly of all EU finance ministers in Brussels

• Germany: February shopper value index (CPI) and harmonised index of shopper costs (HICP) inflation fee knowledge

• India: February CPI inflation fee knowledge

• UK: March labour market statistics. Additionally, Monetary Coverage Committee quarterly assembly, whose members embody Financial institution of England governor Andrew Bailey

• US: February CPI inflation fee knowledge

• Outcomes: Costain FY, Generali FY, Hill & Smith FY, Lego FY, Manchester United Q2, Persimmon FY, Porsche FY, TP ICAP FY

Wednesday

• FT Local weather Capital Stay occasion

• Russia: February CPI inflation fee knowledge

• UK: January GDP estimate

• Outcomes: Adidas FY, Balfour Beatty FY, Greenback Tree This fall, Eni FY, Eon FY, F&C Funding Belief FY, Ferrexpo FY, Geberit FY, The Gymnasium Group FY, Inditex FY, Metro Financial institution FY, Volkswagen FY

Thursday

• Former star UBS and Citigroup dealer Tom Hayes, the primary particular person jailed over the Libor fee scandal, will problem his conviction in London’s Courtroom of Enchantment after an almost decade-long battle to clear his title

• IEA Oil Market Report

• Spain: February CPI inflation fee knowledge

• UK: Rics Residential Market Survey. UK Finance additionally publishes its quarterly Enterprise Finance Overview for This fall

• US: February retail gross sales figures and February producer value index (PPI) inflation fee knowledge launched

• Outcomes: Adobe Q1, Bridgepoint FY, Deliveroo FY, Deutsche Financial institution FY, Greenback Common This fall, Foxconn This fall, IG Group Q3 buying and selling replace, John Lewis Partnership FY, Moonpig buying and selling replace, Munich Re FY, OSB Group FY, RWE FY, Savills FY, Vistry Group FY

Friday

• European Central Financial institution chief economist Philip Lane offers the visitor lecture at Imperial Faculty Enterprise Faculty in London

• France: February CPI and HICP inflation fee knowledge

• Italy: February HICP inflation fee knowledge

• Hungary: 1848 Revolution Day. Monetary markets closed

• Poland: February CPI inflation fee knowledge

• UK: Financial institution of England/Ipsos February Inflation Attitudes Survey and month-to-month insolvency figures

• US: College of Michigan shopper sentiment survey. Additionally, February industrial manufacturing figures

• Outcomes: Berkeley Group buying and selling replace, HelloFresh FY, Mercedes-Benz FY, Volution Group HY, Zurich Insurance coverage Group FY

World occasions

Lastly, here’s a rundown of different occasions and milestones this week.

Monday

• China: Nationwide Folks’s Congress annual session for the highest legislature concludes in Beijing

• France: ninth OECD Funding Treaty Convention, titled Supporting the worldwide power transition, in Paris and on-line. Opening remarks from Yoshiki Takeuchi, OECD deputy secretary-general

• UK: Commonwealth Day memorial service at Westminster Abbey, involving the 56 member international locations and members of the British royal household within the annual celebration of the worldwide community

• US: President Joe Biden submits his funds proposals to Congress for the fiscal yr 2025

Tuesday

• Mexico: Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia arrive for a three-day state go to on the invitation of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

• UK: fortieth anniversary of Arthur Scargill, then president of the Nationwide Union of Mineworkers, saying the beginning of a nationwide miners’ strike

• US: presidential major elections held in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington state, and a presidential caucus held by the Hawaii Republican social gathering

Wednesday

Thursday

• Italy: G7 Ministerial assembly on Business, Tech and Digital begins in Verona and Trento, working via Friday.

• Belgium: Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg holds a press convention to current his annual report for 2023

• UK: Welsh Labour management poll closes, with the successful candidate introduced on Saturday

Friday

• Russia: presidential election begins, with voting persevering with till Sunday

• UK: Cheltenham Gold Cup, the spotlight of the four-day Cheltenham Pageant horse race assembly. Additionally, the Liberal Democrat Spring Convention opens in York

Saturday

Sunday

• Eire: St Patrick’s Day, celebrating the patron saint of Eire, historically with parades all through the nation. Different celebrations all over the world