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Hiya and welcome to the working week.

And when you’re within the northern hemisphere, welcome to winter. The seasonal change has extra significance this 12 months, given the influence of the temperature drop with an ongoing power disaster and battle in Ukraine.

Russia’s assaults on Ukrainian energy provides will little question be excessive on the agenda for Nato international ministers, gathering in Bucharest. The battle will even little question be a key factor of Rishi Sunak’s speech on the annual Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London, historically a time for the UK prime minister to focus on his or her priorities for British international coverage — support for Ukraine can also be one of many few coverage areas that unites Tory MPs.

Elsewhere within the UK, there can be extra proof of the nation heading right into a second winter of discontent of industrial motion. The analogy with the widespread disruption of 1978-79 breaks down in a number of methods, however nonetheless the walkouts by Scottish ambulance drivers, and additional motion by college and Royal Mail workers, will seize headlines.

In search of some festive cheer? There are the annual tree lighting ceremonies in Washington and London. And the textual content message will flip 30 — however did we cope without it?

In private information, I’m about to take per week’s break — early December preparation for the festive season — so subsequent Sunday my colleague Steffie Banatvala can be manning the nice ship Week Forward. E-mail her with options at steffie.banatvala@ft.com or hit reply to the publication model of Week Forward.

Financial information

The information calendar is fuller than final week owing to the top of Thanksgiving, with the important thing updates from the US being a revision to the third-quarter GDP information on Wednesday and Friday’s labour market report. There will even be some necessary sentiment readings.

Firms

Because the festive season begins, the earnings season ends. Amid the skinny gruel of outcomes are easyJet, which has predicted bumper profitability on an uptick in winter air journey, and Marston’s, whose worth providing on beer has thus far helped it retain business regardless of the consumer-spending squeeze.

“Marston’s affords the second-lowest beer costs among the many quoted pub operators, which ought to assist footfall throughout the winter months,” Douglas Jack, an analyst at Peel Hunt, writes in a word.

Key financial and firm experiences

Here’s a extra full listing of what to anticipate when it comes to firm experiences and financial information this week.

Monday

• Cyber Monday, a date for on-line retailers — notably within the US — to supply post-Thanksgiving vacation offers

• EU, European Central Financial institution president Christine Lagarde speaks at a listening to earlier than the Committee on Financial and Financial Affairs of the European parliament in Brussels

• FT Crypto and Digital Belongings Summit. Premium subscribers can register for a complimentary digital go at: https://on.ft.com/3UYSkOZ

Tuesday

• EU, financial sentiment figures

• Germany, preliminary November shopper worth index (CPI) and harmonised index of shopper costs (HICP) inflation price information

• Japan, October unemployment and retail gross sales figures (8.30am native time)

• Spain, flash month-to-month CPI inflation price information

• Switzerland, Q3 GDP figures

• Taiwan, revised Q3 GDP figures

• US, November convention board shopper confidence information

• FT Global Banking summit begins in London. Audio system embrace Santander chair Ana Botin, HSBC chief govt Noel Quinn and financial secretary to the Treasury Andrew Griffith

• Outcomes: Amigo Holdings H1, easyJet FY, Intuit Q1, Marston’s FY, NetApp Q2, Shaftesbury FY, Topps Tiles FY, Smart H1

Wednesday

• China, November manufacturing and non-manufacturing buying managers’ index (PMI) information

• EU, month-to-month HICP inflation price figures

• European Central Financial institution governing counsel non-monetary policy meeting

• France, preliminary November HICP and CPI inflation price figures plus Q3 GDP information

• Germany, November unemployment price figures

• India, quarterly GDP figures

• Italy, preliminary November CPI inflation price figures

• Japan, month-to-month industrial manufacturing figures (8.50am native time)

• US, Federal Reserve points its Beige E book on present financial situations

• US, revised Q3 GDP figures

• Outcomes: Hornby H1, LendInvest H1, Mulberry H1, Salesforce Q3, SAS This fall

Thursday

• Brazil, Q3 GDP figures

• EU, October unemployment price

• India, S&P World manufacturing PMI information

• UK, Nationwide House Price Index

• Outcomes: Kroger Q3, Peel Hunt H1

Friday

• Canada, November unemployment figures

• Germany, October commerce stability information

• US, November labour market figures

• Outcomes: Thoughts Health club H1

World occasions

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

Monday

• Germany, assembly of G7 justice ministers in Berlin, the primary time that the justice ministers have met on this format. Germany holds the G7 presidency.

• UK, prime minister Rishi Sunak addresses the Lord Mayor’s Banquet in London. Historically, the speech focuses on British international affairs.

• UK, GMB Scotland’s members within the Scottish Ambulance Service start a 26-hour strike for an improved pay supply. A GMB strike poll of greater than 15,000 ambulance employees throughout 11 trusts in England and Wales closes tomorrow.

Tuesday

• Giving Tuesday, created to counter the consumerism of the US Thanksgiving vacation weekend simply gone

• Romania, Nato international ministers meet in Bucharest, with discussions prone to hinge on Russia’s warfare on Ukraine

Wednesday

• Japan, a Tokyo courtroom is predicted to rule on constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Japan is the one G7 nation the place same-sex marriage will not be allowed.

• UK, CWU members working at Royal Mail to stage a 48-hour strike, whereas greater than 70,000 members of the College and Faculty Union will stroll out at 150 campuses within the third of three one-day strikes over pay.

• UK, St Andrew’s day public vacation in Scotland

• US, Democrats within the Home of Representatives maintain an intraparty vote to find out whether or not New York’s Hakeem Jeffries will change speaker Nancy Pelosi and lead them for the subsequent two years within the minority.

• US, the Nationwide Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in President’s Park, Washington

• US, President Joe Biden hosts the White Home Tribal Nations Summit.

Thursday

• First day of the meteorological winter within the northern hemisphere

• France, opening date for registrations within the ticket draw for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

• India assumes the presidency of G20

• UK, American citizen Anne Sacoolas sentenced after she admitted inflicting the dying by careless driving of Harry Dunn exterior RAF Croughton in 2019.

• UK, annual lighting of the Norwegian Christmas Tree in London’s Trafalgar Sq.

Friday

Saturday

• UK, thirtieth anniversary of the primary quick message service (SMS) textual content being despatched over Vodafone’s cell community

• US, Prince William and Princess Catherine attend the Earthshot Prize ceremony in Boston as a part of their American royal tour

Sunday

• Austria, Opec oil ministers and their allies, referred to as Opec+, meet on the organisation’s headquarters in Vienna