Financial results for supermarket giant Tesco and details of Bank of England policy appear set this week to move the London stock market, which crossed 5,400 points for the first time in more than four years.
On Friday, The London FTSE 100 index closed at 5,407.9 points, up 48.6 points or 0.9 percent from a week earlier.
Tesco, the leading British supermarket and the third biggest in the world behind Wal-Mart of the United States and Carrefour of France, is to publish half-year results on Tuesday, at a time of slowing consumer spending.
Tesco, which absorbs one pound for every eight spent by consumers in Britain, nonetheless saw sales rise by 14.6 percent in the third quarter of the 2005-2006 fiscal year.
In other company news, a report on activities for 2005 is due for release on Tuesday by BAA, which manages seven airports in Britain, including three in London. It might show an impact from the July suicide bombings in London.
The Scottish oil firm Cairn Energy will also announce its mid-term results. Cairn, which could be the target of an offer from ENI of Italy, has just returned to the FTSE 100 index.
The market was also awaiting on Wednesday publication of the minutes of the decision of the Bank of England (BoE), which left its key interest rate unchanged at 4.50 percent on September 8.
The move had been widely forecast by economists in the light of economic data since the bank narrowly decided to reduce British borrowing costs by a quarter of a percentage point in August for the first time since 2003.
However minutes of that meeting later revealed that BoE Governor Mervyn King had voted against the cut in a narrower-than-expected 5-4 decision.
The Confederation of British Industry will on Thursday publish its monthly report for September, after orders in August hit their lowest level for nearly two years.