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A Brief Look At The Week Ahead | |
A trio of housebuilding giants will publish results next week that are likely to benefit from the continuing property boom in the UK. Persimmon will unveil its annual numbers on Monday. Barratt Developments, which earlier this month agreed to pay 2.2bn for rival Wilson Bowden, gives interim numbers on Wednesday. Wilson Bowden unveils its annual results on Friday. HBOS and Royal Bank of Scotland reveal their annual results on Thursday and Friday, respectively. They are expected to notch up rising profits. That will surely heap pressure on the Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission, which are looking into the fees the big high-street banks charge their customers. British American Tobacco will unveil annual results on Thursday that are sure to show that, although our love of cigarettes may be fading, in the developing world the desire to light up is growing. Evolution Securities expects the maker of Dunhill and Lucky Strike cigarettes to reveal a 6% increase in overall turnover, despite falling sales in the UK, weak demand in North America, and a hit from the falling value of the dollar. BAT will be saved by rising sales in the Asia-Pacific region and in Latin America, where it is the largest seller of tobacco. On the same theme, The City will have its farewell look at Gallaher as an independent group when it gives annual numbers on Friday. The event will largely be ceremonial, however, as the maker of Silk Cut has already agreed to be bought out by Japan Tobacco. No other bidders have shown up. Representatives of the online gambling industry will be eager to put a year to forget behind them. US legislation barring gambling in the world's largest online betting market severely hurt earnings and share prices across the industry. Now that the dust has begun to settle, investors will want to look forward. PartyGaming reports annual results on Thursday, while Sportingbet reveals interims the same day. Amongst others in the spotlight this week will be Bunzl and Hammerson on Monday; GKN and Standard Chartered on Tuesday; LogicaCMG on Wednesday; National Express and Trinity Mirror on Thursday and Schroders and JD Wetherspoon on Friday. Good hunting! Greystone (Greystone is Alan English, City Editor at MoneyAM.) |
Share | Volume | Chart | News | Various |
NTA price 35.00p | Rising volume since last Thursday reaching last Friday to 13 times the usual | Bouncing from retracement and looking to BREAKOUT at 36p and intraday 38p as Indicators are rising from oversold and MACD turning | Has a 5% stake on a Lancaster Gate site that could get a return from it of 5 to 50% worth a few millions for the company if new plans for large flats are accepted | The properties on their books are mainly in the London West End were thier value is roaring ahead at the highest rate in the country |
2 month candlestick with volume
2 weeks chartbollinger bands, MACD
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Director Dealings - Friday 23 February, 2007 |