A Brief Look At The Week Ahead

The banking sector will remain in the spotlight this week. The market will be looking to Alliance & Leicester on Monday, Royal Bank of Scotland on Tuesday and HBOS on Wednesday for similarly good numbers to Lloyds TSB and Barclays who reported last week. RBoS is set for a pre-tax profit of 8bn, but analysts will be running over the numbers with a fine-tooth comb, paying close attention to the return on invested capital. Analysts expect to see a 4.8bn pre-tax profit for HBOS, which it expects will benefit from a more disciplined approach to capital spending. Publishing group, Pearson, is set to report pre-tax profits of 412m for the year on Monday. Analysts expect numbers to reflect the positive trading statement the group made in January. Shareholders will undoubtedly be posing the perennial FT disposal questions but they are unlikely to be answered. Mining group Xstrata is set to follow in the footsteps of rivals BHP Billiton and Anglo American. According to analysts, the miner will post a $1.7bn profit and distribute a hefty dividend when all is revealed on Wednesday. The earnings of British American Tobacco and Gallaher, just two weeks after Parliament voted to ban smoking in public places, will be interestng. Analysts expect BAT to report a full-year pre-tax profit of 2.7bn on Tuesday , 8% up on last year. The following day Gallaher is expected to reveal a pre-tax profit of 565m, just 3% better than the year before. The company is struggling within Western Europe, where increased taxes and smoking and advertising bans throughout have cut into turnover. JD Wetherspoon is set to announce interim results on Friday. Like-for-like sales at pubs where the company is experimenting with a smoking ban have fallen markedly, though Wetherspoon will point out that the performance is misleading, given that the ban will soon affect all pubs. Other companies of interest taking the stage this week include Bunzl on Monday; Alliance Unichem and PartyGaming on Tuesday; LogicaCMG on Wednesday; Arriva and Trinity Mirror on Thursday and Retail Decisions on Friday. A busy week with the financial sector again to the fore! I'm sure you all find something there to profit by. Good hunting! Greystone (Greystone is Alan English, City Editor at MoneyAM.)

LATE LUNCH TIME FUN

SANTA could do with some FUN


Mrs. CLAUS way of FUN

S/Guide

This is my selection for the "UPS" this week GGG

Share	Volume	Chart	News	Various
GGG price 6.50p	Rising volume about 3 times the usual last Friday	Indicators at oversold and now rising MACD is just on the crossing up, very positive	High management team with many years of experience in China are acquiring and developing gold and other mineral prospects in that zone, have recently released good results with propects for increasing tonnage and higher grades	Company has 1.7M cash (3.2p) for exploration but hope to increase this amount with investors converting warrants before expiring date April 06

And this is the chart for GGG

          JOKE OF THE DAY

HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:

She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN.
She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE.
She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE.
She does not TEASE or FLIRT - She engages in ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION.
She is not DUMB - She is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY.
She has not BEEN AROUND - She is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION.
She does not GET YOU EXCITED - She causes TEMPORARY BLOOD DISPLACEMENT.
She is not KINKY - She is a CREATIVE CARETAKER.
She does not have a KILLER BODY - She is TERMINALLY ATTRACTIVE.
She is not an AIRHEAD - She is REALITY IMPAIRED.
She does not get DRUNK or TIPSY - She gets CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED.
She is not HORNY - She is SEXUALLY FOCUSED.
She does not have BREAST IMPLANTS - She is MEDICALLY ENHANCED.
She does not NAG YOU - She becomes VERBALLY REPETITIVE.
She is not a SLUT - She is SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED.
She does not have MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS - She is PECTORALLY SUPERIOR.
She is not a TWO-BIT WHORE - She is a LOW COST PROVIDER.

    

Another "UPS"
FAO 5.30p
Supper volume again last Friday at 6 times the usual
on a rising chart after a good retracement.
Company had raise raised 15 cash on loan notes two weeks ago,
to develop EOV block just adquired from Energem

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei closed up 91.04 points at 16,192.95, while the Hang Seng hit the midpoint up 106.50 points at 15,962.55 with HSBC particularly popular ahead of their results this week.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April, was down 67 cents at $62.24 from its close of $62.91 in the US on Friday.

Happy trading!

G.

Good morning all.

Good morning all

Long FTSE100 & PSN

GGG 6.75 - 7p +0.375p

moving higher at both sides
Following last Friday move up

Selected earlier at "UPS"
Master RSI - 27 Feb'06 - 10:59 - 59 of 66 edit
UPS
PVR 4.15 - 4.3p
Steady movement up from last Friday

Steady movement up from last Friday,
very good news two weeks ago "It has signed a farm-out agreement with ExxonMobil,
the world's largest oil and gas company, on its Dunquin Prospect, in the Porcupine Basin, off the west coast of Ireland.

Midday Market Summary

UPS
VLR 46 - 48p

Moving higher after a large drop recently.
Indicators rising with MACD on the turn
Share price at lower Bollinger Band
Last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Calor Gas
to develop the market for fuel cell generators and battery chargers.
Has patents concerning revolutionary technology

GPC 2 - 2.15p+0.25p

moving higher and a BREAKOUT

BREAKOUT

End-of-day Market Summary

           JOKE OF THE DAY

trouble - shut up - maners

Three guys walking up a montain.
one was called trouble one shutup and the other maners.

trouble got lost so the other 2 ran down to a police station.
shutup went in and maners stayed outside.

shutup said " I need to find my brother"
the cop said " whats your name" "shutup"

the cop said, "escuse me?", "Shut up","
hey wheres your maners?!"," outside!",

"hey kid are you looking for trouble","yes!!!"