About time to,,can you ask him if he will let me off the tax,i can see the next band on the horizon.

Morning all,

Cutting CGT? That won't make that much of a difference. What he should cut
(or should I say is remove) is stamp duty on share purchases.
That would have a bigger impact on bring people back into the stock market!

Maybe if he gave us some good stock picks that would be even better?

Would we trust them though GD?!

perhaps not jj.

The following is a compilation of UK company results due out in the two weeks to Nov 26.

MONDAY NOV 15
Chrysalis Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to August pretax profit 11.9 mln stg vs 8.4 mln; total dividend 0.7 pence, unchanged.

Luminar PLC six months to August pretax profit 24.5-27.0 mln stg vs 27.0 mln; interim dividend 4.0 pence, up 10 pct.

Thus PLC six months to September EBITDA 17-18 mln stg vs 20.6 mln.

TUESDAY NOV 16
Burberry Group PLC six months to September EBITA 75 mln stg vs 55.1 mln.

Business Post Group PLC. Arbuthnot Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 9.0 mln stg vs 8.1 mln; interim dividend 6.4 pence vs 5.9.

Emap PLC. Morgan Stanley forecasts six months to September EBITDA 104.5 mln stg vs 103.0 mln; pretax profit 94.5 mln stg.

Northern Foods PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts six months to October pretax profit before exceptionals 32.0 mln stg vs 32.5 mln; interim dividend 3.37 pence vs 3.3.

Vodafone Group PLC six months to September EBITDA 6.4 bln stg vs 6.6 bln; pretax profit 5.2 bln vs 5.4 bln; interim dividend 50-100 pct higher than 0.9535 pence last year.

VT Group PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts six months to September pretax profit 21.5 mln stg vs 20.0 mln; interim dividend 2.75 pence, up 7 pct.

WEDNESDAY NOV 17
GUS PLC six months to September pretax profit before exceptionals and goodwill 395-401 mln stg vs 354 mln; interim dividend 8.7 pence vs 8.0.

mmO2 PLC six months to September EBITDA 818 mln stg vs 621 mln; pretax profit 245 mln stg.

J Sainsbury PLC six months to September underlying pretax profit 125-135 mln stg vs 366 mln; interim dividend 2.15 pence vs 4.30.

THURSDAY NOV 18
BOC PLC fourth quarter to September pretax profit before exceptionals 118-135.8 mln stg vs 112.4 mln; year to September 484-5-1 mln stg vs 418.9 mln.

National Grid Transco PLC. Williams de Broe forecasts clean pretax profit 390-391 mln stg vs restated 373 mln.

SABMiller PLC six months to September pretax profit before exceptionals 995 mln usd vs 801 mln; EBITA 1 bln usd vs 889 mln; interim dividend 9.0 cents vs from 7.5.

MONDAY NOV 22
Cambridge Antibody Technology Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to September pretax loss 36.1 mln stg vs 41.8 mln.

TUESDAY NOV 23
Tribal Group PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 6.9 mln stg vs 7.0 mln; interim dividend 1.0 pence, unchanged.

WEDNESDAY NOV 24
Speedy Hire PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts six months to September pretax profit 9.0 mln stg vs 11.0 mln.

THURSDAY NOV 25
Capital Radio PLC. Evolution Securities forecasts year to September pretax profit 22.4 mln stg vs 22.8 mln; total dividend 18.5 pence, unchanged.