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Annual UK house price growth slowed very slightly in the three months to January as more people put their properties on the market

Vodafone is now favourite to win the bidding battle for AT&T. It may raise its offer to as much as $39.4 billion (21 billion pounds), while Cingular Wireless is now thought not to raise its offer.

Amersham medical firm currently being taken over by General Electric said a weaker dollar meant its profits fell last year 2% to 294 million pounds, but its drug discovery unit moved into the black ahead of schedule.

Reuters returned back into profit which were above market expectations despite a 10% fall in revenues. Profit of 190 million compared with market forecasts of around 110-150 million pounds. The company declared a full-year dividend of 10 pence per share. Good figures!

Uniq food group said it was in discussions to sell its UK poultry business, after the loss of key Burger King work and the outbreak of Avian flu around the world has led to a loss of about 3 million pounds in the current financial year

Bradford & Bingley mortgage bank reported annual profit of 263 million pound beating expectations of 261 million pounds after its estate agency business recovered in the second half.

Amersham (F), BG BG Group (F),

Reuters Group (F), DICOM Group (I), Netstore (I)

Temple Bar Investment Trust (F), Second Alliance Trust (H1), Fairplace Consulting (I), BG Group (F),

Bradford & Bingley (F), Hardys & Hanson (AGM)

UK RICS Jan house price survey (0030 )

Genuine Parts Company Q4, Glamis Gold Limited Q4 Network Appliance Inorated Q3, Agilent Technologies Q1 Fairplace Consulting, Macro 4, Netstore, Rights and Issues I.T.

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