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News Headlines:    US stocks ended mixed despite upgrades of AT&T and Walt Disney but were cautious starting a week filled with earnings and economic news.

House prices rose 1.0 percent in July, slightly more than June's 0.9 percent increase

IG INDEX said it had agreed to a 255 per share 143 million pound offer from a bid vehicle called IGGHL that is backed by the company's executive directors.

Amersham: healthcare said that adverse foreign exchange moves took a big chunk out of first-half profits, but it was on course for solid full-year growth at constant currency rates. Profit before tax fell 12 percent to 140 million pounds againts the consensus forecast of 143 million pounds

United Business Media: UK publishing and market said its first-half pre-tax profit rose 12 percent to 45.5 million pounds, citing improvements in the U.S. advertising market. They own PR Newswire and has a stake in UK broadcaster Channel 5, said turnover fell 16.7 percent to 344 million pounds but raised its dividend 10 percent to 3.3 pence per share. The company posted a loss of 17.5 million pounds, or 5.3 pence per share, compared with a loss of 50.3 million pounds, or 15.1 pence per share, a year earlier.

Prudential:slashed its interim dividend by 40 percent to 5.3 pence in line with analysts' expectations.Flat total insurance and investment sales of 2003 of 15.5 billion pounds and recorded a new business achieved profit of 303 million pounds, down 18 percent -- again in line with expectations.

BP: Awaiting Data At 10AM

BAT: reported a 25 percent fall in half-year profits but said it remained on track in a challenging year. They reported first-half 2003 pre-tax profits of 762 million pounds

Orange: Sales rose 6.9% with new products such as photo messaging.

Novar: building materials firm said that headline earnings fell 25 percent in the first half of 2003 from a year earlier, hit by tough markets and adverse currency movements. They also said it faced "a number of challenges" to meet its full-year expectations.

Cookson electronics and ceramics engineer posted a 67 percent rise after reducing its cost structure. The company said its operating profit was 22.2 million pounds for the six months to the end of June but sales for continuing operations were four percent lower at 827 million pounds due to the effect of currenct translation.

Calendar All GMT	United Kingdom (F)inals (I)nterim	United States (Click Flag)	Europe & World
Tue 29th	Amersham (I) PBT 144.5m exp. BP (Q2) PBT US$3,628m, BAT (Q2) PBT 649m exp. Prudential (I) PBT 466m exp.(& New Business) Cookson Group (I), Elementis (I), Games Workshop (F), Genetix Group (I), Halma (AGM), Novar (I), RPS Group (I) St James's Place (I), United Business Media (I) 09.30 June Final M4 Money Supply 09.30 June Net Consumer Credit 1.6bn exp.	RJ Reynolds (Q2), Tyco Intl (Q2), Verizon (Q2) 15.00 July Consumer Confidence 85.0 exp.	Alcatel (Q2), Aventis (Q2) 09.00 May Current Account - E2.8bn exp.
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