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US Stocks suffered a mild round of profit taking today after hitting new 2003 highs the day before.

United Utilities said profits grew 4.4 percent from a year ago, towards the top end of analysts expectations. Profit grew to 171 million pounds from 163.8 million a year ago.

Serco Group said it continued to trade strongly and in line with market expectations. The company manages and operates call centres, speed cameras and prisons for government bodies, said in a statement: "In addition, there continues to be a good flow of new bids and opportunities for the Group, both in the UK and overseas and it expects to hear news, in the short term, on bids worth 7.5 billion poundsJarvis said it had won a contract worth 263 million pounds with Norfolk County Council, eastern England, to improve up to 39 Norfolk schools.

Rank Group launched a 150 million pounds convertible bond issue on Wednesday to refinance existing debt maturing in 2008. The new issue would be convertible into about 42 million new Rank shares

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Britain's biggest regional brewer reported a 1.2% dip in annual profits to 73.1 million pounds but said it had made a good start to its new financial year.

Tesco said the interest rate rise by the Bank of England (BoE) last month had not yet had a big effect on consumers

De Vere Group hotels posted a five percent rise in annual profit to 39.7 million pounds slightly above expectations and said recent booking trends were encouraging, though trading conditions remained volatile.

De Vere Group (F) PBT 38.7m exp. United Utilities (I) PBT 168m exp. Wolverhampton & Dudley (F) PBT 72.5m exp, Upholstery (F), Wagon (I) Expro International (I), Mentmore (I), Reliance Security (I), RPC Group (I), ScSGlaxSmithKline research and development day

British Airways Nov Traffic Figures

08.30 Chancellor Brown Addresses European Finance Convention

09.30 Nov CIPS Services PMI 59.0 exp.

11.00 Nov CBI Distributive Trades 26.0 exp.

Mandalay, QwCommunication (Q)

13.30 3rd Quarter Final Non-Farm Productivity 9.2% exp. 13.30 3rd Quarter Final Unit Labour Costs 5.6% exp. 15.00 Nov Non-Manufacturing ISM 64.0 exp.

Europe: KLM (Traffic)

08.55 Nov German BME Services PMI 54.5 exp. 09.00 Nov BME Services PMI 56.5 exp.

11.00 3rd Quarter GDP Estimate q/q 0.4% exp.

11.00 Commission Publishes 4th & 1st Quarter GDP Forecast

Ex Dividend: 3i Group (5.1), Anglo Irish Bank (EUR 0.1393), Bank Of Ireland (EUR 0.148), Big Food Group (1.1), Body Shop International (1.9), Bodycote International (2.25), Caledonia Investments (8.4), Cranswick (4.4), Croda International (4.02), Daily Mail & General (6.85), Diploma (10), Greencore Group (EUR 0.0758), Helical Bar (6.6), Hill & Smith Holdings (2.15), Johnson Matthey (8.2), Land Securities Group (9.9), London Merchant Securities (2), London Stock Exchange (1.4), Majestic Wine (4.5), Merchant Retail Group (0.75), Pilkington (1.75), SABMiller (US$ 0.075), South Staffordshire (6.1), TBI (0.7), Tate & Lyle (5.6), Town Centre Securities (3.85), United Drug (EUR 0.0297)

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