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News Headlines:   Wall Street marked another up session thanks to further gains in the technology sector keep most of the broader market afloat.

UK shares should open up slightly higher within striking distance of year highs on hopes of further evidence of U.S. economic recovery from key employment data due at 1230 GMT followed by non farm payroll at 13:30 GMTAnglo American South Africa gave the green light late for them to acquire nearly 35 percent in the country's biggest iron-ore producer, Kumba Resources worth about 4 billion rand Vodafones J-Phone in Japan said net user growth fell 53 percent in August from a year earlier to 50,200. That was the lowest level since the current company structure was formed through a merger of regional firms in November, 2001.Reuters, shares in its US Instinet Group which runs an electronic share trading network, as it reported an increase in trading volume in July from a year earlier and amid speculation the company might be the subject of a takeover.BP, SHELL crude futures extend losses pressured by fund selling following data that showed a build in U.S. fuel stocks.BT said it would change the pricing of its wholesale high-speed Internet services for the second time this year, following complaints from rivals

JD Wetherspoon reported a five percent rise in annual profits on Friday and said August like-for-like sales growth slowed to 3.5 percent after 4.1 percent in the year. They reported profits of 56.1 million pounds for the year compared to analyst forecasts of 54-57 million pounds..

EasyJet said it carried almost two million passengers in August up 17 percent from the same month in 2002. Its load factor was 88.1 percent up from 87.2 percent the year before.

Rank said that tough trading at its Hard Rock cafes and film and video business outweighed strength at its casinos, and added current trading was following a similar pattern. Profit fell nine percent to 77.4 million pounds with the consensus forecast among analysts of 78 million.

RMC the world's largest producer of ready-mixed concrete posted lower first-half profits, as expected, on Friday amid continued sluggish demand at its German business. 6 month profits of 50.7 million pounds down from 80.6 million pounds.

Calendar All GMT	United Kingdom (F)inals (I)nterim	United States (Click Flag)	Europe & World
Friday	Rank Group (I) PBT 77.1m exp. RMC Group (I) PBT 7.4m exp. Aga Foodservice (I), Go-Ahead Group (F), Highway Insurance Holdings (I), JD Wetherspoon (F), Marshalls (I), Swan Hill Group (I) EasyJet Aug Traffic Figures	13.30 Aug Non-Farm Payrolls 15k exp. Average Workweek, Hourly Earnings Aug Unemployment Rate Aug	11.00 July German Preliminary Industrial          Production m/m 0.8% exp.
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