A Brief Look At The Week Ahead

The Bank of England meets again this week to decide on the direction of British monetary policy. No-one is predicting that that the BoE will cut interest rates now, but pundits are anticipating growing dissent among the members of the Monetary Policy Committee about when to make the move, seen as inevitable. Another oily week sees BP in the spotlight on Tuesday with full-year results expected to show a 44% profit improvement on 2004 at $32.5bn. Impressive, but not enough to top Shell's record profit published last week. BP was hit hard by the Gulf of Mexico hurricane season and the closure of the Texas City refinery. Analysts will want assurance that the $1bn estimated cost is not set to increase. BG Group reports Q4 results on Thursday with analysts forecasting a 71% rise in pre-tax profit to 2.6bn. The Q4 bonanza will have been aided by BG's decision to sell gas on the open market, a windfall that analysts at Deutsche Bank warn investors not to extrapolate into 2006. Few surprises are expected from BT on Thursday, with analysts predicting a Q3 profit of around 490m, against 550m last year. Investors will be keen so hear how BT is reacting to rising broadband competition and the potential impact of VoIP, which allows people to make phone calls free through their computers. On Wednesday, takeover target BOC posts its Q1 result. A flat consensus estimate of around 130m, hit by accounting changes and the sale of Afrox Healthcare, may weaken the board's dismissive stance on rival Linde's 1,500p offer. Despite BOC's dismissal of the Germans' approach, many analysts see this as merely the beginning of an extended period of negotiation, not ruling out the possibility of BOC making a counter-bid for Linde. Healthy news is expected from Reckitt Benckiser on Wednesday. Analysts expect the manufacturer of Air Wick, Dettol and Lemsip to post a pre-tax 868m profit, a 15% improvement on 2004. Investors will be hoping to hear that the merger of Boots Healthcare International into the group is set fair. Among others in the limelight in London this week will be Autonomy on Monday; Regent Inns and Yell on Tuesday; Glaxo and Scottish Power on Wednesday and Smith + Nephew on Thursday. It looks like being another very busy week. Good hunting! Greystone (Greystone is Alan English, City Editor at MoneyAM.)

Press wkend

This is my selection for the "UPS" this week GTL

Share	Volume	Chart	News	Various
GTL price 2.43p	Biggest ever volume of 50M some 17 times the usual	Broke 2p last Friday what was resistance since last September, the chart is looking very bullish now as on a couple days will do a Golden Cross	Construction work on its new ethanol plant in the US is on track to start in the Q4 of 2006 on production for 50 mln gallon a year company is investigating the potential expansion of that site to 100 mln gallon	Ethanol stocks have been rising since the mention of the word "ethanol" at Union speech by President Bush

Be careful with Gtl resources.

Looks like a pump and dump from that lovely advfn bb.

55 mil market cap for a company that hopes to start production of methanol
by the end of 2007 not 2006, 2 years away and you only have to look at the
ups and downs of Biofules to see that the price is already far too high on future
events so dont chase it because you will get hung.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei closed up 88.12 points at 16,747.76, its best level since August 2000. The Hang Seng ended the morning up 67.12 points at 15,496.85.

Oil was sharply higher on Iran concerns. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in March, was up $1.03 at $66.40 a barrel, compared to $65.37 in the US on Friday.

Happy Monday!

G.

Aus close

FTSE outlook

S/guide

Good Morning all,

After a good start to my new spread bet account last week Friday I got too close to the margin (my own fault - not thinking) and closed a couple of positions (Long DAX) early giving me a nearly 10 loss. So I ended the week 15 up. Which I don't think is bad with an account holding only 100!

Currently Long UKX with plenty of margin. I've got a lot of other work to do this week so will not be doing much. I must try and let the position run - unless I believe the market will make a big drop.

The LSE said the number of equity transactions carried out on its main SETS electronic trading platform rose 45% on the year in January to 5.4 million.

ravey davy gravy

Your are as much as a foul and lier as your name

Maybe you have been hung once too often, not a penny at our saving box

GTL 2.80 -2.90p +0.42p

moving higher with volume 30M

Others selected yesterday...........

Master RSI - 5 Feb'06 - 23:59 - 16 of 66 edit
UPS
CSH 25.5 - 26p
Two "T" trades of 250K and another normal trade of 250K late last friday,
got the shares moving up after being marked down like the rest of the market.
Good news last Tuesday on the started deliveries of Zhengeldy oil

lol

I see you are pumping this on your ghastly ups threads on advfn.

What a bunch of cowboys that infest that thread, dont forget to keep
us updated on Gtl when the dumping starts.

http://champinvest.com/league/

Others selected yesterday...........


Master RSI - 5 Feb'06 - 23:14 - 14 of 66 edit
KEEP an EYE
FTC 167 - 168p
Large volume last Thursday and Friday (3.2M, 6.6 times the usual,
Is now bouncing from a large drop, well undervalued by sales / market cap

ravey davy gravy

Have you heard that:

"Tell me your name and I will tell, you personality"

       ENVY

   

Midday Market Summary

You need to grow up master rsi.

Is this what you do all day, attack any poster that does not agree with
your pumping of Gtl, if it so good then why are you pumping on numerous
bulletin boards ?

Gtl is loss making, has a very high market cap now and does not have a plant
ready for production for a very long time, you only have to look at the ups and
downs of Biofules to see it's not worth chasing too highly.

That's my view and others might disagree, big mistake to think a share is cheap
because a similar US rival has a bigger market cap, ALL US stocks have bigger
market caps than our shares.