ShareCast News - Week Ahead
Week Ahead: Lower output guidance expected from Tullow
After a brief lull, the flow of company results is starting to increase again, with big names such as Admiral, Diageo, Petrofac, G4S, Antofagasta, Cairn, Wood Group, Serco, Tullow, WPP, BHP Billiton and Kazakhmys all set to report.[19 Aug '11]
Week Ahead: Michael Page, ENRC, BoE minutes
Wednesday will see the release of the minutes of the August meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), just a week after the Bank of England released its quarterly inflation report.[12 Aug '11]
Week Ahead: Standard Life, Greggs, InterContinental Hotels, TUI Travel
The insurance sector interim results stream continues with figures from Standard Life on Thursday. Panmure Gordon, which thinks Standard Life is in a "period of change" is predicting operating profits of £209m and an interim dividend of 4.6p a share.[5 Aug '11]
Week Ahead: Banks, insurers, properties, base rates
The end-quarter results season is fully in its stride, with trading updates expected from the high street banks, as well as reports from insurers and miners.[29 Jul '11]
Week Ahead: Oils, pharmas, Reckitt, Domino's
The half-year results season gets underway next week with a flood of updates from heavyweights, including some big players from the energy (BG, BP and Shell) and pharmaceuticals (Glaxo and Shire) sectors.[22 Jul '11]
Week Ahead: BoE notes, Kingfisher, Capita
Wednesday sees the release of the minutes of the most recent minutes of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and though it is assumed that voting on interest rate policy has become a bit of a non-event, Dr. Howard Archer, the seemingly omnipresent economist of forecasting agency IHS Global Insight, thinks the idea of a resumption of the Quantitative Easing (QE) programme to try to boost the spluttering economy could be gaining support.[15 Jul '11]
Week Ahead: Big week for clothing retailers
The second full week of July has a clothing theme with clothing outfits as diverse as Marks and Spencer, ASOS, Supergroup, Burberry and Associated British Foods (owner of Primark), all giving updates.[8 Jul '11]
Week Ahead: Babcock International, BoE rate decision
Engineering support services group Babcock International is expected to give a trading update at its annual general meeting on Thursday, and Panmure Gordon will be hoping for updates on the order pipeline and news relating to disposals.[1 Jul '11]
Week Ahead: HMV, Petrofac, Wood Group
Thursday is the big day for company trading updates next week, as is often the case, with Greene King, HMV, Petrofac and Debenhams set to update the market that day.[24 Jun '11]
Week Ahead: Whitbread in need of a perc
Whitbread did relatively well during the credit crunch era, with hotel users trading down to its Premier Inns and coffee addicts finding themselves unable to give up the Costa Coffee habit, but since the company's full year results at the end of April, investors have turned a bit sour on the company.[17 Jun '11]
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