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Shareholders have week to wait for Kraft to unwrap its bid for Cadbury http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/consumer_goods/article6898804.ece

Advertising industry bellwether WPP's results for the third quarter to September 30th showed revenue rose by 17% to 2.07 billion pounds, which was helped by the acquisition of market research company Taylor Nelson Sofres. However, like-for-like revenues fell 8.7% once the effects of the acquisition and sterling weakness were removed. WPP said that although the corporate climate had improved, executives were still cautious about committing to new projects. In addition, the firm announced the acquisition of mInteraction, a digital agency in Thailand which generated sales of 640, 298 pounds in 2008. Shares in the firm rose 5p to 550p.

Advertising giant WPP is leading the risers after it said it expects the second half to show a marked improvement in profitability and said overall conditions are "less worse". In the third quarter reported revenues rose by 16.7% to £2.007bn.

..mate! ATB

... my good lady finds that wax is a more favourable option! :)

Good figures, but maybe a bit frothy with general economic background. Anyway, probably get my fingers burnt, whatever way I won’t be here long. ATB

The monster from the deep is twitching again. There is still life in this old leviathan. To be fair – yesterday, was a shocking day, all round.

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200910281728315495B

…excellent news, and not before time!

The top FTSE 100 faller of the day was British Airways, shares in which descended by 10.1p to 199.7p as union Unite decided to ballot 14,000 staff on strike action over planned cost cutting measures. Earlier this month the cronked carrier, which posted a pre-tax loss of 401 million in the 12 months to March 31st 2009, said that it would be cutting up to 1,700 jobs and implementing a two year pay freeze for cabin crew in order to cope with the effects of the recession. Derek Simpson, the fat cat joint general secretary of Unite, said, "BA management's determination to impose unacceptable contractual changes on cabin crew leaves us no alternative." Presumably Simpson did not consider the alternative of joining the economic real world?

Cadbury stakeholder suggests a sweeter bid would succeed http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/business/Cadbury-stakeholder-suggests-a-sweeter.5767751.jp

Took me longer to type a fuller subject line :)

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200910270700054036B

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200910270700054037B

......again @ 194p Obvious value here. ATB PS Love the way that the SP has popped over the 200p landmark, recently!

I was short, so I'd wait until things stabilise, a little. ATB

..but take care ATB

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200910261401133818B

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=200910261112423643B

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLNE59M00Y20091023?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=11564