Monday May 19, 07:18 AM
Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - London shares are set to open higher as gains in Asia this morning brightened the mood following a mixed close on Wall Street Friday, while an improvement in the Rightmove (LSE: GB00B0MFTM73.L - news) house price survey early Monday could offer some encouragement.
This week's economic highlight will come from the minutes of the last interest rate meeting from the Bank of England due Wednesday.
MARKETS
Tokyo: Nikkei 225 (news) midday 14,233.40, up 13.92
Hong Kong: Hang Seng (news) midday 25,803.65, up 184.79
TODAY'S PRESS
* Halliburton (NYSE: HAL - news) to decide on 1.8 billion pounds Expro offer - Telegraph
* BA and pilots in court over OpenSkies strike threat - FT
* GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK.L - news) bird flu vaccine given green light - Telegraph
* Strike threat at Thomson Reuters (TRI.TO - news) as further job cuts announced - Guardian
* Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT - news) in fresh approach to Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO - news) - FT
* Yahoo could lose Bebo ads deal - FT
* Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER - news) looks to the City for capital markets chief - Independent
* JP Morgan seeks jobs for sacked Bear Stearns (NYSE: BSC - news) staff - FT
* Retail entrepreneur Harold Tilman sizing up possible sale of his majority
stake in fashion chain Jaeger - Express
* The heat's on Coldplay after downbeat US sales by EMI (LSE: EMI.L - news) - Times (1832.HK - news)
* US investor Apollo moves into European property debt - FT
* The number of companies floating on AIM offerings nearly halve this year - FT
* Darling retreats from proposal to tax offshore intellectual property rights
- Times
* UK poised to become first western country to issue Islamic bonds - FT
* Wind farms stalled by five-year planning delays - Guardian
PRESS COMMENT
FT
THE LEX COLUMN comments on LBO debt; 'NZ's central bank bind'; and 'Fixing US
airlines'
Telegraph
AIM Market: Globe Specialty Metals (LSE: GLBM.L - news) ('Metal group keeps its rising star off the radar')
Independent
Small Talk: Domino's Pizza (savours its move to the main market);
Intercede (LSE: IGP.L - news) (results Tuesday); Probability (getting closer to the jackpot)
Express
THE AIM MARKET:OPG Power Ventures ('Generator gets a free hand with prices in
Indian boom'); Seven Arts Pictures (LSE: SVA.L - news) (returning to AIM just over a year after
delisting) -- The Investment Analyst: Henk Potts comments on
Standard Chartered (LSE: STAN.L - news) ('Bank's footprint has stamp of long-term growth')
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
MONDAY MAY 19
INTERIMS
2 ergo Group
Care UK (LSE: CUK.L - news)
ITE Group (LSE: ITE.L - news)
FINALS
Big Yellow Group (LSE: BYG.L - news) (Q4)
BTG (LSE: BGC.L - news)
Cranswick (LSE: CWK.L - news)
DCC (Dublin: DCC.IR - news)
Hansen Transmissions International (LSE: HSN.L - news)
Homeserve (LSE: HSV.L - news)
Mitie
PIK Group
AGMs
Amur Minerals Corporation (LSE: AMC.L - news)
AG Barr
Blue Star Maritime
Chesnara (LSE: CSN.L - news)
Ethanol Investments
Hardy Underwriting
Royal & Sun Alliance
Standard Life (LSE: SL.L - news)
Visonic (LSE: VSC.L - news)
Wellstream Holdings (LSE: WSM.L - news)
West China Cement (LSE: WCC.L - news)
EGMs
None scheduled
TRADING STATEMENTS
Derwent London (LSE: DLN.L - news)
International Ferro Metals (LSE: IFL.L - news)
Manganese Bronze (LSE: MNGS.L - news)
Wood Group
ECONOMICS
Rightmove May house prices (0001 BST)
MARKET EXPECTATIONS
* Care UK. Brewin Dolphin (LSE: BRW.L - news) forecasts six months to March EBIT 14 million pounds versus 10.3 million pounds; pretax profit 7.9 million pounds versus 7.1
million; 147.7 million pounds, 25 percent
* Mitie Group Plc. Panmure Gordon forecasts year to March group pretax profit
69.5 million pounds versus 58.2 million pounds; total dividend 5.9 pence
versus 5.1
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