| NXT - Next |
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| Latest Prices |
| Name |
Price |
% |
| Next |
2,040.00p |
+0.59% |
| Old Mutual |
133.80p |
+1.59% |
| RSA Insurance Group |
125.00p |
+0.56% |
| Signet Jewelers |
1,831.00p |
+3.56% |
| |
| FTSE 100 |
5,365 |
-0.02% |
| FTSE 250 |
10,146 |
+0.84% |
| FTSE 350 |
2,832 |
+0.09% |
| FTSE All-Share |
2,771 |
+0.13% |
| FTSEurofirst 300 |
1,054 |
-0.13% |
| General Retailers |
1,580 |
+0.77% |
| Insurance (non-life) |
1,469 |
+0.29% |
| Life Insurance |
3,917 |
+1.08% |
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LONDON (SHARECAST) - With house prices falling but oil and other commodities still soaring, the decision on interest rates will be a tough one for the Bank of England after last month’s quarter point cut to 5%.
It will also be a busy day on the company news front, with several FTSE 100 companies reporting.
In retail, trading statements are due from clothes chain Next and jeweller Signet. Both companies have been less than cheery of late, with Next warning that trading conditions in the year ahead will continue to be difficult and Signet saying last month that the outlook remains ‘very challenging’ on both sides of the Atlantic. Dresdner Kleinwort foresees a 9% fall in Next’s first quarter shop sales and a 3% fall in catalogue sales.
The insurance sector also comes into focus. Royal and Sun Alliance issues first quarter results, while a trading statement is due from Old Mutual.
INTERIMS
Diageo, Inmarsat, Lonmin, Mapeley, Royal and Sun Alliance, Sage Group, Unilever
INTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
GETECH Group
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
ECB Interest Rate (EU)
EGMS
New Star Absolute Return Fund Income Shares, Weatherly International
AGMS
British Polythene, Financial Objects, Ford Motor Co, GLOBO, Jardine Matheson (Singapore), Kingdom Hotel, Lloyds TSB Group, Old Mutual, Provident Financial, Roc Oil Company, Spring Group, Swiss Life Holdings, Trinity Mirror, Zotefoams
TRADING ANNOUNCEMENT
Close Brothers, International Power, Next, Old Mutual, Provident Financial, Renishaw, Signet
UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS
BoE Interest Rate Decision (12:00)
FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE
China Medical System Holdings, Foreign and Colonial Inv Trust, Kazakhmys, Porvair
QUARTERLY RESULTS
Bank Pekao (Reg S), Coca-Cola Hbc, Imperial Chemical Industries, Inmarsat, Mapeley, Unilever
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