Friday

Berkeley Group Hldgs (LON:BKG) is not declaring a dividend for the year to end April. It said it preferred to spend the money on land acquisitions. It reported a profit before tax of £110.3m , 8.4% less than last year. The company holds £317m of net cash on its balance sheet.

Investec has completed the acquisition of Rensburg Sheppards (LON:RBG).

Davis Service Group (LON:DVSG) announced that trading is continuing in line with expectations.

MITIE has acquired Dalkia for e12.5m

BP (LON:BP.) reported that the first relief well has detected the MC252 oil well and work is proceeding to make an interception to enable the failed well to be killed.

Thursday

Resolution (LON:RSL) has announced the acquisition of AXA’s UK Life Business.  The total consideration payable is up to £2,750m and is being funded by a fully underwritten rights issue of approximately £2,055m and an acquisition finance facility of £400m.

Mcbride (LON:MCB) expects operating profits for the year to be in line with its expectations.

The Go-Ahead Group (LON:GOG) Group said that trading has been in line with expectations and is confident it will meet expectations for the current financial year.

DS Smith released final results for the year ended 30th April 2010 in which it reported revenue of £2,070.6m, down slightly from £2,106.6m the previous year.  EBITDA was up 1.3% to £166.0m.  The full year dividend has been increased by 4.5% to 4.6p.

EAGA said that trading for the year is in line with the guidance given in the interim management statement on the 15th April.

Dsg International (LON:DSGI) reported full year profits at the top end of expectations, up 61% to £90.5m for the year ended 1st May 2010.  The revolving credit facility prohibits the payments of dividends to shareholders in respect of the 2009/10 financial year.

Micro Focus International announced an increase in revenue of 57% to $432.6m in preliminary results for the year ended 30th April 2010.  Profit before tax is up 39% to $160.9m.  The Board has proposed a final dividend of 16.2 cents making a total dividend for the year of 21.8 cents, up 40% on the previous year.

Petrofac (LON:PFC) said that operations were performing in line with expectations in a trading update released today.

Wednesday

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