Headline shares are tipped to open ninteen to twenty-four points lower today, according to financial websites, taking a lead from heavy falls on Wall Street last night and across Asia this morning. In the US last night, the Dow tumbled 213 points at 10,992, the Nasdaq Composite lost 51 points at 2,471 and the S&P500 slid 28 points to 1,184. In Asia today, the Nikkei was down 273.3 points at 10,939.36, while the Hang Seng ended the morning off 267.52 points at 20,994.27. Crude oil traded at $82.19 a barrel on Nymex. Gold settled at $1,164 an ounce.
LONDON MARKETS
In a busy corporate diary today, interim results are due from 888 Holdings, Admiral Group (LON:ADM) Fenner Plc (LON:FENR), Superglass Holdings, Glaxosmithkline (LON:GSK), Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSA), Partygaming Plc (LON:PRTY), Segro Plc (LON:SGRO) and Virgin Media (LON:VMED)
Final results are scheduled from Corac Group (LON:CRA), Dyson Group (LON:DYS), Fortune Oil (LON:FTO), Gresham Computing (LON:GHT), Home Retail Group Plc (LON:HOME), Hydrodec Group (LON:HYR), MP Evans Group, Oakley Capital Investments Ltd (LON:OCL) , Oxford Advanced Surfaces (LON:OXA), REA Holdings, Tandem Group (LON:TND) and Vero Software Plc (LON:VERO)
Trading statements are expected from Bodycote, British American Tobacco (LON:BATS), Informa (LON:INF) Law Debenture, Morse (LON:MOR), Novae Group (LON:NVA), SVG, Carpetright (LON:CPR), Stagecoach Group (LON:SGC) and Stanley Gibbons Group (LON:SGI)
Admiral Group (LON:ADM), Aggreko (LON:AGK), Alkane Energy (LON:ALK), Allied Irish Banks (LON:ALBK), Altin, Aviva (LON:AV.) Bank Pekao, Bodycote, British American Tobacco (LON:BATS) Croda International Plc (LON:CRDA) Economic Lifestyle Property Inv Co, EP Global Opportunities Trust, European Assets Trust, Greenwich Loan Income Fund (LON:GLIF), Invista Real Estate Investment Company (LON:INV) Management Holdings, Media Corporation, Melchior Japan Inv Trust, Mercator Gold (LON:MCR) Neutrahealth Plc (LON:NUT), Novatek, Rolls-Royce Group, Royal Bank Of Scotland Group Plc (LON:RBS), Stanley Gibbons Group (LON:SGI) and XCounter all host their AGMs.
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