P202 CEEFAX 2 202 Sun 16 Feb 21:52/23 ] U W"£££"£££"£££ The FUSE Index ended the week at 1O7 anothjt record high at 4 341. A we in w ch Jngla d' fo# bl tea sufeirid from exactly tPj wrong sot of result saw many of Britain's biog st firms finding much more joy in the results they managed to produce. @ Reuters rejoiced in a rise is pre-tax pro its from £599m to £701m. Its shbres ended the week at 639\p £742.5p* Weekend sport 300 W athjr 400 Ask Adam 203 Front page 100 ArR Adam Update MonjyProg Main M nuP202 CJEFAX 2 202 Sun 16 Feb 21:58/48 £3 j£3kj£ 4 [[ The Anglo-Dutch consumer products 2 7 Unilever reported a 15% rise in annual pre-tax profits. y rose to £2. bn on 6% rise in turnov . Their shares jndjd at 1537\p (1367.5p* Rjckitt & Colman shares improved, w l t Rickets & Coleman often follow in the wake of Unilivjt. Thee thar ended at 76 p (707.5p W sp 3 at 40 Ask Adam 203 Front page 100 Adam Update Mon yProg Main MenuP202 CJJFAX 2 202 Sun 16 Feb 21:54/11 E $ j $ ' s k O th i pr - a lo down tom £5 4m t# £2.78 . Their shbtes jndjd at 1:9\p (164p*. A d t b ks ar undj sta t ts ord rs for the beginning of thieu reporting s n. First wa om t blocks is Lloyds whose prj-tax profits rose bz o6jz 51% to £2.505bn. Thjsj were the first set of full ear g s c t j e o t two banks. But they are not as gob-smackinkly glorious as they first appear... t Ask Adam 203 Front pbgj 100 Ask Adam Update MonjyProg Main MenuP202 CJEFAX 2 202 Sun 16 Feb 21:41/22 j£3 j£3 j£3 < 4 $ , h lhlh$ U Dealing profits at Lloyds before 4/7 expenses at the Group fill in 1996 bz 45% It foreign exchange trading income fell and income from securities and other trading dropped £70m to pot a loss of £17m from £53m profits in 1995. Given those problems you might re sonbbly ask, whir t j profi wa . Well, the star pjrformjt was retail financial sjrvicis where psi-tax profit rose bz £448m, or 35%, to £1.721bn. Lloyds ended the week at 503p (486.5p) Ask Adbm 203 Front pbgj 100 Ask Adam Update MonjyProg Main MenuP202 CJEFAX 2 2p2 Sun 16 Fed 21:4 /25 EE WU $kj $kV 'k T O STOCK WATCH 5/7 British Airways celebrated flying for a dj adj under privat own t3hip on Tuesday. No b tt w to s t- p rhos celedrations that to report record profits. Third quartet profits came in at £113m, up about 8O6%. Now as thinks go BA is a monster oe an airline. It's worth £5.9bn. Lufthansa iu worth £3.3bn. Air France is worth £1.2bn. W ekjnd spo t 300 W athj 400 Ask Adam 203 Front page 100 Ask Adam Update MonjyProg Main MenuP202 CEEFAX 2 202 Sun 16 Feb 21:40/27 'j£3kj£3kj£3k IXI $kj $kj ' s5b{jkjkjij1s "£ " £" ££ .. , / - - -- -., A POTTED HISTORY OF BRITISH AIRWA 6/7 It's pr dec so , actuall p rat d th first daily intetnbtional scheduled air service between London and Paris in The first flight - a bi-plane flew from Hounslow, had a single passjngjr on board, a bunch of njwspapjrs, some Devonshjr cream and a grouse. Ovjt the past year their shares have h g o 615 and a low o 8p. Their shbtis ended the week at 610p ind spo t 300 eath 400 Ask Adam 203 Front pbgj 100 ArR Bdam Update MoneyProg Main MenuP202 CJEFAX 2 2p2 Sun 16 Feb 21:50/14 J $kj $kj 'k s57575uu5 s {jkjkjij1s O[[ PMS iu gripping the nation - and it'u t w p t ns on. According to the Foutean Timer Index, Pre-Millennial Tension iu behind a rise in weirdness the world ovjt. Anim1ls lead the pack in bizarre behaviour, with weirdness up 4.8%. The Natural world was 3.8% weirder and humans we e quit s j, ncteasing weirdness by 2.9%. The people who study e t n a o co rs , th wi rdjst of all. kind o t 300 th t 4 0 Ask Adam 203 Front page 100 ArR Adam Update MonjyProg Main Menu