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Monday, February 18, 2013, Marketing Communication Cantor Opening Call The FTSE is seen around unchanged today UK Corporate Announcements BATM announces a full year EBITDA of $3.1m from $3.5m and a net income of $0.7m from $3.7m and sees revenue growth in 2013 significantly higher than 2012 UK Market News Reports suggest that Vodafone may make a move for Kabel Deutschland as early as next week The FT suggests that Man Group is announce a management reshuffle when the new CEO moves in at the end of this month Capital Shopping Centre’s name change to INTU Properties comes effective today The FT writes that the UK is outgunned as talks on EU bank reforms enter a ‘potentially decisive week’ Rightmove has UK house asking prices up to a 5 year high WH Ireland announces it has agreed to buy the private wealth management unit from Tenebris, formerly Seymour Pierce, for £25,000 UK Analyst Changes Ab Foods Pt Raised To 2,000P Vs 1,705P At Ubs, Reiterates Buy UK Insider Buying E-Therapeutics Plc, (ETX), 1 insider(s) bought 15000 shares, £0.32 Havelock Europa Plc, (HVE), 1 insider(s) bought 115000 shares, £0.16 Impax Asset Managemen, (IPX), 1 insider(s) bought 100000 shares, £0.42 Legendary Investments, (LEG), 1 insider(s) bought 10000000 shares, £0 Lo-Q Plc, (LOQ), 1 insider(s) bought 40000 shares, £4.35 Water Hall Group Plc, (WTH), 2 insider(s) bought 11000000 shares, £0.02 UK Insider Selling Burberry Group Plc, (BRBY),  insider(s) sold 61171 shares, £13.61 Charles Stanley Group, (CAY),  insider(s) sold 9420 shares, £3.51 Imperial Tobacco Group, (IMT), 6 insider(s) sold 48087 shares, £23.09 Rurelec Plc, (RUR), 1 insider(s) sold 100000 shares, £0.1 FTSE 100 Movers Major European Companies Reporting Carlsberg A/S, R, 35.82,  TNT Express NV, R, 0.195 European Market Summary Heinz is in the news on reports that the SEC has sued traders over some suspicious trading in the stock Telefonica details that the value of its assets in Venezuela dropped by €1bn due to the recent currency devaluation, and that its full year results were impacted by a €438m FX charge France sells up to €7.5bn in bills at 14:50 Major US Stock Movers After Hours There were no major movers after hours on Friday S&P 500 Companies Reporting Express Scripts Holding Co, Q4, 1.044 US Market News The G 20 members have states that they will not target FX for competitive purposes and would not target exchange rates to aid economies Readers Digest files for bankruptcy and states that it expects to emerge from the protection in less than 6 months Facebook states that its systems were targeted by a sophisticated attack Best Buy is to make its price matching policy permanent as it looks to end the practice of ‘showrooming’ where potential customers use the store to view and demo items, but then leave to find the cheapest price online Barron’s flags up analysts that see Rochester Medical could gain as much as 50% in 18 months, and suggests that Samsung could out-perform Apple The paper also suggest that Linn Energy  could be vulnerable to losses ahead after an analysts questions its accounting methods on available cash flow Overnight Market News S&P has confirmed its AA- rating on Japan and keeps its outlook negative Asian markets gained as the yen fell after the G20 comments on FX Thailand details that its quarterly GDP gained 18.9% well ahead of the 15.3% expected, and its fastest rate since 1993 Singapore reportedly is looking at dropping the Sibor and may instead use the US dollar Libor rate Bloomberg suggests that George Soros has made $1bn on the yen on its moves from November 2012 Economic Data Due 00:01 February Rightmove House Prices, 0.2% previous 09:00 Eurozone Current Account December €19.8bn previous Economic Events EU Foreign Ministers Meet In Brussels Eurozone Current Account Contact Us For Spread Bet Sales:- 0044 (0) 207 894 8800 For CFD Sales/Traders:- 0044 (0) 207 894 8883 Email:- sales@cantorcapital.com Commentary Is Changing Client Access:- From March 1st, CFE active clients will continue to receive our timely notes Free Access:- From March 1st, non CFE clients will receive delayed notes To continue accessing our timely commentary please contact us to open and fund a CFD or Spread Betting account Footnotes Cantor Call, as at 7:00am Analyst Changes, as at 6:45am Times given are UK Local Time, (GMT or GMT +1 during BST) Insider Deals data compiled from Director/PDMR Shareholding forms published in the past 24 hours (ex weekends). 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