Thursday preview: Deluge of updates expected

Suspicions that the City is trying to get all of its business out of the way before the onset of the London Olympics are supported by the barrage of company results due on Thursday.

Suspicions that the City is trying to get all of its business out of the way before the onset of the London Olympics are supported by the barrage of company results due on Thursday.

Among the heavyweights expected to report are Astra, BG, BSkyB, Centrica, Compass, Capital Shopping, Intertek, Invensys, ITV, Lloyds Banking, ITV, National Express, Qinetiq, Royal Dutch Shell, Reed Elsevier, Rolls-Royce, SABMiller, Tate & Lyle, Travis Perkins and Unilever.

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