MARKET INFO FOR THE WEEK – Monday 18 January 2010 Table of Contents 1. SA Dividends
equities paying out dividends and their last trading day.
2. IdealCFDs Events Calendar
Dates for all upcoming Seminars / Profit Centers and Trading
3. Company Calendar 4. SA Publications 5. Foreign Events for the week
Summary of daily foreign announcements for the week.
6. Weekly Briefing
The Weekly Briefing keeps you in touch with scheduled events
in the financial markets for the week ahead. (Non SA related).
The briefing includes a comprehensive listing of all UK results
due for the week, highlights from the US reporting week and
the worldwide economic calendar. Plus brief commentaries on
the week gone by and the expected big news.
7. FTSE 100 and Dow Jones
Analysis and view for the week on the FTSE 100 and Dow Jones,
supplied by IG Markets Investment Advisory.
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Technical Analysis 101 with Warren Peacock
Technical Analysis 101 with Warren Peacock
Chart training, price volume relationship
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Changes in standard of living among population groups in South Africa: 1998-2006
Profiling South African middle-class households : 1998-2006
Selected building statistics of the private sector as reported by local government institutions November
Statistics of civil cases for debt November 2009
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January Germany ZEW Survey (Current Situation)
January Germany ZEW Survey (Economic Sentiment)
January Philadelphia Fed Business Survey
Cheor the latest prices The data, recommendations, opinions, information, statements, and other content on or obtained as a result of the use of this email (the "Content") is for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute an offering of securities in any jurisdiction. None of the Content is or should be considered recommendations or opinions of Ideal CFDs. Ideal CFDs does not provide investment advice. Please seek the assistance of professionals regarding the evaluation of any Content. This message is intended for the addressee only, as it contains information that is privileged, private, and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are notified that any distribution, use, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately. . Weekly Briefing for the week commencing 18 January 2010 UK Results No major announcements scheduled Selected US No major announcements scheduled Economic Indicators Italy: November trade balance (1000 GMT); Japan: November capacity utilisation (0430 GMT), November final industrial UK Results FY: Chemring Group; 6M: Games Workshop Group, IG Group Holdings Selected US Q2: Parker Hannifin; Q3: Forest Laboratories; Q4: Citigroup, CSX Corp, Fastenal, First Horizon National Corp, International Business Economic Indicators UK: December CPI (0930 GMT), December RPI (0930 GMT); EU: January ZEW economic sentiment (1000 GMT); Germany:
January ZEW economic sentiment (1000 GMT); Japan: December consumer confidence (0500 GMT), November tertiary industry index (2350)
UK Results No major announcements scheduled Selected US Q1: Starbucks; Q2: Coach; Q3: Xilinx; Q4: Bank of America, Bank of New York, eBay, Hudson City, M&T Bank, Marshall & Ilsley, Morgan
Stanley, Northern Trust, SLM Corp, State Street Corp, TSYS, US Bancorp, Wells Fargo & Co
Economic Indicators UK: November average earnings (0930 GMT), November unemployment (0930 GMT), December labour market report (0930
GMT); US: December PPI (1330 GMT), December housing starts (1330 GMT), December building permits (1330 GMT), W/e 16/01 crude oil inventories
(1530 GMT); Germany: December PPI (0700 GMT); Italy: November industrial orders (0900 GMT), November current account (1005 GMT); Japan:
UK Results 6M: Angle, Begbies Traynor Group, NCC Group Selected US Q1: International Game Technology; Q2: Meredith Corp, Western Digital Corp; Q3: Legg Mason, Precision Castparts; Q4: American
Express Co, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp, Capital One Financial Corp, Comerica, Consolidated Edison, Fifth Third Bancorp, Freeport-McMoRan
Copper & Gold, Goldman Sachs, Google, Intuitive Surgical, KeyCorp, People’s United Financial, PNC Financial Services Group, PPG Industries, Southwest
Airlines, Union Pacific, UnitedHealth Group, Xerox Corp
Economic Indicators UK: December public finances (0930 GMT), December preliminary M4/M4 lending (0930 GMT), Quarterly CBI industrial trends
survey (1100 GMT); US: W/e 16/01 initial jobless claims (1330 GMT), December leading indicators (1500 GMT), January Philadelphia Fed manufacturing
survey (1500 GMT); November final leading indicator (0500 GMT)
Cheor the latest prices The data, recommendations, opinions, information, statements, and other content on or obtained as a result of the use of this email (the "Content") is for information purposes only and is not intended to constitute an offering of securities in any jurisdiction. None of the Content is or should be considered recommendations or opinions of Ideal CFDs. Ideal CFDs does not provide investment advice. Please seek the assistance of professionals regarding the evaluation of any Content. This message is intended for the addressee only, as it contains information that is privileged, private, and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are notified that any distribution, use, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately. UK Results No major announcements scheduled Selected US Q1: Air Products and Chemicals, Johnson Controls; Q4: BB&T Corp, Exelon Corp, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Huntington
Bancshares, Kimberly-Clark, McDonald’s Corp, Schlumberger, SunTrust
Economic Indicators UK: December retail sales (0930 GMT); EU: January Services PMI (0900 GMT), January Manufacturing PMI (0900 GMT),
January Composite PMI (0900 GMT); November industrial new orders (1000GMT); France: January manufacturing PMI (0800 GMT), January Services
PMI (0800 GMT); Germany: January manufacturing PMI (0830 GMT); Japan: November all industry activity index (0430 GMT)
Highlights of the past week
The year’s second full trading week brought some cheer to investors, with forecasts that the UK is on the brink of officially coming out of recession,
while retailers also reported upbeat festive sales. Tuesday’s fourth-quarter survey provided enough evidence to suggest the UK economy is now
growing, at least according to the BCC, while the following day’s NIESR estimate claimed UK GDP climbed 0.3% in the final three months of last year –
the first official estimate follows on 26 January. Supporting these surveys, ONS data showed that November’s industrial production output increased
slightly above expectations, climbing 0.4% against October’s figure.
Strong high street sales added to the positive sentiment. Tuesday’s BRC data confirmed that retailers experienced their strongest December since 2001
after like-for-like sales rose 4.2% compared to a year earlier. Outdoors retailer Blacks Leisure kick-started the upbeat statements on Monday,
reporting a like-for-like 12% rise in half-year sales, despite having closed 87 stores last year. The good news continued on Thursday with a number of
high street giants unveiling their latest figures. DSG International, owner of Currys and PC World, said like-for-like group sales jumped 8% year-on-
year in the three months to 9 January, while Argos and Homebase parent Home Retail Group upped its full-year forecast to £285 million after a Greggs, the bakery store, and discount clothing chain Primark also reported sales growth, with the latter seeing overall sales leap 19% in the quarter
to 2 January. HMV Group was the notable retailer to disappoint, after weak numbers from its Waterstones book stores dragged group like-for-like sales
down 1.2%. On Tuesday, Kraft’s attempted hostile takeover of Cadbury took another twist after the UK confectioner said its ‘outstanding’ performance
last year meant that the unwelcome bid does not represent value for shareholders. Chairman Roger Carr’s assertion that a takeover would also be
detrimental for its workforce was borne out on Wednesday after trade union Unite estimated 7000 UK jobs could go.
The Week Ahead
In the UK, the BoE will release minutes from its first monetary policy committee meeting of the year on Wednesday. Also of interest midweek will be the
announcement of labour market figures in the UK, and retail sales data, which closes the week out on Friday morning.
Another very quiet week in the UK is offset by a full reporting calendar in the US. The financial sector is especially busy, with quarterlies from Citigroup
on Tuesday, Bank of America, BNY Mellon and Morgan Stanley on Wednesday and AmEx and Goldman Sachs on Thursday. In-the-news Google
will also release Q4 figures on Thursday.
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AN INFORMATION THEORETIC APPROACH TO JOINT PROBABILISTIC FACE DETECTION AND TRACKING Department of InformaticsUniversity of ThessalonikiE-mail: eloutas,nikou,pitas @zeus.csd.auth.gr ABSTRACT Head orientation is calculated by using either feature basedmethods [6, 7] or appearance based methods [8, 9]. The latter rely A joint probabilistic face detection and tracking algorithm for com-
MARKET INFO FOR THE WEEK 
1. SA Di vidends Last Days Trade – ending 18 March 2010 
3. Company Calendar for week commencing 18 January 2010 
. Foreign Events for the week commencing 18 January 2010 
UK Results No major announcements scheduled 