It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK with the number for 2007 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent to UK profitability for 2007.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK.

It's a savage profit warning for the UK, with numbers for 2006/07 likely to shift materially below current expectations. You are probably looking at cuts of between 30 and 50 percent.

It makes it far more difficult for Sprint Nextel to argue for a valuation materially below current trading levels of Nextel Partners, ... Nextel Partners has a far superior growth profile than Alamosa.

Investor expectations about profit gains at brokerages grew stronger.