By William Lyons
Published Date: 27 January 2008
THE FTSE-100 restored much of its losses in a turbulent week that included a swingeing 0.75% cut in US interest rates and a package of tax cuts from George Bush. The index closed at 5,869, down just 0.55% over the week.
Sentiment will be tested over the coming days when the City’s full-year results season kicks off with figures from Royal Dutch Shell and AstraZeneca.
Royal Dutch Shell is expected to reveal full-year profits of more than £13.2bn on Thursday despite a tough end to 2007 for the oil major.
Consensus forecasts put fourth-quarter earnings at £2.95bn as higher operating costs and lower refining margins bite, even though oil prices soared to $100 a barrel. This would leave full-year earnings at £13.5bn, 5% ahead of 2006.
Drugs giant AstraZeneca unveils 2007 results on Thursday with profits under pressure from patent challenges to its top-selling treatments. The company’s three leading products are facing competition from rival manufacturers looking to market generic copies.
Retail chain WHSmith is expected to unveil a major share buy back programme next week. The company is preparing to release a Christmas trading update.
WHSmith is less exposed to downturn in high street spending as most of its outlets are located in railway stations and airports where customers have little choice about buying from rivals.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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