This morning Jefferies the investment bank provide guidance on BP Plc. Here at Spread Betting we like to use broker analysis and recommendations to formulate long term spread betting strategies. The idea is to leverage the expertise, time and effort that analysts put into their equity research and use the price target as a potential take profit level. However, before opening a spread betting position a technical look at the charts is also advised, the more research and planning the better. So, with regards to BP, we see that Jefferies have set a price target of 500p, and they have reiterated their Buy call:”At our 500p price target, we estimate BP would trade at a 2011 PER of 5.9x versus 8.8x for the global integrated sector.”The key valuation risk remains the final outcome of the Macondo spill cost, where we have a range of US$17-36bn (net, after tax).
Indiana Pacers vs Miami Heat 2012 NBA Playoff Series Predictions
The (0-0) Miami Heat’s [-8] quest for a title continues with game 1 of the 2012 NBA playoff series predictions’ Eastern Conference semifinals against the (0-0) Indiana Pacers [+8]. Inspired by LeBron James third Most Valuable Player Award announcement, Miami will try and get off on the right foot in today’s series opener.
“His goal is to be the best player at the end of the season,” said Dwyane Wade about LBJ winning the MVP award. “But if he can pick up a little history along the way, I don’t think he’s mad about that at all.”
This game’s opening tipoff is scheduled to get underway today at 3:30 PM ET live on ABC. According to 2012 NBA playoff series predictions experts, the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat are projected to combine and score an OVER/UNDER total of 187.5 points.
For the Pacers, they are coming off a 4-1 series victory over the Dwight Howard-less Orlando Magic in the first round. After dropping the opener 77-81, Indiana got a wake up call, closing out the series in straight games from that point forward.
Now, the Pacers will be taking on the betting odds favorites to win the 2012 NBA championship this year, and it’ll all start today in South Florida. In spite of the fact that a single points has yet to be scored in this series, there’s already plenty of drama and emotions involved.
This week, Pacers coach Frank Vogel was fined $15,000 for “comments about how the referees should officiate the Pacers’ upcoming series with the Heat,” said the NBA in a statement. Vogel called the Heat the biggest floppers in the league. Get your NBA Playoff predictions right here!
“It’ll be very interesting to see how the referees officiate the series and how much flopping they reward,” were some of the comments that led to Vogel’s monetary fine. “Every drive to the basket they have guys not making a play on the ball. But sliding in front of drivers. Often times they’re falling down even before contact is even being made. It’ll be interesting to see how the series is officiated.”
For the Heat, I’m sure those comments will be somewhere in their minds when they take the court today against Indy in this 2012 NBA playoff series predictions. Especially considering the Pacers defeated Miami in their last meeting, the Heat understand that this will be a much more physical and hard fought series than the last. Head coach Eric Spoelstra spoke about the evolution of a young, scrappy Pacers team.
“They’re a much different team in the last six weeks,” he said. “We feel we are, too. Watching some of our film from those last two games (against Indiana), it’s not really recognizable. Our energy level at that period of time, but also how we were playing offensively – there’s a lot of different things from our standpoint.”
OSH NBA playoff series predictions: Considering the Pacers vs Heat NBA Playoff odds, there’s no way I see the Pacers beating Miami in this series. In fact, if the Heat go on to win the NBA title this year, it would have been done by beating some of the worse teams in NBA history. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the only remaining team that could potentially push Miami to six games is the Boston Celtics. And even then, I believe Beantown would likely lose that series. In the meantime, I like Miami [-8] over the Pacers in game 1.
Offense to dominate in NY
Tampa Bay Rays shares the lead in the East of American League with Baltimore, while New York Yankees plays not so well recently and has 15 wins, 13 losses. Teams have similar stats in both offense and defense, they are scoring a lot and also allow many runs, both clubs have the same run difference of plus 12. Yankees is the leading team in MLB in home runs , also 6th in runs and 4th in batting average. NY will bat against Tampa’s James Shields, that already pitched once against Yankees this season and gave up 6 runs and 9 hits in 5 innings. He has only three strikeouts in that match. Shields has lost his last 3 starts when visiting Yankees . NY’s pitcher will be Ivan Nova, who is struggling so far and allowed 45 hits and 19 runs in 30 innings.
NBA Tuesday Picks: Free NBA Playoff Odds & Picks 5/8/12
Tuesday night features four games on the NBA TV schedule, and all four should be doozies. There are a number of teams that are fighting for survival, and you arent going to want to miss our NBA picks to see whether teams are going to get the job done!
NBA Playoffs Matchup: Orlando Magic @ Indiana Pacers Game 5Date: Tuesday, May 8th, 7:00 ETNBA Playoffs Lines: Indiana -10 (179.5)
The Magic continue to show fight in this series, and we are actually a bit surprised by that fact. They are overmatched at just about every position, and they know that if they lose this game, the likelihood is there that the team is going to be blown to bits from the top down within a week to suit the potentially departing Dwight Howard.
AUS Open Mon 16 – Sun 29 January 2012
The big and famous Grand Slam tournament has already started. The second part of 1st round will be played tomorrow. On this season there are many open questions: – Will men´s winner be from TOP4? – Who will be the biggest surpriser? – What does Federer which said he will be very hungry to take the title? – What about Nadal and his injury? – How about Murray and his mental strength? – Can Nole defend his title in the end? – What does Clijsters on this year? – Is Wozniacki ready to take his first big title? – How about ex-champions Sharapova (´08) and Serena Williams (´01,´03,´09,10)? – Who are the hardest challenger in women: Kvitova, Azarenka, Na Li or someone else? Our Read full post…