The chairman, Michael O’Leary, will be expected to comment – in his usual, expletive-strewn fashion, no doubt – on his battle with the European Union over alleged state subsidies for Ryanair’s operations at Charleroi airport in Belgium.If the gizmos being developed by Eckoh Technologies come to fruition, we will all be operating computers and internet terminals by voice rather than keyboard or mouse. The City will want to learn DMGT’s latest analysis of the advertising market. It has been depressed, but investors will take heart from any optimism in the DMGT camp.TODAY: Ryanair Holdings, the cut-price Irish airline, will be reporting after the jump in the oil price. This and more intense competition are expected to hit profits in the current year, which Deutsche Bank thinks fell in any case last year from €264.5m (£176m) to €227.3m.

Paul Richards, an analyst at Numis Securities, said: “Any update on the Telegraph bid situation will be the key short-term driver for the share price.”The half-year figures were signalled in a trading update in March. The battle for control of The Daily Telegraph newspaper group is expected by City analysts to be revived this week when Daily Mail & General Trust declares interim results. It is one of three bidders left in the running in the £600m auction, along with the Barclay brothers and the venture capital group 3i.DMGT has the greatest opportunities for synergies, but for the same reason is in the most danger of a reference to the Competition Commission. The buoyant construction industry and historically low brick production has improved prices, which is why Michelmersh’s float got away so successfully.

Brokers reckon the real potential is from the holes in the ground left once Michelmersh has cut its bricks. The sites can be turned over for residential development or, possibly even more lucratively, as landfill sites.. Maybe around the end of this year these new lines will be improving the results, he says, but until then there is the risk of more bad news.One of the more intriguing new arrivals on the stock market during the recent deluge has been Michelmersh Brick Holdings, which started trading last week having raised £5.2m. The company produces handmade and specialist bricks, and supplied developments at the British Library, and Paternoster Square, pictured, near St Paul’s in London. Michelmersh’s fund raising will pay for upping production to 85 million bricks a year, and give it the firepower for more acquisitions.

There were horrible profit warnings in November last year and again in March, and the shares are trading close to record lows – but few think the worst is over. According to one City specialist who has been in to see the company recently, the cash crisis that overtook the company prompted swingeing cuts to product development budgets, and that means it looks a little short of the new products it needs to take advantage of the improving economy. Since funding for the acquisition could well involve the issue of new shares, the company and its advisers will have been chuffed with the run up in Matrix stock last week. Speculators reckon interim results today could show an operating profit of more than £530,000 and prompt the company’s broker to upgrade its forecasts for the year.Blues at Euro ColourThinking of making a bet on a recovery at European Colour? The chemicals group makes pigments for printing ink used in the packaging industry, and has a newish management team trying to cultivate the City.