Hello traders....

Looks like a sedate day Friday in comparison... The Dow looks to be recovering some poise in late trading which will help steady the ship.

Back with some of the breaking news in the morning.

G.

Good morning traders!

The US market showed little follow through last night, despite another batch of good earnings reports, but found enough buying support in late trading to close in split fashion.

The Dow closed 31.19 points down at 10,467.40 with the Nasdaq Composite just 1.06 points up at 2,047.15 and the S&P500 0.48 points better at 1,174.55.

In Asia, both Tokyo and Hong Kong were trading much lower this morning.

Back with UK breaking news in a mo ......

Happy Friday!

G.

Procter & Gamble to buy Gillette for around $57bn

GKN CUT TO 'UNDERPERFORM' FROM 'NEUTRAL', TARGET CUT TO 230P AT CSFB

morning all

Morning all and you Mike and IanT :-)

long BBY BUR TRY WLW S&P will be topping up on some more BUR during the day for a longer term hold....

Mega...

BAA STICKS WITH 6 PCT FY PASSENGER GROWTH TARGET

JACQUES VERT SAYS ALLDERS OWES IT 740,000 STG

short cable @66 s/l on and the bugger has started to go north,will keep it open though :-)

Morning all.

morning all

covered half WLW +2.5

covered some more WLW +3

covered cable short @ 60

long ARM 100.5 s/l on

ROK is having a great run ....heading for 5+

Maybe not

long more BUR @474.5 s/l on

RSA.
Yesterday there was a string of 'AT' trades for 7500 shares, seems to be continuing today. Someone quietly picking up a load of stock via a 'robot' order?

long cable @31 s/l on

Take care on the RSA Opto.
Nam

covered cable @61 :-)

RSA 7500 trades still going through. 10 at 15.04pm.
Been in these some while Nam, just short of break even, moving nicely before this latest news.

long S&P 72.7 s/l on

RSA up from 74-78p range end of last year and has come a long way in 3 weeks. In at just below 70p intra last year and now out. If backtrack to below 80p may re-dabble but looks slightly pricey to me.

long CABLE 805 s/l on

Could be wrong on RSA Nam (would not be the first time) but it does appear to have some support around this mark.

covered CABLE 817

Shame the week petered out like that...

Got out of ALLD for a few but gave up a couple of points on DGE that I'd paired with. Serves me right for being such a smart arse.... ;-)

Have a good weekend all!

Look out for goodies on the Monday thread which should be available to you on Sunday afternoon....

G.