Hello traders!

A dull session in New York tonight where the Dow never really looked much like doing anything. Going into the close, the Dow is trading 6 points down with the Nasdaq 4 points ahead and the S&P500 about even.

Can't see where any sparks are going to come from tomorrow....

See you in the morning with the news.

G.

Good morning traders!

The US market showed little enthusiasm as mixed breadth figures, very light trading volumes and a lack of news left the indices relatively unchanged all day and closed them in mixed fashion.

The Dow closed off 4.88 points at 10,791.13 with the Nasdaq Composite 6.25 points tot he good at 2,082.91 and the S&P500 just 0.84 points higher at 1,206.14.

It is a similar uncertain picture in Asia today with the Nikkei marginally better and the Hang Seng slightly down.

Back with UK breaking news soon...

Happy trading!

G.

SAGE TO BUY WARSAW-BASED SYMFONIA FOR 10.3 MLN STG CASH

CARNIVAL SAYS AURORA TO BE OUT OF SERVICE LONGER THAN PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED

Morning punters.

VLK - US contract. Nice mover yesterday, not a bad chart.
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700065974I.html

HDG - warehouse acquisitions. Chart looks a bit vertical for my liking
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700076001I.html

QAR - recently listed, interesting business?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700076000I.html

BEG - this lot might have a future
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700075996I.html

MGCR - moving into China
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700096010I.html

UKC - sounds like trouble?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700126019I.html

BG. - interesting strategy update. Recently broke to new high
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700146022I.html

STP - agreement. This year's EPS forecst 6.58p, current price 16p. Hmmm, is this a gem?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700156027I.html

BUR - acquired 26% of Indian company
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700166030I.html

ROC/HNR/PMO, etc - strikes me as a decent flow rate!
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700236061I.html

BLZ - Azerbaijan
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150705516067I.html

RBG - seem to have bettered forecasts
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200502150700096013I.html

That's about it. Have a good day.

Morning all.

Morning all

I was just taking a look at MKS. After the attempted takeover a few months ago the price seem to be slowly and steadily heading south. In the last week its been heading north. I wonder if this will continue or is tempory?

Morning all.

Morning all.

Morning and good to see Big Al and his news updates back!

Longed AHT and AMO this morning, plus stuck some FOUR in the ISA - risky!

Morning bunny! ;-))

Morning All,

Out of RTR +6.

Let's hope as the day wears on we will get more action today!

Long SPI

All my e-mails at work our bouncing back - "There was a SMTP communication problem with the recipient's email server. Please contact your system administrator."

I contact the system administrator (an IT service company) and they blame the broadband supplier....

The internet connection is OK - is the system administrator blaming the broadband supplier becuase they don't know what wrong - or because the broadband supplier is the problem.

Anyone like to comment?

Which service provider are you with LW. I use NTL broadband and no probs., neighbour has BTYahoo and that is OK too.

I'm aol via BT and no probs here little woman.

BT Broadband, but they no longer supply help with setting up, so we had to get the company who looks after our IT to do.

The IT company say if we switch our broadband service (same cost) to them then we won't have any more problems. Should I believe them?

Oh boy little woman now that IS a question!
I suppose if they have been 'straight' with you generally up until
now in your dealings with them, there's no reason why they
shouldn't be believed.

little woman - it sounds like there is absolutely no problem with your connection. The error message that you received indicates that the problem lies at the recipients end. Most common cause is that the person you are e-mailing (or whatever) does not have there computer connected to the internet/web/whatever.

I sent myself to my e-mail address at home (I have my own domain) and it bounced 3 times. I waited 10 min and it went through! I went home and it was there. I sent a reply and when I got to work it that had arrived.

Perhaps the connection keeps breaking and its BTs fault?

We are paying for a business connection, not home connection - 65+ per month!

lw - now that does sound more like a network problem. Wouldnt have thought that it was an intermittent fault though.

Try the following:

From 'Start', go to 'All Programs/Accesories' and select 'Command Prompt'

Little black window appears.

Type 'ping' followed by a space then your DNS name or IP number.

See what the results are. This will tell you if your PC is actually connecting to the world via you ISP.

To get back to windows, type 'exit'

Afraid I can't tell you what all the numbers mean, but it will give you an indication as to whether you are connected or not. Hope this helps :>)

Your right LW those MKS shares have come back up well.

On what basis I don't know unless some people think that Rose Is doing well or Green will make another bid.

It's probably neither of those things but just the market rise In general and If we get a market pull back, down will come the MKS price with It

OK If people had got In at 330p though!

Price now at above It's takeover speculation price, at a guess I'd say the next move Is down, but thats only a hunch.

Thanks all,

We lost the internet connection at work so we all gave up and went home early!

Starfrog if the problem is still there in the morning I'll try what you suggest.

Stan - I hope not, I thought Green offered 3.80(?). I thought if it countinued back down he'd come back and this time be successful. Personally I don't think Rose is doing a very good job, but if the price doesn't hold he may not be there too long!