S&P Futures

Alan Greenspan did his normal trick and gave the U.S. markets the jitters. This time it was when he said that the banks are already prepared for higher interest rates. The DOW was down 10 points when he started to speak and quickly fell to finish -124 saved by the bell from dropping further.

Autonomy reported a 111 percent rise in first quarter profit to $2.692 million helped by a 37 percent jump in revenues.

Prudential first-quarter sales rose six percent to 433 million pounds beating market expectations by 30 million

Egg Internet bank partly owned by the Prudential said it made a smaller first-quarter loss to 4.9 million pound as it cut costs

Reuters Group reported a 8.4 percent fall in first-quarter core subscription said the decline should slow to 6-6.5 percent in the second quarter slightly ahead of market forecasts.

Autonomy (F), Colt Telecom (F), Deal Media (F), Reuters (F),

Maverick Entertainment (I), NWD (I), Superscape (I)

Anglo American (AGM), British American Tobacco (AGM), Bioprogress (AGM), British Vita (AGM), Domnick Hunter (AGM), Jurys Doyle Hotel (AGM), Low & Bonar (AGM), SBS (AGM), Tribune Trust (AGM), XP Power (AGM),

Prudential (Trading)

08:30 BoE Minutes of April 7/8 meeting 08:45 Chancellor Brown Speaks at BCC Conference

Coca-Cola,Ford Motor, Honeywell International,

Colgate-Palmolive, Eastman Kodak, Sears Roebuc,

Altera, Bank of New York, Morgan Chase,Chiron,

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Dana, General Dynamics, United Technologies, Qualcomm, Starbucks, Capital One Financial

13:30 New mortgage applications

19:00 Fed's Beige Book

Infineon Technologies AG, Sagem,

Remy Cointreau

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