Hello traders!

In the US tonight, stocks fell to their lows for the session Wednesday after news reports that a small aircraft had crashed into a New York city building.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 73 points to a session low of 11,794 on news of the crash. The index was last down 50 points at 11,817.

The Nasdaq Composite was down 12 points at 2,303 while the S&P 500 was off 6 points at 1,347.

See you in the morning with the latest........

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 18.02 points at 17,844.77, while the Nikkei was recently down 9.41 points at 16,391.16.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, was down 1 cent at $57.58 a barrel from $57.59 in late US trade overnight where it slipped to as low as $57.48, a level not seen since December 27th, 2005.

Early broker notes:

LOGICACMG UPGRADED TO 'BUY' VS 'NEUTRAL' AT GOLDMAN SACHS
BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS CUT TO 'HOLD' VS 'BUY' AT DEUTSCHE BANK
CARPHONE WAREHOUSE CUT TO 'HOLD' VS 'BUY' AT DEUTSCHE BANK
INFINEON STARTED 'OVERWEIGHT' AT JP MORGAN
CSR, ARM, STMICROELECTRONICS STARTED 'UNDERWEIGHT' AT JP MORGAN
SEVERN TRENT CUT TO 'UNDERWEIGHT' VS 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' AT MORGAN STANLEY

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all. Nice to see that BARC flew up to 714 at one point yesterday. Let's hope it gets there again today and carries on going up. All depends on speculation I suppose.