Hello traders!

In the US tonight, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 52 points at
12,686 at the unofficial 4 p.m. close. The S&P 500 dropped 1.2 points to 1,456,
while the Nasdaq Composite rose 6 points to 2,524.

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

G.

UPS (Added by Master RSI on Thu 22 Feb 08:46 pm)

AVM - Mid 124.675p

Reason - Has broken from a double bottom and Cup and Handle patterm following good news lately of high-grade gold resources were found following drilling at Durian and Osela in the Indonesia Bakan District. A profitable gold producer with GOLD going higher again lately

Chart for AVM

done at 12:08pm, the time when I realised of the good charting, but some business kept me busy for a while and price went to 127.75p, so I had to wait for the price to settle.

FCD 271p +8p

Was a "keep an eye" on Monday
Today's rise most likely due to a buy note from...

J P Morgan has initiated coverage with a buy note.Sets target of 380p

there seems to be a bit of resistance at 271p, but most likely tomorrow will be broken

Director Dealings - Thursday 22 February, 2007

ABB Ltd (ANN)Amvescap PLC (AVZ)Amvescap PLC (AVZ)Amvescap PLC (AVZ)Anglo American PLC (AAL)Arisaig Asia Fd LdBAE SYSTEMS PLC (BA.)Baggeridge Brick PLC (BGBK)Banco Sntndr Central (BNC)Bank of America Corp (BAC)Barclays PLC (BARC)Barr(A.G.) PLC (BAG)

British Am. Tobacco (BATS)Carpetright PLC (CPR)General Elec. (GEC)HBOS PLC (HBOS)HBOS PLC (HBOS)Highland Timber PLC (HTB)Imp. Chemical Inds. (ICI)Interco. Hotels Grp (IHG)JPMorgan Eur Fldg (JFF)JPMorgan Flem.Claver (JCH)Johnson Matthey PLC (JMAT)Jupiter Sec Enh Inc. (JSE)

M.P. Evans Group (MPE)Mitchells & Butlers (MAB)Northgate Info Solns (NIS)RHM plc (RHM)Rolls-Royce Grp Plc (RR.)Royal Bk Scot.Grp. (RBS)Scot.& Newcastle (SCTN)Shire Plc (SHP)Warner Estate Hldgs. (WNER)White Young Green (WHY)Workspace Grp PLC (WKP)iimia Investment Gp (IIG)

Morning all. Market reports:

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This is Money

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei closed up 79.63 points at 18,188.42, while the Hang Seng
ended the morning down 162.08 points at 20,647.15.

New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in April,
dropped six cents to $60.89 a barrel after advancing 88 cents to $60.95 a barrel in
late US trades.

Happy Friday!

G.

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