Hello traders!

In the US tonight, The Dow closed up 34.54 points at 12,953.94. The Dow earlier
reached a new record intraday high of 12,989.

The S&P 500 fell 0.51 point to 1,480.42, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.87
points to 2,524.54.

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

G.

Director Dealings - Tuesday 24 April, 2007

AMEC PLC (AMEC)Aberdeen Dev Cap PLC (AVC)Aberdeen New Thai IT (ANW)Alliance Boots plc (AB.)Alltracel Pharm Plc (AP.)BAE SYSTEMS PLC (BA.)BT Group PLC (BT.A)Balfour Beatty PLC (BBY)Bank of America Corp (BAC)Belgravium Tech (BVM)Berkeley Grp Hlds (BKG)Boot(Henry) PLC (BHY)Boot(Henry) PLC (BHY)Brammer PLC (BRAM)British Assets Trust (BSET)British Assets Trust (BSET)British Assets Trust (BSET)British Polythene (BPI)Brixton PLC (BXTN)Bunzl PLC (BNZL)CDS Oil & Gas Group (CDS)

Caledonia Inv PLC (CLDN)Capital & Regional (CAL)Carillion PLC (CLLN)Derwent London PLC (DLN)Drax Group Plc (DRX)Elan Corporation PLC (ELA)Framlington Income (FRNC)GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK)Hays PLC (HAS)IQE PLC (IQE)ITM Power PLC (ITM)Informa PLC (INF)Irish Life&Permanent (IPM)JPMorgan Claver IT (JCH)Johnston Press PLC (JPR)Jourdan PLC (JDR)Kier Group PLC (KIE)Kirkland Lake Gold (KGI)Law Debenture Corp (LWDB)Legal & General Grp (LGEN)LogicaCMG PLC (LOG)

Lok'n Store Group (LOK)Molins PLC (MLIN)Motive Television PLC (MTV)Murray Inc Trust PLC (MUT)Murray Intnl Trust (MYI)New India In Tst PLC (NII)Next PLC (NXT)Northbridge Ind Serv (NBI)Patsystems PLC (PTS)Ricardo PLC (RCDO)Rio Tinto (RIO)Sagentia Group AG (SGA)Savills PLC (SVS)Sigma Capital Group (SGM)Sovereign Oilfield (SOGP)Supercart PLC (SC.)UTV PLC (UTV)United BusinessMedia (UBM)Wood Group (John)PLC (WG.)Xaar PLC (XAR)

Morning all. Market reports:

Telegraph
Telegraph (Bloomberg summary)
The Times
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money

NIKKEI	AUSTRALIA	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning down 134.46 points at 20,438.34,
while the Nikkei reached the midpoint 167.18 points lower at 17,284.59.

New York's main oil futures contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June, was
unchanged at $64.58 per barrel, after falling $1.31 in US trade overnight.

Happy trading!

G.

OUTLOOK Autonomy Q1 profit to jump on new business winsOUTLOOK Reuters to report Q1 sales slideOUTLOOK GlaxoSmithKline Q1 profits seen dipping 7 pctOUTLOOK Shire to report solid Q1; expectations cloudy

BP. downgraded to hold from buy - Deutsche Bank
NRK downgraded to sell from hold - Deutsche Bank
YELL buy - target 580 from 700 - ABN Amro

Asian markets summary

AAL buy - target 3160 - Merrill Lynch
ARM outperform - target 160 - Credit Suisse
BSY sell - target 500 - Citigroup
BVIC reiterated equal-weight - target 330 from 290 - Lehman Brothers
IPO reiterated overweight - target 185 - Lehman Brothers
SHP upgraded to buy from hold - Citigroup

Asian economic and corporate news summary

MRW reiterated neutral - Merrill Lynch

The Wednesday Press Roundup

GSK upgraded to buy from hold - Deutsche Bank
HAS upgraded to buy from neutral - target 185 - Goldman Sachs
HOME reiterated underweight -target 420 - JP Morgan
VOD reiterated buy - target 160 from 165 - Merrill Lynch

STOCKWATCH BP downgraded to 'hold' from 'buy' at Deutsche Bank, tgt 580 penceLondon shares outlook - Flat to higher after NY gains; Asia weak, results key

STOCKWATCH Northern Rock cut to 'sell' from 'hold' at Deutsche Bank

Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide

Tokyo shares close lower on weak US data after cautious trade

STOCKWATCH Shire upgraded to 'buy' vs 'hold' at Citigroup; solid Q1 expected

Good morning all
"UPS" (Added by Master RSI on Wed 25 Apr 07:52 am)

EPD - Mid 19.675p

Reason - Bulk sampling update today with CEO saying: "the increase in grade from last year to this, reflects, amongst other items, improved efficiencies as a result of the plant upgrade we introduced late last year

Chart for EPD

First Day of Dealings