Hello traders!

In the US tonight, the DJIA was up 67.72 points at 8,916, while the S&P500
gained 3.45 points at 954.58 and the Nasdq Composite added 6.91 points
at 1,916.

Crude oil jumped to $65.50 a barrel on Nymex.

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

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was up 92.71 points at 9,744.73, while the Hang
Seng ended the morning session up 54.94 points at 19,556.67.

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all. Market reports:

Telegraph
The Times
The Times (Need to know)
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money

The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, is seeing tentative signs of stabilisation in the US economy.
US economy beginning to stabilise, says Bernanke

Credit rating agencies could face tough new rules that would stop them winning lucrative advisory work as a punishment for failing to detect systemic problems in the markets ahead of last autumn's collapse.
US to clamp down on ratings agencies

Banks which have been bailed out by European governments will be forced to shrink their businesses and sell off certain assets under new guidance to be issued by the EU on Thursday.
State funded banks face asset sales under new EU rules

Where, oh, where do we place the Bloomberg news agency on this visual thesaurus, an interactive tool from Thinkmap that allows us to discover the connections between words in a visually captivating display? Words like GULLIBLE.
Bloomerberg.comedy

NIKKEI 225	AUSTRALIA ASX200	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

KOSPI	VIX	GOLD	NYMEX CRUDE

BSY JPMorgan: upgraded to neutral from underweight, tp raised to 575 from 500
DCG JPMorgan: upgraded to neutral from underweight, tp raised to 325 from 240
DSGI HSBC: reiterated neutral, tp raised to 26 from 21
EMG Morgan Stanley: reiterated equalweight, tp raised to 275 from 200
FLTR UBS: reiterated neutral, tp raised to 125 from 115
IGG UBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 325 from 275
ITV JPMorgan: reiterated overweight
LAND UBS: reiterated neutral, tp cut to 500 from 525
MKS Bernstein: reiterated market perform, tp raised to 410 from 350
MRW Bernstein: reiterated market perform, tp raised to 300 from 260
MRW JPMorgan: reiterated neutral, tp raised to 295 from 260
NXT Bernstein: reiterated market perform, tp raised to 1850 from 1750
NXT ING: reiterated sell, tp raised to 1360 from 1270
PTEC Jeffries: reiterated buy, tp cut to 500 from 700
SVT Merrill: reiterated neutral, tp cut to 1120 from 1160

Twitter Updates
more >>

End-of-day Market Overview