Supermum is taking a hard-earned break this week but will return with her
Weekly Chart View next weekend.

Good hunting!

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was up 163.02 points at 10,107.57, while the Hang
Seng ended the morning up 263.43 points at 20,246.22.

Crude oil traded at $68.75 a barrel on Nymex.

Happy Monday!

G.

Morning all. Friday's market reports:

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

Saturday

Equity strategists said that yesterdays more modest rise could signal that investors are about to pause for breath in the near term, but many predicted a further push higher as optimism continues to grow over an emerging global economic upturn.
Stock market scores ten-day winning streak

Economic output shrank by 5.6pc in the 12 months to the middle of the year, according to official figures which shattered hopes that the recovery has already begun.
British economic collapse rivals Great Depression

Bank of China has begun offering mortgages to British borrowers, who are finding it difficult to get loans from leading UK lenders. The worlds third-largest bank is lending at lower rates than many of the deals available from more established UK lenders. It has previously focused on lending to the Chinese community within the UK.
Bank of China starts to offer mortgages in the UK

It's the hot new thing on Wall Street, a way for a handful of traders to master the stock market, peek at investors' orders and, critics say, even subtly manipulate share prices. It is called high-frequency trading--and it is suddenly one of the most talked-about and mysterious forces in the markets.
Stock traders find speed pays, in milliseconds

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is to star in a new online animated series designed to teach a new generation of American children about financial responsibility.
Warren Buffett to star in business cartoon

Sunday

The unprecedented programme of quantitative easing could be coming to an end, with just one more week of the Bank of England buying back government bonds, economists warned.
Quantitative easing only one week to run, economists warn

The UK is issuing more debt as a share of GDP than any major economy. We're borrowing twice as much in 2009 as France and Germany. In recent months, banana-republic style, the Bank of England itself has bought around half of all gilts issued. Then on Thursday, following the biggest auction of index-linked sovereign debt in UK history, a massive dispute broke out, with investors publicly accusing the authorities of bad faith after the Bank hinted, just 20 minutes after the sale had closed, that it may soon stop buying gilts.
Huge gilts row barely registers as the UK sleepwalks into stagnation

Several of the sectors top players including BP, Royal Dutch Shell and BG Group will announce quarterly earnings this week, revealing the extent of the damage wrought by a combination of recession, the falling value of gas and an oil price that remains far below the record levels it reached a year ago.
UK oil giants profits plunge $10bn

A RADICAL new report commissioned by Alistair Darling, the chancellor, will this week call for the government to consider passing parts of the welfare state into the private sector.
Insurers 17bn welfare offer

The increase in VAT is under review, one of the most senior cabinet members has suggested, as a leading businessman said only a "congenital idiot" would implement a rise on New Year's day.
VAT increase under review, says Harriet Harman

International concern about volatile food and energy prices is fuelling a crackdown on commodity markets.
Speculators reap the whirlwind

Monday

The British economys path to recovery will be far more protracted than that of previous recessions, a leading forecaster warned today.
British recovery to be U-shaped at the best

Are we on the way out of recession or still stuck in it? Economists have been falling over themselves to be the first to call the recovery, but it is beginning to look as though they are too early.
Recovery could catch a cold from swine flu - or a range of other nasties

Housing slump could have bottomed outHouse prices were unchanged in July for the third month running, housing market analyst Hometrack said today, suggesting the slump in the property sector may finally have come to an end.
Housing slump could have bottomed out

European lenders fear a surge in consumer debt defaults as the US credit card crisis spreads across the Atlantic. The IMF estimates that 7% of the $2,467bn of consumer debt in Europe will be lost, with much of that falling in the UK.
Europe braced for credit card defaults

All is not well at the London Metal Exchange where the name of "Mr Copper" is once again being whispered among traders.
As copper price rises, rumours abound of market manipulators

NIKKEI 225	AUSTRALIA ASX200	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

KOSPI	VIX	GOLD	NYMEX CRUDE

BT.A ING: initiated hold, tp 115
LLOY Nomura: upgraded to buy from reduce
LMI Goldman: upgraded to neutral from sell
PSON RBS: reiterated sell, tp cut to 535 from 560
TATE Panmure: upgraded to hold from sell, tp raised to 355 from 250
VOD S&P: upgraded to hold from sell

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