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To QE or not to QE? This is not an issue for this week's meeting of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, which will keep things ticking along as before, but at some stage soon the Bank of England must decide when and how to start removing the extraordinarily accommodative monetary conditions that have ruled for the last year or more.
Interest rate rises may come sooner than you think

The Government may be forced to offer higher coupon rates on gilts, increasing still further the cost of servicing the national debt, in an attempt to attract investors as the Chancellor seeks to sell a record 225 billion tranche of debt.
Cash-strapped Treasury contemplates shining up gilts

The European Central Bank has given its clearest warning to date that there will be no EU bail-out for Greece if it fails to control its spiralling deficit, raising the stakes in a game of brinkmanship over the future of the euro.
Euro brinkmanship escalates as ECB shuts door on Greek bail-out

Almost two-thirds of people in Iceland are expected to vote against repaying a 3.8bn (3.4bn) debt to Britain and the Netherlands to compensate for the money lost in Icesave accounts, according to a poll published today. The Icelandic government has set 20 February as the date for the vote and recalled parliament to deal with the crisis.
Iceland will vote against repaying UK and Netherlands in referendum, poll suggests

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Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow closed up 2 points at 10,574, the Nasdaq lost 8
points at 2,301 and the S&P500 gained a point at 1,137.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was down 72.4 points at 10,659.05, while the Hang
Seng ended the morning off 46.56 points at 22,370.11.

Crude oil traded at $82.69 a barrel on Nymex.

Gold settled at $1,133 an ounce.

Happy Thursday!

G.

ARM RBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 220 from 180
GSK Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 1420 from 1300
ITV Goldman: upgraded to conviction buy, tp raised to 70 from 63
RSA Citigroup: upgraded to buy from hold, tp raised to 140 from 132
SHP Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 1425 from 1215
SN. Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 785 from 570
STAN Citigroup: upgraded to buy from hold
YELL Goldman: downgraded to sell

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