Morning all. Friday's market reports:

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

Saturday

Currency speculators betting on a rise in US interest rates after the Federal Reserve's decision to increase the rate at which it lends to banks have pushed the dollar to hit nine-month highs against sterling and the euro.
Dollar boosted as speculators bet on Fed raising rates

But beyond the market speculation lies a longer-term question that is tormenting the 16 euro-zone nations: Could the Greek crisis be the beginning of the end for the common currency, just eight years after its first notes and coins were issued? Might the doubts and pressures that are driving the euro's value downward lead to the eventual implosion of Europe's most concrete achievement thus far?
Greek Crisis Fallout: Could the Euro's Days Be Numbered?

A fall in the cost of speculating in currencies is allowing hedge funds to make multimillion-pound bets against the euro "for just the price of a cup of coffee in Starbucks", one of Britain's leading investment managers warned today.
'Traders can gamble on the euro for the price of a cup of coffee in Starbucks'

It has really only been a matter of weeks since the Tokyo Stock Exchange - Asia's biggest bourse - gained Arrowhead, or what you could call a 21st-century trading platform. Already, however, traders have shaken off their usual jaded and cynical view of the comparitively arcane world of Japan-based stock trading.
Asian electronic trading: you aint seen nothing yet

Sunday

Britain's anaemic economic recovery could be slightly stronger than initial figures revealed, official data published this week are expected to show. Economists predict the Office for National Statistics will say on Friday the economy grew 0.2pc in the fourth quarter of 2009, and not the 0.1pc it said when it published its first estimate last month.
UK growth figures may be revised upwards

Monday

The Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, insisted today that his country was not looking for EU "handouts" to solve its debt crisis. But he said that to avoid succumbing to a bailout the country needed the political backing of other EU nations to restore credibility with investors.
Greece not looking for EU handouts with debt crisis, says Papandreou

Dubai World will present its banks with a restructuring proposal for its $22 billion (13.5 billion) debts by the end of next month. An insider close to the Dubai Government said that the struggling state-owned conglomerate will finalise a complete valuation of the groups assets by the end of February and will have a restructuring offer on the table within the following four weeks.
Dubai World on verge of presenting debt proposal

While the discount clothing retailer Primark will today provide in its interim trading statement further evidence of its continued growth , it is the vote on Speciality Retail Group's (SRG) company voluntary arrangement (CVA) tomorrow that will have wider significance for a host of struggling chains.
Retailers await crucial vote by SRG creditors

Acision flotation ... LVG rescue ... TUI talks ...
Need to know

The global financial crisis marked the end of the dominance of free-market capitalism, and even the IMF is now questioning the ideology behind it.
The credit crunch has shattered America's 'neoliberal dream'

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Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was last up 267.31 points at 10,390.89, while the Hang
Seng ended the morning ahead 518.99 points (2.6%) at 20,413.01.

Gold settled at $1,124 an ounce.

Crude oil traded at $80.42 a barrel on Nymex.

Happy Monday!

G.

Midday Market Overview

A share for the "UPS"

CMS 14.875p ( 14.75 / 15p )
Results on Thursday looking undervalued on EPS of 2.55p for the Year and a high yield, Interim already out with 1.22p. Rising lately after overhang being cleared

End-of-day Market Overview