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Morning All.

Good morning traders!

In the US Friday, the Dow rose 28 points to 15,400, the Nasdaq added 51 points at
3,914 and the S&P500 gained 12 points at 1,745.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 100 points at 14,661 and the Hang Seng
ahead 137 points at 23,477.

WTI crude oil traded at $100.81 a barrel and Brent crude at $109.94.

Gold settled at $1,314 an ounce.

Happy Monday!

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UK Stocks-Factors to watch on Monday, Oct. 21

LONDON | Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:57am BST
Oct 21 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 index is seen opening up as much as 29 points, or 0.4 percent higher, on Monday, according to financial bookmakers. For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on

* Britain's top share index hit a one-month high on Friday, with miners cheered by news of improving economic growth in China and with insurer Prudential boosted by buoyant business at an Asia-focused peer.

Nikkei rises to 3-wk high on expectations Fed will delay stimulus cut

Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:12am BST
TOKYO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose
to a three-week high on Monday on expectations the U.S. Federal
Reserve will delay trimming its economic stimulus programme
following a 16-day government shutdown.

The Nikkei added 0.9 percent to 14,693.57 after climbing as
high as 14,727.85 earlier, the highest since Sept. 27. The Topix
advanced 0.6 percent to 1,212.36, with 30 of its 33
subsectors posting gains.

European Factors to Watch-Shares seen mixed near 5-year highs

Greenspan fears US government set for more debt stalemate

that a repeat of the crisis that brought the country close to default is "perfectly conceivable".

He told the BBC that he had not seen another situation in Washington where "compromise" seemed so far away.

Mr Greenspan confessed to sympathies with the aims of the Tea Party, the Republican faction that fought the government during debt ceiling talks.

But the former central banker said the movement's tactics were "undemocratic".

Mr Greenspan, the most powerful figure in economic policy when he ran the Fed between 1987 to 2006, spoke to the BBC's Evan Davis ahead of publication of his new book, The Map and the Territory.

German PPI m/m 0.3% 0.1% -0.1%

FTSE100 moves slightly higher at midday with G4S leading

US STOCKS-Futures drift near record ahead of data, earnings

Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:27pm BST

* September home resales data expected at 1400 GMT

* Netflix to report earnings after the closing bell

* Futures: Dow up 9 pts, S&P flat, Nasdaq up 6 pts

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures were little changed in light trading on Monday following a record closing high on the S&P 500 last week, as a week full of economic data and key corporateearnings gets under way.

* The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Friday to cap its biggest weekly gain in three months on stronger-than-expected earnings from companies including Google and Morgan Stanley.

* Financial stocks could be in focus with JPMorgan Chase & Co in a tentative $13 billion deal with the U.S. government to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans JPMorgan, and the banks it bought during the financial crisis, sold to investors.

* Japan's exports rose but were well short of expectations in September, a sign that slowing demand in Asia is taking the shine off Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stimulus policies and clouding the outlook for a budding economic recovery.

* S&P 500 futures were flat and little changed in terms of fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures rose 9 points and Nasdaq 100 futures added 6 points.

* Companies expected to report earnings on Monday include Netflix and Dow component McDonald's.

* The National Association of Realtors releases existing home sales for September at 10 a.m. (1400 GMT). Economists in a Reuters survey forecast a 5.30 million annualized unit total versus 5.48 million annualized units in August.

CAD Wholesale Sales m/m 0.5% 0.6% 1.5%

USD Existing Home Sales 5.29M 5.31M 5.48M

End-of-day Market Overview

Jump in London property asking prices 'unsustainable' - Rightmove

(Reuters) - Asking prices for homes in London jumped 10.2 percent between early September and early October, property website Rightmove said on Monday, fanning concern that a bubble may be forming in the capital.

The rise - the biggest monthly jump since the series began in 2002 - took annual price growth to 13.8 percent, more than five times the rate of inflation.

Widespread aspirations to home ownership in Britain make property a major driver of the economy and a housing market crash could shatter the recovery which has only recently begun to take hold in Britain, years after the global credit crisis undermined its banking sector.