Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was down 90.86 points at 10,044.96, while the Hang
Seng reached the midpoint off 283.53 points at 18,606.15.

Crude oil traded at $71.41 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

Better-than-expected economic data from China is likely to raise hopes that the world's largest emerging economy could help to drag the rest of the world out of recession.
Chinese rise in industrial output raises hopes of end to global recession

A consensus is emerging that the industrialised world will start to grow again in the second-half of this year. A report by the respected British think tank NIESR said that the UK economy has already come out of recession.
CDS report: Markets have returned to pre-Lehman levels

Buyers are beginning to lose the upper hand in house sales as fresh evidence suggests that in some regions of the country sellers are successfully holding out for close to the asking price.
Buyers beware as confident home sellers start to hold out for the asking price

Sunday

The world's largest economies are stabilising and the unwinding of rescue measures should now be considered, finance ministers at the G8 conference said yesterday.
G8 leaders propose end to bank rescue packages

As analysts and media hailed the tentative emergence of green shoots last week, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman caused international shock with a prediction that the world economy would stagnate just as badly, and for just as long, as Japan's did in the 1990s.
Paul Krugman's fear for lost decade

George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, called for credit default swaps to be banned, saying these financial instruments had the potential to wreck individual companies and to bring down the banking system.
Soros calls for ban on credit default swaps

Monday

G8 finance ministers signalled cautious optimism on the weekend that the worst of the global financial crisis might be over and began discussing exit strategies to counter the threat of inflation.
G8 ministers see crisis easing

The sharp increase in both US bond yields and mortgage rates presents the Federal Reserve with two key decisions next week: whether to increase its purchases of Treasuries and whether to push back against expectations of early interest rate rises.
Fed faces key policy decisions

The CBI has sharply upgraded its growth forecasts and given warning that the Bank of England may begin raising interest rates by the end of the year, much sooner than widely expected.
Rates may rise later this year, warns CBI

Retailers hit by rocketing import costs will pass on about 10bn of price rises to British consumers this year, according to new research. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said the price rises could usher in the first non-food inflation for a decade and deal a body blow to any recovery in consumer spending.
Shops to pass on 10bn price rises

The factor that ought to trouble the markets at the moment is the rebound in oil and commodity prices. Could this derail the economic recovery which seems, to many observers, to be just around the corner?
The rebound in oil and commodity prices could derail the global economic recovery

Germany's top industrial group has warned that credit conditions are going from bad to worse across much of the country's manufacturing base, dashing hopes for a swift recovery.
German credit crunch deepens

Buying low and selling high is an investment clichaccording to long-term research into the value of distressed assets. It is not the price paid which determines its future value, but how well the business is integrated by the buyer, a study by the M&A Research Centre (MARC) at Cass Business School in London found.
M&A study refutes 'buy low, sell high' maxim

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