Metals - Gold gains on ECB announcement, reaction to US employment data muted

Precious Metals Summary - London PM Fixings

OUTLOOK UK Water utilities to report FY results next week

Kyoto
Just in case you did not know, your charts for
NIKKEI AUSTRALIA SHANGHAI HANG SENG
have been the same ones since this tuesday.
I only noticed when doing some research.
As always, Thanks for your good work.

End-of-day Market Roundup

Have a great weekend all!

G.

UK small caps close sharply higher; Biofuels soars on banking agreement

Precious Metals Summary - London Close

Director Dealings - Friday 1 June 2007

API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)API Group PLC (API)Alphameric PLC (ALM)Amlin plc (AML)Avis Europe PLC (AVE)Axon Group PLC (AXO)BATM Advanced Comm (BVC)BRIT Ins Hldgs (BRE)Barr(A.G.) PLC (BAG)Barratt Developments (BDEV)Biocompatibles Intl. (BII)Caledonia Inv PLC (CLDN)Capita Group PLC (CPI)

Carluccio's PLC (CARL)Close Bros Grp PLC (CBG)Compass Group PLC (CPG)Computacenter (CCC)First Quantum Min Ld (FQM)Georgica PLC (GGA)Great Portland Ests. (GPOR)Great Portland Ests. (GPOR)HaiKe Chemical Group (HAIK)Hanson PLC (HNS)Henderson Group plc (HGI)Henderson Group plc (HGI)Invensys PLC (ISYS)K3 Bus Tech Grp PLC (KBT)KBC Advanced Tech (KBC)McInerney Hldgs PLC (MCI)Metal-Tech Ltd (MTT)MonEuroSmllCosTst (MTE)Montrusco Bolton CanNevsky Fund Limited

Northern Foods PLC (NFDS)OMG Opportunities 2xOMG Opps Fd LdPaddy Power plc (PAP)Panther Securities (PNS)Parkwood Holdings (PKW)Prudential PLC (PRU)Reckitt Benckiser (RB.)RobertWisemanDairies (RWD)RobertWisemanDairies (RWD)RobertWisemanDairies (RWD)RobertWisemanDairies (RWD)Rotork PLC (ROR)Royal Bk Scot.Grp. (RBS)Sainsbury(J) PLC (SBRY)The Vitec Group PLC (VTC)Travis Perkins PLC (TPK)United Drug PLC (UDG)Warner Estate Hldgs. (WNER)Woolworths Group PLC (WLW)

Friday's market reports:

Telegraph
Telegraph (Bloomberg summary)
The Times
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money

Mike Ashley, the billionaire sports retailer, cost Sports Direct shareholders up to 200,000 when he resorted to using a game of spoof to settle a disputed bill - and lost.

Mr Ashley proposed the game of spoof after failing to agree on who should pay legal fees incurred by Merrill Lynch in connection with the Sport Direct flotation. The game of chance is hugely popular with City traders.

Revealed: how billionaire settled bill row