Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was up 134.87 points at 7,704.15, while the Hang Seng
reached the midpoint up 120.51 points at 12,646.31.

Crude oil was down 64 cents at $44.56 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

Republicans Thursday testimony on mark-to-market accounting has emerged. The not-so-subtle hint in all this is that the US should do what FDR did in the 1930s and repeal the mark-to-market rule.
A mark-to-market history lesson

Sunday

The world's biggest economies yesterday sanctioned an unprecedented cash injection into the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and pledged to launch a major overhaul of the way it distributes cash, as the fund prepares to bail out a further swathe of struggling governments.
G20 summit approves IMF cash boost

Next week, for the first time since February 1960, all of 49 years ago, Britains most-watched inflation measure will go negative. The retail prices index (RPI) is expected to be 0.5% down on a year earlier, so watch out for the flood of articles and reports it provokes on deflationary Britain.
Bank will need to act fast to prick inflation balloon

Tony Pidgley, the great sage of the housebuilding industry, has called the bottom of the market. Mr Pidgley, who made a fortune and his reputation for calling the 1990s housing crash correctly, told The Independent on Sunday: "We all accept that, give or take 5 per cent, the market is somewhere along the bottom [of its economic cycle]."
Housebuilding guru says bottom of the property market has been reached

City bankers fear that regulatory reforms to be revealed by the Financial Services Authority this week could force banks to quit London unless other countries agree to adopt the new standards too.
Fears of bank exodus sparked by FSA reforms

The bank, led by John Varley, its chief executive, is sounding out potential buyers of iShares, the division of the bank that specialises in exchange-traded funds and which accounts for a quarter of the funds under management of Barclays Global Investors (BGI).
Barclays seeks 4bn windfall

Monday

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Sunday that government officials are laying the groundwork for an economic revival and that a "depression" can be avoided - acknowledging however that a full recovery will take time and that there are still obstacles.
Bernanke: Recovery to begin next year

The country is displaying early symptoms of being trapped in a so-called debt deflation trap where families find themselves pushed further and further into the red every month, according to a Bank report published today.
Britain showing signs of heading towards 1930s-style depression, says Bank

Investors have restrained the amount they are willing to lend, banks have grown reluctant to entrust their cash to each other and levels of stress in the system have hit new peaks, according to the Bank's Quarterly Bulletin.
Bank of England warns tensions in banking system at fever pitch

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has agreed to keep oil production quotas unchanged, rather than risk damaging the global economy with a further output cut.
OPEC agrees not to cut crude oil output

China has lost tens of billions of dollars of its forex reserves through a poorly timed diversification into global equities just before world markets collapsed last year.
China lost billions on investments

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Midday Market Overview

A share that could do very well on the days to come already well on the UP today with large volume well over 10M.

I selected late this morning for the UPS thread .......

Master RSI - 16 Mar'09 - 11:58 - 33 of 48 edit
"UPS"
AFR 14.675 (14.50 / 14.75p )

Reason : Bouncing today with large volume already, after a sharp fall lately.
Good cash flow form the producing field, company hedge on the oil price
some time back at a much higher prices. Results Tuesday 31st March

End-of-day Market Overview