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Bonjour

Bonjour Hil, ca va?

Le bon apr-midi mon Petit F. Je suis tr bien merci mais tout fait fatigu

Et la carte de Vodafone UMTS, cela fonctionne bien?

Non. The SFR prepaid SIM was incompatible with the datacard despite it saying on the box that it was 2G and 3G compatible. Having wasted an age (and a total of around 80) running around trying to find somewhere that sold the damn thing and then trying to make it work, I eventually opted for the local cyber cafe at 5/hour. I think that it cost 2 to transfer some money, check the footy and cricket scores and find out who'd died (there's always somebody who dies when I'm away - last time it was my mum's cat).

Is Maclaurin the Vodafone chairman? He's on my hit list for a snotty email tomorrow!!!

Hil, quelle dommage! The name's Bond, Sir John Bond. I expect his mobile number starts 07 . . .

He took over from Lord MacLaurin this year.

Can you get my boots warm please MM? Just booked a week in Meribel at Crimbo.

:o)

only a week?

hils, good to see you back, hope yo had a bon vacation

Merci goforit,

By the way, I see the 1.8830 region as initial support. It looks to have bounced from there on 25/8. Biding time for now to see what it's going to do next.

h, also a pivot point in that area, hoping to close in that area

anybody having problems with fxcm 5/10 min charts?

Ha. I've beaten Le Petit F to posting Le Calendar this week.

Hilary, Welcome back and thanks for Le Calendar

Merci quand meme a tous les deux, 'ils et Dezza :)

Eso ha obtenido mconfund

Some of you may recall "Let's Parler Franglais!", a column by Miles Kington in the old Punch magazine. It gave us such gems as "une autre kettle du poisson" and "pas de proble, Squire". I feel a revival coming on, pour s.

Le Petit F (MM)

J'ai une grande enough probleme avec le laguage de candlestick! Havent written french for nearly fourty years orspoken much either. Trying to learn spanish at the moment and dont seem to be getting on very well, odviously getting too old!

Odviously :)

goforit:

J'ai une grande enough probleme avec le language de candlestick!

You've got it!

Pace likely to pick up on Wall Street
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NEW YORK (AFX) - After an extended summer vacation, Wall Street is expected to get back to its normal energetic pace this week with the release of August consumer price and retail sales reports.

Although trading volume on Wall Street will likely be light the first part of the week, as it was for much of the past month, the big economic data including the Commerce Department's retail sales figures and the Labor Department's consumer price index will come at the end of the week, Thursday and Friday respectively. The reports, being released just days before the Federal Reserve's Sept. 20 meeting on interest rates, are likely to awaken traders from their summer doldrums.

In the meantime, investors will get a look at how some of the big brokerages are faring as the economy slows, with reports due from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Morgan Stanley.

The market will also be waiting to see whether more companies issue warnings about third-quarter profits -- Wall Street was rattled last week by warnings from several homebuilders, all of which noted a precipitous drop in demand.

The Fed left interest rates unchanged at its last meeting but before that raised rates 17 straight times over two years. Many on Wall Street worry that the Fed might have overreached in its quest to contain inflation by throwing too much cold water on the economy.

Another factor in last week's erratic market was a disappointing wage inflation report from the government -- some analysts haven't ruled out a resumption of rate hikes by the Fed. The major indexes fell last week despite gains Friday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index falling 1.25 percent. The Dow Jones industrials slipped 0.63 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 0.92 percent.

Wall Street will also be watching the OPEC meeting in Vienna Monday, to see whether if the oil producers decide to adjust output. Oil has fallen from highs in July and dropped below $67 a barrel last week as domestic inventory figures showed increases and as tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions eased, at least for the time being.

A lighter-than-expected hurricane season and the end of the summer driving period also helped bring down prices, with light, sweet crude settling at $66.25 a barrel Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Monday will also see some sobering moments on Wall Street, as the markets observe the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Traders will mark the occasion with a minute-long silence before the opening bell. Though the Dow has recovered much of what it lost following the attacks, it hasn't closed above 11,000 since June 7, 2001.

ECONOMIC DATA

On Thursday, the Commerce Department is scheduled to release its monthly retail sales report, which many on Wall Street view as an up-to-date snapshot of consumer spending behavior. Then, on Friday, the Labor Department is set to release the consumer price index, the key measure of inflation. Wall Street will be watching this number closely as it tries to determine the Fed's next move.