Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng was recently up 1.8 points at 17,990.66, while the Nikkei stood at 16,724.38, up 187.84 points.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for November delivery, was up 43 cents at $59.00 a barrel from $58.57 in late US trade Friday.

Early broker notes:

SPORTINGBET CUT TO 'REDUCE' VS 'NEUTRAL' AT UBS
AUTONOMY STARTED 'HOLD' AT DEUTSCHE BANK, PRICE TARGET 510P
ITV UPGRADED TO 'OVERWEIGHT' VS 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' AT MORGAN STANLEY
WH SMITH DOWNGRADED TO 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' FROM 'OVERWEIGHT' BY LEHMAN, TARGET 332P
KINGFISHER CUT TO 'UNDERWEIGHT' VS 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' AT MORGAN STANLEY


SEA CONTAINERS FILES FOR CHAPTER 11

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all.

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