In Asia, the Hang Seng was up 40.09 points at 14,525.97 at the break, with the Nikkei recently trrading down 47.28 points at 13,373.26.
Oil was in the rise again with New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November up $1.16 at $63.79 a barrel from its close of $62.63 in US trading on Friday where it had lost 45 cents.
Early brokers notes and news:
Capita Group upgraded to 'buy' vs 'hold' at Deutsche Bank
Pursuit Dynamics gets first European licensee for PDX Sonic product
EASYNET CONFIRMS HAS RECEIVED INFORMAL BID APPROACH
Tried to buy the Ingdirect domain, but it wouldn't let me!! It says its available until you try to buy it.
I suppose someone messed up at Ing in the UK! It'll be interesting to see how long it takes them to sort things out and get the site up and running again.
I wonder if anyone will really find out what happened or will they keep it quiet.