Good morning traders!

In Asia today, Japanese markets areclosed for a public holiday, while the Hang
Seng approached the midday break 9.85 points lower at 21,489.59.

Crude oil traded at $72.17 a barrel on Nymex.

Happy Monday!

G.

PS Welcome back Kyoto!

Thanks Greystone - setting everything back up in South Korea has been somewhat more complicated and time consuming than expected and I've had just about every computer problem imaginable in the last few weeks. Fingers crossed now!

ARM Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 185 from 145
BAY RBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 300 from 225
BP. HSBC: reiterated neutral, tp cut to 560 from 570
BRBY Deutsche: buy, tp raised to 620 from 440
CSR Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 550 from 500
CSR Jeffries: upgraded to buy from hold, tp raised to 550 from 350
ENRC ING: initiated hold, tp 900
EZJ RBS: downgraded to hold from buy, tp raised to 400 from 375
FIVE Citigroup: downgraded to hold from buy
HFD Altium: initiated buy, tp 500
ISYS UBS: downgraded to neutral from buy, tp raised to 320 from 290
ITV Goldman: upgraded to buy from neutral, tp reiterated 58
ITV RBS: buy, tp 60
JJB Altium: sell
JJB Seymour: downgraded to sell from hold
KAZ ING: initiated buy, tp 1400
LAD Jeffries: reiterated hold, tp cut to 130 from 225
LAD Morgan Stanley: reiterated equalweight, tp cut to 145 from 210
LAD UBS: downgraded to neutral from buy, tp cut to 140 from 179
LAM HSBC: downgraded to neutral from overweight
SDY Altium: downgraded to hold from buy, tp cut to 40 from 50
SGE Citigroup: reiterated hold, tp raised to 230 from 180
TIG Altium: upgraded to buy from hold, tp raised to 16 from 12
ULVR SNS: upgraded to accumulate
VOD JPMorgan: buy
WLF Citigroup: reiterated hold, tp raised to 135 from 115
XTA Evolution: reiterated reduce, tp 820

Good to see you again kyoto. Thanks for all your hard work.

Thanks kimoldfield.

Opening Market Overview

And thanks to Alan as well, for the Investor's & Trader's Threads! :o)

Yes, thanks as ever to Alan for the Thread! :-)

Not to be missed.

One for the "UPS" ready to BREAKOUT

Master RSI - 12 Oct'09 - 10:26 - 55 of 56 edit
UPS

SEY 4.785 ( 4.78 / 4.79p )

Good charting trying to BREAKOUT on a very narrow spread and good Level 2

Intraday
2 month Bollinger Bands,RSI, S Stochastic and 50 days MA

3 month Bollinger Bands,RSI, S Stochastic and 50 days MA

Charts - 2 days

Kyoto:

Good to have you back.
As you can see from the comments of others too, your absence from this thread always leaves a void. Hope you're in better health as well!

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Thanks guys, but it is your thread - you make it all worthwhile :)

Thanks Midknight - my health is a work in progress but it's not anything to be terribly worried about any more. I'll try to keep posting here as long as there's an interest.

OIL prices
A STRONG RISE TO $73.50 TODAY

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