Hello traders!

In the US tonight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 111 points at
13,632, a record high and closing level.

The S&P500 finished up 12 points at 1,530, also a record close. The broad index
had breached its previous closing record of 1,527 several times but had so far
failed to close above it.

The Nasdaq Composite gained 20 points to close at 2,592.

See you in the morning with the latest....

G.

Director Dealings - Wednesday 30 May 2007

ABB Ltd (ANN)Aegis Group PLC (AGS)AlphaGen AldebaranFdAlphaGen AldebaranFdAnglo American PLC (AAL)BHP Billiton PLC (BLT)BlueCrest Equity FdBritish Land Co PLC (BLND)Brixton PLC (BXTN)Burberry Group PLC (BRBY)Business Control Sol (BCT)CEPS PLC (CEPS)Cadbury Schweppes (CBRY)Catlin Group Limited (CGL)Central & Eastern FdCharles Taylor Cons (CTR)Chaucer Holdings PLC (CHU)Cheltenham & Gloucs (BD27)Clareville Cap IndiaCompass Group PLC (CPG)Dowgate Capital PLC (DGT)

Findel PLC (FDL)First Artist Corp (FAN)HBOS PLC (HBOS)HaiKe Chemical Group (HAIK)Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.)IMI PLC (IMI)IMI PLC (IMI)Iceberg AlternativeInchcape PLC (INCH)Indept. News & Media (INWS)Irish Life&Permanent (IPM)JKX Oil & Gas PLC (JKX)JKX Oil & Gas PLC (JKX)JKX Oil & Gas PLC (JKX)JPMorgan Claver IT (JCH)Land Sec. Group Plc (LAND)Land Sec. Group Plc (LAND)Livermore Inv. Group (LIV)Macro 4 PLC (MAO)Modulus Europe LtdMontrusco Bolton Can

Montrusco Bolton CanMothercare PLC (MTC)Optos plc (OPTS)Pegasus Fund Ld(The)Pegasus Leveraged FdProperty Recyling Group plc (PROP)Rathbone Brothers (RAT)RobertWisemanDairies (RWD)Rolls-Royce Grp Plc (RR.)Rolls-Royce Grp Plc (RR.)Smith & Nephew Plc (SN.)Smith & Nephew Plc (SN.)Smith & Nephew Plc (SN.)Standard Life plc (SL.)Umbro PLC (UMB)Umbro PLC (UMB)Umbro PLC (UMB)Umbro PLC (UMB)Venture Production (VPC)Zytronic PLC (ZYT)

Morning all. Market reports:

Telegraph
Telegraph (Bloomberg summary)
The Times
FT
The Guardian
This is Money

NIKKEI	AUSTRALIA	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

OUTLOOK Alliance Boots shareholders set to rubber stamp KKR/Pessina bidOUTLOOK Kingfisher Q1 sales seen to be boosted by favourable weatherOUTLOOK Man Group FY profit seen up 25 pctOUTLOOK Scottish & Southern Energy FY pretax seen up by over 25 pctOUTLOOK Pennon Group's FY results seen up amid consolidation speculation

BROKER CALL - China's BoComm Q1 results solid; kept a 'buy' - Goldman Sachs

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning up 264.64 points at 20,558.40,
while the Nikkei was recently ahead 245.80 points at 17,834.06.

New York Mercantile Exchange's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in
July, was down 18 cents at $63.31 a barrel from $63.49 in late trading in the US
overnight.

Happy trading!

G.

Asian economic and corporate news summary

PRU downgraded to sell from hold - target 704 - ING

Asian markets summary

BG. upgraded to buy from hold - target 890 from 680 - Deutsche Bank
JMAT upgraded to buy from hold - target 1800 from 1400 - Citigroup

*KINGFISHER SAYS OUTLOOK FOR INTERNATIONAL MARKETS GENERALLY POSITIVESTOCKWATCH BG Group upgraded to 'buy' from 'hold' at Deutsche Bank, tgt 890pLondon shares outlook - firmer, Wall Street ends at record high on FOMC minutesThe Thursday Press Roundup

STOCKWATCH Johnson Matthey upgraded to 'buy' from 'hold' at Citigroup

STOCKWATCH Northern Foods cut to 'underperform' from 'neutral' at Credit Suisse

STOCKWATCH Prudential cut to 'sell' from 'hold' at ING; target 704p vs 635p

Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide

Tokyo shares close firmer as global sell-off worries ease; Nikkei at 3-mth high

UMB initiated at buy - target 210 - Citigroup

Australian shares close higher, led by BHP Billiton

STOCKWATCH British Airways, Ryanair and Air France price tgts cut by CitigroupSTOCKWATCH Intercontinental Hotels cut to 'neutral' from 'overweight' by HSBCSTOCKWATCH Yell reiterated as 'neutral' by JP Morgan; target 535p vs 580