Hello traders!

In the US tonight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down almost 200 points
at 13,266 at its unofficial close. The S&P 500 dropped 26.64 points to 1,490.74
and the Nasdaq Composite gave up 45.80 points to end at 2,541.38.

See you in the morning to pick up the pieces....

G.

Director Dealings - Thursday 7 June 2007

3i Group PLC (III)888 Holdings plc (888)Acal PLC (ACL)Acal PLC (ACL)Acal PLC (ACL)Acal PLC (ACL)Acal PLC (ACL)Alliance Trust PLC (ATST)Alliance Trust PLC (ATST)Allied Irish Banks (ALBK)Arbuthnot Banking (ARBB)BATM Advanced Comm (BVC)BHP Billiton PLC (BLT)Bank of Ireland(Gov) (BKIR)Barr(A.G.) PLC (BAG)Blue Planet Euro Fin (BLP)Blue Planet Fin IT 1 (BPFA)Blue Planet FinGrwth (BPFU)British Am. Tobacco (BATS)Canaccord Capital Inc. (CCI)CareTech Holdings (CTH)Cashbox PLC (CBOX)Celoxica Holdings (CXA)City Merchants HYT (CHY)

De La Rue PLC (DLAR)Debenhams plc (DEB)EP Global Opps Tst (EPG)Elec & Gen Inv Tst (ENG)Enodis PLC (ENO)Episode IncEvolution Group PLC (EVG)Fiberweb Plc (FWEB)First Quantum Min Ld (FQM)First Quantum Min Ld (FQM)GCAP Media PLC (GCAP)GCAP Media PLC (GCAP)GCAP Media PLC (GCAP)GCAP Media PLC (GCAP)Grainger PLC (GRI)Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.)Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.)Harvey Nash Group (HVN)Interior Serv. Grp. (ISG)Interior Serv. Grp. (ISG)Interserve PLC (IRV)Interserve PLC (IRV)Intnl. Biotechnology (IBT)Intnl. Biotechnology (IBT)

Kinetics Fund IncLadbrokes PLC (LAD)Land Sec. Group Plc (LAND)Legal & General Grp (LGEN)Marks & Spencer Grp (MKS)May GurneyIntegrated (MAYG)Medusa Mining Ltd (MML)Minerva PLC (MNR)Montrusco Bolton CanNational Grid PLC (NG.)Personal Group Holdings PLC (PGH)Phytopharm PLC (PYM)Rexam PLC (REX)Rexam PLC (REX)Rexam PLC (REX)Rexam PLC (REX)Rolls-Royce Grp Plc (RR.)SVG Capital PLC (SVI)Spring Group PLC (SRG)Spring Group PLC (SRG)TR Property Inv. (TRY)Taylor Woodrow PLC (TWOD)Wolseley PLC (WOS)Zetex Plc (ZTX)

Morning all. Market reports:

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

NIKKEI	AUSTRALIA	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 295.63 points at 20,504.53,
while the Nikkei was recently down 279.74 points at 17,773.64.

New York Mecantile Exchange's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in
July, was down 18 cents at $66.75 a barrel from $66.93 in late trading in the US overnight.

Happy Friday...!

G.

FOCUS-Australian 'clean-coal' projects evaluating technology, await pricingSTOCKWATCH - Australia's ERA sharply lower after earnings warningAsian markets summaryThomson Financial Europe AM at a glance share guide: Stocks crash, dollar gainsTFN economic and business calendar

Asian economic and corporate news summary

The Friday Press Roundup

London shares outlook - lower as Wall Street falls sharply on rising bond yields

BROKERWATCH Shell upgraded to 'buy' from 'neutral' at Merrill Lynch; tgt 2,150p

Thomson Financial UK at a glance share guide

Tokyo shares close lower on Wall St slide, weak data

Australian shares close sharply lower on global equity sell-off

CW. initiated at neutral - JP Morgan
NWG downgraded to neutral from buy - UBS
SSL upgraded to neutral from sell - Goldman Sachs

UK smallcap opening - Dobbies Garden Centres jumps on agreed Tesco bid

Australian shares close sharply lower on global equity sell-off - UPDATE

UK smallcap opening - Meridian Petroleum lower after 1.78 mln stg placing

FTSE opens firmly weaker UK smallcap opening - SimiGon spooked by full-year profit warning

UK smallcap opening - Aukett Fitzroy Robinson gains on confident outlookTokyo shares close lower on Wall St slide, weak data - UPDATE

UK smallcap opening - HandMade climbs after smashing sales target at Cannes