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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow lost 358 points to 16,991 the Nasdaq lost 142 points to 4,877 and the S&P 500 lost 44 points at 2,036.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 564.01 points at 19,467.78 and the Hang Seng down 506.37 points at 22,251.10.

WTI crude oil traded at $41.14 a barrel and Brent at $46.62.

Gold settled at $1153.00 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

Quiz of the week's news

A worrying 4/7.

Global stocks, oil tumble as grim China PMI sparks growth fears

North Korea orders troops on war footing after exchanging fire with South

Down day number 9 then?

Not looking very nice - currently on offer 6283.5-6285.5!

Not nice but looking different half an hour in. Looking at HSBA and STAN one wonders if this is close the shorts on the overnight news

As if I haven't got enough real shares, I've opened a SB on LLOY.

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Opening Market Summary

EUR Flash Manufacturing PMI 52.4 52.3 52.4

EUR Flash Services PMI 54.3 54.1 54.0

GBP Public Sector Net Borrowing -2.1B -2.3B 8.6B

Greece crisis: Syriza rebels form new Popular Unity party

Twitter shares tumble below IPO price

UK public finances show first July surplus since 2012 as tax receipts swell

US Futures: Stocks eye a reprieve despite ‘mortal blow’ from Chinese data

U.S. oil fall longest in 29 years after China data

Midday Report

Last time we had 9 consecutive down finishes was on 24/11/2011.

Ugly candle today but should be some support around here (I hope).

Monday another day

VIX 'Fear Index' sees biggest weekly jump ever

Closing Market Summary