Hello traders!

The US markets ended the recent good run with a bang tonight.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 184.18 points to 11,094.43. All 30 Dow stocks contributed to the decline.

The Nasdaq Composite dropped 45.63 points to 2,164.74 and the S&P500 fell 20.29 points to 1,259.87.

See you in the morning for the next exciting episode....

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 316.87 points at 15,542.58, following the US lead. Hong Kong is closed for a public holiday.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for July delivery was down 22 cents at $71.81 from its close of $72.03 in the US.

Early broker notes:

WELLINGTON UNDERWRITING UPGRADED TO 'BUY' FROM 'HOLD' BY CITIGROUP

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all.

Good morning all

One for the "UPS"
UPS (Added by Master RSI on Wed 31 May 10:03 am)

MPH - 20 - 20.50p
Reason - Marked down overdone this morning, the support at 20p is strong, result at end next month are expected to be strong by company update, directors buying large lately

MPH ... suppose this ought to be on an MPH thread, but still ...... The share has been much more robust ever since Greg Tuffnell was booted out (good job too) and Michael Morris has taken back the day to day running ...... I suspect the whole operation is now much more focussed and well run, which I hope will show when the reults come out at the end of June and in the trading statement that must surely accomoany them.

is it mrw div today and kgf friday please.

Midday Market Summary

       LUNCH TIME FUN

Greystone

It seems your enter bottom have got " stuck " and only 9 entries have gone through ( Midday Market Summary )

Master RSI - Thanks. Techie problems here due to storms - seems to have caused the duplications... Should be fixed now.

G.

End-of-day Market Summary

        JOKE OF THE DAY

Two deaf people get married. During the first week of marriage,
they find that they are unable to communicate in the bedroom
when they turn off the lights because they can't see each
other using sign language.

After several nights of fumbling around and misunderstandings,
the wife decides to find a solution.

"Honey," she signs, "Why don't we agree on some simple signals?
For instance, at night, if you want to have sex with me,
reach over and squeeze my left breast one time.
If you don't want to have sex, reach over
and squeeze my right breast one time."

The husband thinks this is a great idea
and signs back to his wife, "Great idea,
Now if you want to have sex with ME,
reach over and pull on my penis one time.
If you don't want to have sex,
reach over and pull on my penis......fifty times."