Hello traders!

In the US, in late afternoon trading, the Dow rose 69.15 to 12,174.70. The S&P500 rose 4.60 to 1,384.38, and the Nasdaq Composite added 15.59 at 2,381.54.

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

G.

Hello traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning down 17.62 points at 18,921.69, while the Nikkei was recently down 131.92 points at 16,261.49.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for December delivery, was up 31 cents at $59.24 a barrel from $58.93 in late US trade overnight.

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all.

Shares in Barclays rose 11p to 716.5p after the bank said it had agreed to buy INDEXCHANGE Investment from Germany 's Hypo Vereinsbank for approximately 240 million euro. INDEXCHANGE is Germany 's leading provider of exchange traded funds with assets under management of 15.2 billion euro as at 2 November. The unit will be combined with iShares, Barclays Global Investors' exchange traded funds business to create the leading provider in Europe.

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