Hello traders!

Going into the close on Wall Street, the Dow was up 88 points at 12,282, with 28 of 30 components contributing to gains. The S&P 500 rose 12 points to a six-year high of 1,408, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 34 points to 2,447.

See you in the morning with the latest...

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng ended the morning up 166.95 points at 18,869.68, while the Nikkei closed down 37.83 points at 16,265.76.

New York's Mercantile Exchange's main oil contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, was up 16 cents at $62.60 a barrel from $62.44 in late trading in the US overnight.

Early broker notes:

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL UPGRADED TO 'BUY' VS 'HOLD' AT ABN AMRO
IG GROUP CUT TO 'HOLD' VS 'BUY' AT CITIGROUP
VODAFONE UPGRADED TO 'BUY' VS 'NEUTRAL' AT GOLDMAN SACHS

Happy trading!

G.

Morning all.

One for the "UPS"

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:34:18 GMT

Category - UPS
Nickname - Master RSI
Epic - SEO
Mid - 1.095p
Reason - After the move up to 2p just over a couple weeks ago, the price have almost half again,
yesterday's it seems could be the lowest again and today have stop the rot and buying
and order book seems stronger Indicators now at Oversold

EME 67 - 69p +4.5p

what will earn from Margarita after news today was at "UPS" yesterday....

Empyrean to earn 44 pct working interest in Project Margarita, Texas

LONDON (AFX) - AIM-listed Empyrean Energy PLC said it will earn a 44 pct
working interest in Project Margarita, South Texas in an agreement with the
Wandoo Joint Venture.
Project Margarita consists of a number of high impact deep prospects and
also a number of lower risk smaller shallow prospects.
The project's joint venture partners Sun Resources NL, Victoria Petroleum NL
and Wandoo Energy LLC, have agreed to drill six of the shallow prospects first
and then move on to three higher impact deep 30 to 200 BCF gas prospects in
mid-2007.
Empyrean's commercial director Tom Kelly said: "the project has a very good
balance of higher risk high impact prospects that will be drilled in 2007
following the lower risk shallow prospect program starting in mid-December
2006."
The company added that the development of any commercial discovery will be
"a matter of a few months" from the final wells programme beginning in February
2007.

Tanfield (TAN) looking good now on mid-morning update

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