Hello traders!

In the US tonight, the Dow closed down 280.28 points at 13,041.85, while the
S&P500 ended off 34.43 points at 1,432.36 and the Nasdaq Composite fell 60.61
points to 2,500.64.

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

G.

Director Dealings - Tuesday 28 August 2007

Aviva PLC (AV.)BHP Billiton PLC (BLT)BHP Billiton PLC (BLT)BHP Billiton PLC (BLT)Brunner Investment (BUT)Burberry Group PLC (BRBY)Cable & Wireless PLC (CW.)Cape Diamonds (CAPE)Company Health Group (CHT)Dairy Crest Group (DCG)FRM Credit Alpha Ltd (FCAP)First Calgary (FPL)FirstGroup PLC (FGP)FirstGroup PLC (FGP)GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK)Henderson Group plc (HGI)

INA-Industrija Nafte (HINA)Instore PLC (INST)Jacques Vert PLC (JQV)Lonmin PLC (LMI)Luminar PLC (LMR)Luminar PLC (LMR)Mandarin Oriental (MDO)Mano River Resources (MANA)Media Corp. (MDC)Merchant Securities (MERC)Metalrax Group. (MRX)Misys (MSY)Monitise PLC (MONI)National Grid PLC (NG.)Newport Networks Grp (NNG)Next PLC (NXT)

Northern Rock PLC (NRK)Northgate Info Solns (NIS)QinetiQ Group plc (QQ.)Reckitt Benckiser (RB.)SR Euro Inv Trust (SR.)St. James's Place (STJ)Summit Corporation (SUMM)Tesco PLC (TSCO)Treatt PLC (TET)Universe Grp. (UNG)Uruguay Min. Explor. (UGY)Warner Estate Hldgs. (WNER)Witan Inv Tst PLC (WTAN)Witan Inv Tst PLC (WTAN)Zytronic PLC (ZYT)

Morning all. Market reports:

Telegraph
The Times
The Times (Need to know)
FT
The Guardian
The Independent
This is Money

Barclays Capital emerged yesterday, finally, to give some much-needed guidance to the clients, customers and other passengers of the bank. And, in short, it said: Exposures may be smaller than they appear. Again, it was not an entirely uplifting message, but it provided a welcome sense of the banks position.

Awkward silence that allowed rumours a free rein

Barclays appears to have been responsible both for designing a complex fund that got Sachsen into difficulty and for helping to pull the plug on the bank by demanding margin calls in respect of another Sachsen investment.

Barclays woes grow as crisis in sub-prime forces its client to be rescued

Ex-Goldman Sachs analyst faces jail after admitting insider trading

The three founders of Carlyle, the American private equity group, have come to the rescue of its troubled Dutch-listed subsidiary by providing the bulk of the $200 million emergency loans to help the fund to meet margin calls.

Founders of US fund dip into own pockets to rescue offshoot

The crunch in world credit markets is even worse than the turmoil of October 1998 that caused the demise of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund, a senior manager at private-equity giant Carlyle is warning investors.

Carlyle raises credit crunch alarm level

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran
Sarkozy talks of bombing if Iran gets nuclear arms

NIKKEI	AUSTRALIA	SHANGHAI	HANG SENG

OUTLOOK Antofagasta H1 pretax climbs on higher output, may pay special dividendOUTLOOK PartyGaming focus on outlook for key Q4 periodThomson Financial Europe AM at a glance share guide: Stocks, oil lowerTFN economic and business calendarTFN economic and business calendar to Tuesday Sept 11

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning down 544.19 points at 22,819.57,
while the Nikkei was recently off 422.42 points at 15,865.07.

Crude oil for October delivery fell as much as 23 cents from the New York close to
$71.50 a barrel in Asian trading.

Happy trading!

G.

RPT TFN economic and business calendar

TFN UK calendar and forecasts for today

BROKERWATCH Standard Life upped to 'overweight' at Morgan StanleyThomson Financial UK at a glance share guideLondon shares outlook - Weaker after NY down on ongoing unease about economy

Australian shares close lower led by financials on US economy concerns

UK smallcap opening - Empyrean Energy up on encouraging gas find

Australian shares close lower led by financial stocks on US concerns - UPDATE

UK smallcap opening - Qonnectis gains on upbeat updateTokyo shares close lower on renewed fears of slowdown in US economy

STOCKWATCH Antofagasta down after H1; Landsbanki ups target to 800p from 600UK smallcap opening - LiDCO ahead on bullish updateFTSE opens firmly lower

UK smallcap opening - SovGEM up as H1 NAV climbs 18 pct

UK smallcap opening - Wellstream rises after interims

UK smallcap opening - Premier Research higher on management bid approach

Tokyo shares close lower on renewed fears of slowdown in US economy - UPDATE

BROKERWATCH Next, H&M upped to overweight by JP Morgan, Debenhams 'neutral'

UK smallcap opening - SciSys slides on FY warning