Hello traders!

In the US tonight, the DJIA was down 89.28 points at 7,466.35 with the S&P500
off 9.47 points at 778.95 and the Nasdaq Composite down 25.15 points at 1,442.82.

See you in the morning wth the latest.....

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was down 141.27 points at 7,416.38, while the Hang Seng
reached the halfway stage down 321.49 points at 12,701.87.

Happy Friday!

G.

Morning all. Market reports:

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

Britain is at "serious risk" of entering a decade-long recession similar to that experienced by Japan in the 1990s, the outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England has warned.
Britain at risk of 10 year recession

The national debt is likely to be catapulted through the 2 trillion mark following the Treasury's decision to stand behind Britain's troubled banks' debts.
UK national debt set to surpass 2 trillion

US bank shares hit a near 17-year low on Thursday on fears the government will have to nationalise troubled institutions such as Citigroup and Bank of America.
US bank shares near 17-year lows

A leading US economist has called on the Federal Reserve to target an inflation rate of 5pc to 6pc over the next two years to erode the debt burden and slow the pace of job losses.
Ken Rogoff says Fed needs to set inflation target of 6pc to help ease crisis

The US authorities are facing tough questions over why they took so long to act against Allen Stanford's business empire amid accusations that a "massive fraud" at his Antigua-registered banking group dates back to the mid-1990s.
Alarm bells sounded over Allen Stanford in 1995, but no one listened

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