Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Nikkei was up 129.43 points at 11,333.77, while the Hang Seng
ended the morning ahead 34.79 points at 22,243.29.

Crude oil traded at $85.33 a barrel on Nymex.

Gold settled at $1,166 an ounce.

Happy Monday!

G.

Morning all. Friday's market reports:

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

Saturday

Greece may be forced into the arms of the International Monetary Fund as soon as this weekend, experts warned on Friday as a leading agency cut the country's debt to just one notch above junk status.
Greece credit rating cut as prospect of rescue looms

The City Minister has written to the heads of Britains five biggest banks asking them to explain how they are preparing for bad credit card debts, The Times has learnt.
Lenders quizzed about credit aftershock fears

The rising price of oil sent factory gate inflation soaring at its fastest pace in 16 months during March, putting more pressure on the Bank of England to keep CPI under control.
Factory gate price surge piles pressure on Bank

Look at the list of Tinseltowners queuing up to spike the plans of Cantor Fitzgerald and Veriana Networks to set up exchanges that would allow speculators to bet on the performance of movie releases.
Futures fright - Hollywood balks at market plot

In dollar terms the gold price is about 5pc below its record, but the weakness of the pound and the euro against the American currency means that for investors in Britain and the eurozone the precious metal has never been so valuable.
Gold hits record high for British investors

Sunday

China's reputation as the global economy's factory has been called into question after it recorded a trade deficit for the first time in six years.
China's trade figures $7bn in the red

The fate of Greece is due to be decided today as European ministers and officials issue their verdict on the terms of the rescue package to be offered to the stricken country.
Greece teeters on brink as rescue package awaits approval

Think back just a few weeks to when official figures were released showing that Britains economy barely scraped out of recession in the final three months of last year. How different things look with the passage of time. The sun has come out and a warm glow is showing through in the recovery evidence.
Sick man of Europe springs back into life

High street sales increased in March as the fragile economic recovery continued to gather pace, figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) will show this week.
High street cheered by sales uplift

The number of profit warnings issued by British quoted companies was the lowest in a decade in the first quarter, but is likely to increase in the coming quarters as the benefits of support measures start to wane, Ernst & Young has warned.
Profit warnings at lowest for decade but likely to rise

Major Wall Street banks are using accounting techniques similar to those utilised by Lehman Brothers in its final days to mask the size of their balance sheets at the end of reporting periods.
US bank accounting 'masks true debt levels

Leading shareholders in the UK's largest mining companies have raised concerns over recent calls for South African mines to be returned to black ownership.
South African mine claims cause concern

Monday

Eurozone countries have agreed to offer Greece aid worth 30bn euros (26.3bn) this year, at below commercial interest rates of 5pc, in order to prevent the Greek debt crisis further damaging the European single currency.
Eurozone agrees 30bn euro Greek rescue package at 5pc

Hedge funds have embarked on a buying spree in which the high-rolling funds are spending more on global equities than at any time since 2007.
Hedge funds buying equities at fastest pace since 2007

The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact.
US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015

Shearings review ...Kroll bids ... Eurostar results ...
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