Good morning traders!

In the US last night, the Dow rose 69 points at 12,162, the Nasdaq added 15 points at
2,784 and the S&P500 gained 8 points at 1,319.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 44 points at 10,636, while the Hang Seng ended
the morning off 109 points at 23,444.

Crude oil traded at $87.25 a barrel on Nymex.

Gold settled at $1,351 an ounce.

Happy trading!

G.

NIKKEI 225	AUSTRALIA ASX200	HANG SENG	SHANGHAI COMPOSITE
KOSPI	SENSEX	VIX	GBPUSD
GBPEUR	NYMEX CRUDE	GOLD

ASC Citigroup: reiterated buy, tp raised to 2100 from 1475
BBY UBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 430 from 340
BLVN BarCap: reiterated overweight, tp cut to 490 from 500
BRBY RBS: initiated buy, tp 1500
CPI JPMorgan: reiterated overweight, tp reiterated 880
CPR Deutsche: sell, tp cut to 600 from 650
DCG UBS: reiterated neutral, tp 385
DXNS BarCap: downgraded to equal weight from overweight, tp cut to 22 from 28
GSK UBS: reiterated buy, tp reiterated 1650
HOME BarCap: downgraded to underweight from equal weight, tp cut to 185 from 210
ISAT JPMorgan: reiterated overweight, tp reiterated 900
ISAT Morgan Stanley: reiterated equal weight, tp reiterated 760
ITV Goldman: conviction buy, tp raised to 111 from 105
ITV UBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 100 from 84
JMAT Morgan Stanley: equal weight, tp reiterated 1900
LGEN Jeffries: initiated hold, tp 122
NXT BarCap: upgraded to equal weight from underweight, tp raised to 2200 from 2050
PRTY BarCap: upgraded to equal weight from underweight, tp 195
REL UBS: reiterated buy, tp reiterated 650
RGU UBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 130 from 100
SBT BarCap: equal weight, tp cut to 60 from 75
SHP JPMorgan: neutral, tp 1640
SL. Jeffries: initiated underperform, tp 212
UMC UBS: reiterated buy, tp raised to 550 from 500
YULC JPMorgan: upgraded to overweight from neutral, tp raised to 272 from 230

Many thanks Kyoto. Always very useful stuff. :)

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