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Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow rose 62 points to 16,714, the Nasdaq rose 19 points to
4,453 and the S&P 500 gained 8 points at 1,955.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently up 6.94 points at 15,321.51 and the Hang Seng up 157.22 points at 24,958.58.

WTI crude oil traded at $95.58 a barrel and Brent at $102.01.

Gold settled at $1,313.90 an ounce.

Live long and prosper!

Quiz of the Week's news

1 / 7 for me!

Morning skinny. Ditto and that was the Lauren Bacall one :0)

It was phone for me!

A tad late as I've been out.

Morning market Summary

Midday Report

Gold and Markets

CAD Manufacturing Sales m/m 0.6% 0.5% 1.6%

USD PPI m/m 0.1% 0.1% 0.4%

USD Core PPI m/m 0.2% 0.2% 0.2%

skinny, remember the HL probate charges which were increased
up tp £600 which we discussed on another thread. They have been
dropped now. A bit late in the day for clients like me who have left them. Here.

Midknight, thanks - I did post it yesterday on the SIPP & ISA thread

My more immediate gripe was the 'Corporate Action' charges which have also been dropped.

I spoke to them about this last month and told them that after 30 years, I would be moving elsewhere.

On balance, I'll probably stay with them now - better the devil you know...

If one closes one account, one has to pay a closing charge now,
I closed a week before all the new charges were introduced. No regrets.

Market Closing Summary

2/7 in the quiz.. Some obscure questions in there eh.