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FTSE / DOW YTD

Morning!


In the US last night, the Dow rose 264 points to 17,976 the Nasdaq rose 56 points to 4,947 and the S&P 500 rose 25 points at 2,086.

In Asia today, the Nikkei was recently down 23.14 points at 19,387.69 and the Hang Seng up 121.67 points at 24,976.79.

WTI crude oil traded at $48.68 a barrel and Brent at $56.29.

Gold settled at $1,184.80 an ounce.

Trade well and prosper!

UK consumer confidence hits 12-year high in March - GfK

German Retail Sales m/m -0.5% -0.9% 2.9%

Iran nuclear crisis: Six key points

French Consumer Spending m/m 0.1% 0.3% 0.6%

Opening Market Summary

GBP Current Account -25.3B -21.2B -27.0B

GBP Final GDP q/q 0.6% 0.5% 0.5%

GBP Index of Services 3m/3m 0.8% 0.7% 0.8%

GBP Revised Business Investment q/q -0.9% -1.4% -1.4%

Bernanke introduces blog as civilian

US Futures pull back

Midday Report

Greece, lenders, fail to unlock aid so far - officials

Sitting in 61% cash of this morning, well down from 90% about a month ago.

Lots of stuff coming close to my target range now. Picked up some more RBS at 342 although it now appears I started too early on this

Opinion: What will burst the stock market bubble?

Hmmm - well I seem to be limited long @6767 which was S3.

Fed's Lacker says strong case for June rates liftoff

Carney muttered something similar earlier - Carney says BoE rates likely to rise, contrasts with Haldane

USD CB Consumer Confidence 101.3 96.6 98.8

It looks like trampolines were particularly vulnerable! - Weather in pictures: 31 March

Falling window hits woman in London's Tooley Street

Closing Market Summary