Good morning Traders!

Not a lot going on today in the reporting field. Neither Austin Reed or Ted Baker seem very inspiring.

* Austin Reed PLC. The company has forecast a first-half pretax loss before exceptionals of 2.5-3 mln stg vs profit 1.1 mln.

* Ted Baker PLC. Analysts forecast a 28 weeks to Aug 13 pretax profit of about 5.1 mln stg vs 4.6 mln.

On top of their slush fund woes, BAE have been downgraded by DKW.

The BoE begin their deliberations on UK interest rates today. I suspect that will ensure it is a quiet day. Most everyone expects rates to stay the same this month but there is always that element of doubt....

Happy trading!

G.

morning all

Hello everybody.

Holding lots of Oil & Gas, and nicely up.

Oh and SOF long, still -2

Have a great day!

Morning all. Is it going to be a down day today?

Morning all

Morning all

Druid - seems like the FTSE has forgotten what a down day is at the moment!!!

SWW

Good to hear - I am long DNX and SEY and both (especially DNX) are having a good run

Thanks Fundamentalist, makes a change for something to go so right!!

;-)))

Morning all. Quick look in.

CFD longs in AQP, BDH, BTSM, MNA, PCI, ROK, TIG and a bucketload of MRS in the ISA. Only AQP negative position so basically running profits.

Just the way I like it! ;-)))

Have a good day/week. At work, but will pop by at times with any luck.

Al

Sun's out here Al, think you'll need those shorts again soon :>)

long more SOF 135 s/l on

long RGU 72 s/l on

You just want to see my knobbly knees, amber! LOL

Nice b/o on big volume PCI today. ;-)

short DAX 4043 s/l on

Added to RGU @ 71.75

TOKYO (AFX) - An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale rocked Tokyo
and the Kanto region of Japan Wednesday night, local media said quoting the
meteorological agency.
There were no reports of damage or injury, Kyodo news agency said, although
train services in the capital were temporarily halted following the tremor.
The meteorological agency did not issue any warning for tsunami waves which
sometimes follow earthquakes, Kyodo said.
bur-dk/dv/jlw

After hours news of a new oil strike in Russia for BP might just help them on again tomorrow....

Interesting news, thanks Greystone.

How did you guess Big Al although I hope the're not too hairy as well as knobbly, send us a piccy then :>)

;-)

http://www.jobseducationwis.org/221%20Job%20Growth%20Hype%20and%20Reality.doc

Very interesting article I picked up on the internet. It will be very interesting when the American Non-Farm numbers are released on Friday. IMHO, the US market will fall and UK will follow. Watch this space.

Other views please.