Hello traders!

Lots of goodies up for grabs in the morning again...

Somerfield.... Oh dear me!

Austin Reed might surprise...

Boots and Smiths.... Don't do anything for me..

Ted Baker? Now there's a thought. Will TBK do a Monsoon...?

See you in the morning with the news.

G.

Good morning traders!

A brighter session on Wall Street last night took the Dow 70.79 points ahead to 10,628.79. The Nasdaq added 18.13 points at 2,106.04 with the S&P500 11.46 better at 1,195.98.

The idea that stocks may be oversold in the wake of solid earnings reports and encouraging corporate news was enough to shrug off early weakness. This was also enough to keep sellers at bay and close the indices at their highs of the session.

Asian markets are predominantly higher this morning although Tokyo is seeing some profit-taking towards the end of its trading day.

Back with some UK news soon.

Happy trading!

G.

morning all

EUROPEAN INSURANCE SECTOR CUT TO 'NEUTRAL' FROM 'POSITIVE' BY LEHMAN BROTHERS

ICAP CUT TO 'REDUCE' VS 'NEUTRAL' AT UBS

HMV GROUP UPGRADED TO 'OUTPERFORM' FROM 'IN-LINE' BY GOLDMAN SACHS

GLAXOSMITHKLINE CUT TO 'UNDERWEIGHT' VS 'EQUAL-WEIGHT' AT MORGAN STANLEY

Morning all.

Good morning all

I saw the headline "Records to tumble at Barratt" and thought oh dear, whats
going wrong now..... read the article and its all extremely positive!!!

Perhaps I missed something?

Morning all.

Looking good so far, let's hope we follow the US!

Good morning all. Agreed jj50 good start this morning.

little woman - Red: Barratt - I guess it is in the interpretation. I meant it to be positive... as in record breaking... ;-)