Hello traders!

A good day gone and another to come.... ;)

Will it be frothing up at Nero or gushing at Shell? Maybe Smith+Nephew will find more friends tomorrow and Rio will make up lost ground with glistening results or will Bellway ring out the changes.... Who knows what tomorrow brings...?

After an encouraging start, the US markets look to be in the hands of the sellers in the final stage.... All maor indices are positive but any late profit-taking will make the stats look sooo bad...

See you in the morning with breaking news..

Happy dreams!

G.

Lloyds 525,dream on.

Nice dream dave.

Good morning traders!

The US markets opened higher yesterday following another round of strong earnings reports and strengthened into the close.

As widely anticipated, the Fed raised the repo rate by 25 basis points to 2.5% and maintained balanced risk assessment. The major indices closed higher for the third consecutive session for the first time in 2005, with the S&P 500 rising for the sixth time in seven sessions as nearly 2/3 of its constituents, having already reporting quarterly results, have beaten forecasts.

The Dow closed 44.85 points ahead at 10,596.79 with the Nasdaq 6.36 points better at 2,075.06 and the S&P500 3.78 points higher at 1,193.19.

Back with UK breaking news as soon as I find some...

Happy trading!

G.

It appears that AFX news feeds are currently out of action. It is the same on other sites, so a general problem. I will get the techie crew onto it as soon as possible...

Alan

Alan,

Yes there does appear to be a problem with the AFX feed not only with us, but across the board.

I will try and find out what is going on.

Ian

News is now playing catch-up and will be bang up to date very soon. Thanks Ian.

Morning all.

Morning all

Shell - record profits - how thing change so quickly!

LW - how true re Shell....... mine triggered a stop loss and sold at "large"(!) loss!

Out of Mob.+61p

Nice 1 stan.

Thanks Dave, see your still going strong with Sainsburys.

I going well at the mo.

Took a hit with TATE -14p.