Hello Traders,

At 3:30pm ET, Wall Street is holding onto gains after consumer credit figures checked in much higher than expected.

The Dow is 21 points ahead, the Nasdaq 20 points up and the S&P500 4.14 to the good.

Looks like a positive close to the day. Let's hope it rolls over into London in the morning....

See you then.

Good morning traders,

In the US last night the Dow hovered around the 11,000 mark mid-session but failed to hold onto minimal gains into the close while modest gains in the S&P, largely benefiting from strength in technology, allowed it to close at another 3 1/2 year high.

The Dow ended 3.69 points down at 10,936.86 with the Nasdaq 19.6 ahead at 2,090.21 and the S&P500 3.19 points higher at 1,225.31.

This morning, Tokyo's winning streak came to an end. The Nikkei closed down 38.45 points at 11,886.91, after gaining 3.6% over the previous eight trading days. The market's longest winning streak since August 1999.

Back with UK news in a mo...

morning all

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Morning

DDD - minnow done deal with Sharp for 3D notebook!
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700024146J.html

PRE - drilling update
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700044352J.html

MCTY - trading update. Cracks appearing in housebuilders?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700054373J.html

WICH - another property acquisition
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700084407J.html

ERT - new contracts
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700104413J.html

SGR - property sale well in excess of book value
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700134423J.html

CFL - pw
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700194435J.html

XNC - acquisition with FY - maiden profit
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700364469J.html
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080701024470J.html

QAR - interesting outfit, recently floated
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700424483J.html

CFT - back in the black, hefty divi rise
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700044367J.html

AGY - profit?!?!?!
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700074388J.html

LTG - strong outlook
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700184430J.html

TOU - very full of themselves, probably rightly so?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700194438J.html

BOI - not quite reached forecasts, but seem to have turned
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700114421J.html

ZTF - turned the corner?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700214442J.html

AML - poised to break up? Divi well hiked
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700284449J.html

CHW - on the turnaround too?
http://www.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200503080700374475J.html

Time's out, but there's loads more. On the note about MCTY, I also see RDW questioning things forward. Hmm.

Good morning all.

Morning all zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

morning all

Morning all-just.
Just noticed Virotec (VCI) made golden
cross a few days ago.
mac.

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