Good evening traders!

In the US tonight, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 53.07 points to end at 11,283.25. Of the 30 Dow stocks, 19 contributed to losses. .

The Nasdaq Composite dropped 3.08 points to 2,330.30, while the S&P500 finished down 6.37 points at 1,301.74.

See you in the morning with updates...

G.

Good morning traders!

In Asia today, the Hang Seng closed the morning up 62.89 points at 16,640.66, while the Nikkei was recently at 17,000.59, up 30.30 points.

New York's main oil contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June, was at $72.80 a barrel, down 8 cents from $72.88 in the US overnight.

Early broker notes:

CARPHONE WAREHOUSE UPGRADED TO 'OUTPERFORM' VS 'NEUTRAL' AT CREDIT SUISSE

Quite a long list of ex-divvies to be aware of today....

Happy trading!

G.

morning all,RTR looking good for today

long UKX 6100 from last night,s/l on

Morning all.

Morning all.

looking to add to AHT again,these just keep going and going :-)

Midday Market Summary

long IOT@142.50 s/l on

covered UKX longs + 17

short s&p @1310

covered s&p@1307.8

long UKX 6109 s/l on

covered IOT +2

long UKX 6100 s/l on

End-of-day Market Summary