anyone got any ideas about the block trades that went through today?

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sorry about that!!







Ritas path included the Texas coast southwest of Galveston, where in 1900 at least 8,000 people died in the deadliest recorded U.S. hurricane.

Just last month, Hurricane Katrina devastated parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and killed at least 1,037 people.Financial markets reacted immediately to news the storm had gained strength, with the prospect of more destruction and oil-supply interruptions affecting everything from stocks and the dollar to oil prices.

MASSIVE EVACUATION ORDERED

Galveston, a city of about 58,000 people located on a barrier island, began evacuating residents on Tuesday. More than 50 miles (80 km) inland, Houston Mayor Bill White ordered an evacuation of residents in areas prone to storm surges or major floods.Officials said as many as 1.2 million people were expected to start leaving Houston, Americas fourth most populous city with about 2 million residents and an international center for the oil industry. The city was the most popular destination for evacuees from Katrina, which displaced about 1 million people, including nearly all of New Orleanss 450,000 residents.Stores in Houston quickly ran out of emergency supplies, plywood and food. The last major hurricane to hit Houston was Alicia in 1983, a Category 3 storm that killed 22 people. Tropical Storm Allison in 2001 caused extensive flooding in the city and killed more than 40 people across the United States. Texas Gov. Rick Perry urged Texans along a 300-mile (483 km) stretch comprising most of the states coastline, to leave. He said nursing home residents already were being evacuated.

The Mexican government issued a tropical storm watch for the countrys northeast coast from Rio San Fernando northward. Everyones scared, thats why were all leaving, Galveston Island resident Maria Stephens said, citing television images of Katrinas devastation. I saw the people at the shelters and the bodies floating in the water. I dont want that to be my family.NASA prepared to evacuate its Johnson Space Center in Houston and turn over control of the International Space Station to its Russian partners.

About 1,100 Katrina evacuees still in Houstons two mass shelters were being sent to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Some Houston hospitals were evacuated.New Orleans, flooded by Katrina, was taking no chances.Mayor Ray Nagin said two busloads of people had been evacuated already and 500 other buses were ready. State officials said an estimated 9,700 residents of Cameron Parish on the Louisiana-Texas border were told to leave. They added that 2,662 people housed in shelters after Katrina were relocated to facilities farther north in the state, and 5,054 more were expected to be moved.

A FEMA spokesman said Rita was not expected to re-flood New Orleans if the storm stayed on its current westward course. GOVERNMENTS, OIL INDUSTRY RESPONDAt 11 p.m. EDT (0300 GMT), Ritas center was about 570 miles (917 km) east-southeast of Galveston and moving toward the west near 9 mph (14 kph), the hurricane center said.Taking lessons from problems after Katrina hit, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said authorities had positioned supplies and were checking on communications systems. The government sent Coast Guard Rear Adm. Larry Hereth to Texas to coordinate the response.I hope that by doing what the state officials and mayors are doing now ... getting people who are invalids out of the way, encouraging people to leave early, that when the storm hits, there will be property damage but hopefully there wont be a lot of people to rescue, Chertoff told MSNBC.Oil companies just starting to recover from Katrina evacuated Gulf oil rigs as Rita moved closer.

Four Texas refineries were shut down, even as four refineries remained shut in Louisiana and Mississippi after Katrina.Together with the 5 percent of U.S. refinery capacity shut since Katrina, the four closed Texas refineries add up to about 11.5 percent of U.S. oil refining.A U.S. energy official said the risk of flooding at the Texas refineries was less than what Katrina posed in Louisiana, because they were on higher ground.U.S. light crude oil rose $1.15 per barrel to $67.35. The dollar weakened and U.S. stock prices amid concerns about the storms impact on energy costs and consumer spending.

While the tick up is welcome, I fear it will be very short lived.

cheers SWW! i disagree, 3 MM's raised their bids within one minute of eachother. i wager these close a touch higher than where they are now....

Hi prop.

We will see, is EVO one of the 3?

Still waiting to see the first buy over 18.75p...................

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barryrog - 22 Sep'05 - 14:05 - 7210 of 7211

"latest estimates for tomorrow are 17.6m t/o, 6.9m pre tax and 0.40p eps".

If he is right they are great numbers, just need to hurricane to blow itself out before it goes much further and they will have a terrifc impact on the sp.

Lets hope that Rita turns out to be no where near as damaging to the area as some people are predicting, but it doesn't look too good right now. Hopefully tomorrows results will give us something more positive to talk about. No doubt Evo's will put out a new note as well.

The timing is awful, why couldn't they arrange the hurricane for another day?

I suspect it will be a cloud over proceedings.

More patience will be needed.

To cap it all, I've got bad wind too...........

There was a rare old fug over the sea wall this morning.

Not many people about, those that were there soon left after I arrived.

No staying power, that's just typical of the British Public nowadays.

Wimps, Cads and Bounders.

Dangerous game being played out on the EVS front.

I think, (but don't say I said so), they have had it.

That assumption is not based on anything I know, more what I have seen on other discussions.

Lol Sww! Far too much wind about for my liking! Rita seems to be weakening slightly according to CNBC, let's hope it weakens a lot. Some buys, albeit small at 19 now.

There go a few 19p buys.

2 hours to go, you may be correct prop.

Looks like you are well right!!

Well read, well red?

GOOD OLD EVO. he went 18.5 bid about 30 seconds before the close and two other boys had joined the 18.25 bid a few minutes before...

bit of volume printed as well which is probably the reason why they moved higher in the afternoon...somene looking for a sexy offer..

Don't look at me.................

Decent sized T trade as well, 2.4m at 18.75.

that was the trade i was refering to....

SWW, lol

Hurricane Rita loses force, reclassified into Category 4 on Saffir-Simpson scale
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MIAMI (AFX) - Hurricane Rita has lost power and has been reclassified into Category 4 of the Saffir-Simpson scale from Category 5, according to the National Hurricane Centre.

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Good call Prop ----- Thanks for the teach-in

Chartwise looks like we could've bounced off the March-April resistance turned support at 18.5p ish, Rita willing.

The widely awaited Interims

Problems in the Gulf obtaining equipment for developement of wells but profits are up.