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	Daily FX The Pound Traded Firmly Against The Majors With The Exception Of The EURO Friday June 17, 6:02 pm ET GBP NEWS The pound traded firmly against the majors with the exception of the EUR where it suffered a major correction today. The pound accelerated its gains against the dollar on Friday, trading just below the 1.8300 price level. Heavy selling of sterling against the euro limited the U.K. currency's gains against the dollar. The dollar fell against the GBP and most other major currencies following news that the U.S. current account deficit widened to a record $195.1 billion in the first quarter. The deficit, running at a record 6.4 percent of gross domestic product, was wider than the $190 billion forecast by economists. The data draw attention to the extent to which the U.S. needs to attract large inflows of foreign capital to fund the deficit and are a reminder to traders of the dollar's structural weaknesses. The dollar couldn't get much traction from the University of Michigan's preliminary June consumer sentiment index, which rose to 94.8 from 86.9 in May. Economists had expected a reading of 89.0.Despite a recent mixed bag of U.S. economic data, the dollar has been supported this month by a steady chorus of Fed officials suggesting that U.S. interest rates still have room to rise, even after a series of eight straight rate increases. Gilts managed to bounce well, after being down to 111.81 yesterday morning. Among the attractions of the pound aside from yield is the fact the UK has its election season behind it while the Eurozone leaders are pitching into a bruising battle over the bloc's long-term future. They decided to allow more time to ratify the new EU constitution, rejected by French and Dutch voters and triggering the euro's decline. Additionally, a treasury's report earlier this week showed foreign investors purchased U.S. assets at a slower-than-expected pace in April. International investors bought a net $47.4 billion in Treasury notes, corporate bonds, stocks and other financial assets that month, compared with the median forecast of $70 billion in a Bloomberg News survey. Both hourly and daily indicators look a bit depressed at the moment. Market needs to hold above the figure now. Indexes advanced in all 17 major Western European markets except Sweden, Belgium and Greece. Germany's DAX Index gained 0.5 percent and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 Index increased 0.7 percent. France's CAC 40 Index added 0.9 percent. Greece's ASE General Index lost 0.4 percent as Cosmote SA fell. The FTSE 100 blue-chip index closed up 32.6 points, or 0.7 percent, at 5,077.6 points, having earlier hit 5,098.5. The index, which has risen 3.75 percent so far this quarter as the half-year mark looms, gained traction during the expiry of FTSE options and futures during mid-morning trade, which investors used as an opportunity to close out of short positions. Strength in the energy sector accounted for the bulk of the rise, with gains of near 1.5 percent for BP and BG and 2 percent for Shell adding 13 points to the leading index as oil rose as much as 2.7 percent to $58.10 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, for a three-day gain of 5.5 percent. Prices, up 49 percent from a year ago, reached a record $58.28 on April 4. BHP, the world's biggest miner, rose 1.3 percent to 725 pence. Total, Europe's largest oil refiner increased 1.5 percent to 194 euros. Crude prices may rise next week as producers including OPEC struggle to meet surging demand from refiners, a Bloomberg survey shows. Thirty-five of 68 analysts and strategists surveyed by Bloomberg, or 51 percent, said oil prices will rise next week. Eighteen, or 26 percent, said they will fall, and 15 forecast little change. In U.K. initial public offerings, satellite services group Inmarsat PLC said it has priced its IPO at 245 pence a share, the top of the range, which will give the company a market capitalization of 1.12 billion pounds and raise net proceeds of 355 million pounds.

	AP EU Talks on Its Future Budget Collapse Friday June 17, 6:27 pm ET By Beth Gardiner, Associated Press Writer   EU Talks on Its Future Budget Collapse After Britain Refuses to Surrender Annual Rebate BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Talks on the European Union's budget collapsed in acrimony Friday after Britain refused to relinquish its annual rebate, diplomats said. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had said he would only consider changes to the rebate -- worth about $5.5 billion annually -- if the European Union agreed to overhaul agricultural spending, which accounts for more than 40 percent of the EU's budget. Diplomats said the Netherlands and Sweden also demanded relief, complaining their annual payments to the bloc were too high. The failure to agree on a budget for 2007-2013 deepens the sense of crisis triggered by the French and Dutch referendums in which voters rejected a proposed EU constitution, and reinforces impressions that the 50-year process of EU integration has lost direction. Blair argued it is necessary to balance the outsized agricultural subsidies that flow far more generously to France and other continental countries than to Britain. France in particular insisted that Britain's rebate -- won two decades ago by Margaret Thatcher -- should be eliminated. The budget dispute soured the second day of summit negotiations, pitting Britain against France. It came a day after EU leaders worked to salvage the proposed EU constitution by extending a November 2006 deadline for ratifying the charter. Blair rejected a plan floated by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, the summit host, calling it too ambiguous regarding reforms of farm spending. A British diplomat told The Associated Press that five nations -- Britain, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain -- voted against Juncker's proposal for different reasons. Italy and Denmark abstained, said the diplomat who asked not to be named. Juncker had suggested raising the rebate to $6.7 billion, then freezing it until 2013, but Blair's spokesman said he did not offer enough in exchange. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso warned earlier this week that the European Union would face "paralysis" if it failed to restore momentum to its bid to adopt a constitution.

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	Reuters Stocks rise on jump in oil Friday June 17, 7:29 pm ET By Mark McSherry NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended higher on Friday, helped by a jump in energy and mining companies' shares as oil and metals prices soared to record highs, while an index of consumer confidence rose for the first time this year. Stock investors jumped on the commodities bandwagon, snapping up Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM - News) and rival oil company ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP - News), which helped push the broad S&P 500 into positive territory for the year. Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, rose 1.3 percent to $60.89 and ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP - News) gained 3.6 percent to $60.68, after U.S. oil futures hit a fresh intraday record at $58.60 a barrel. Caterpillar Inc.(NYSE:CAT - News), which gave the biggest lift to the blue-chip Dow, rose almost 2 percent to $100.20, as the heavy equipment maker benefited from the boom in mining and metals prices. Copper futures hit a record in London and repeatedly set 16-year highs in New York. "Oil up a buck-and-a-half is helping the energy stocks," said Peter Boockvar, equity strategist at Miller Tabak & Co., in an interview before the oil futures trading session ended. The Dow Jones industrial average (^DJI - News) ended up 44.42 points, or 0.42 percent, at 10,623.07. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index (CBOE:^SPX - News) closed higher by 6.00 points, or 0.50 percent, at 1,216.96. The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index (NasdaqSC:^IXIC - News) edged up 0.96 of a point, or 0.05 percent, to 2,090.11. For the week, the Dow was up 1.05 percent, the S&P 500 rose 1.57 percent and the Nasdaq climbed 1.31 percent. After the bell, shares of Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ - News) slipped to $65.76 on the Inet electronic brokerage network after the health-care products company said it was continuing talks with Guidant regarding a recall of some of the implantable heart defibrillators that Guidant makes. Johnson & Johnson, a Dow component, ended the regular session up 0.4 percent at $66.56. CONSUMERS SPEND, OIL RISES "The consumer has a bit more confidence and is out there spending money," said Joseph Battipaglia, chief investment officer for brokerage and research firm Ryan, Beck & Co. On Friday morning, Wall Street got good news when the University of Michigan's early reading on consumer confidence for June rose to 94.8 for its first gain this year, market sources said, well ahead of May's reading of 86.9 and higher than analysts had expected. "The only impediment that's still up there is, of course, the price of oil," Battipaglia said. While high oil prices are generally negative for stocks -- and indeed trimmed the market's gains in afternoon trading -- they help energy companies' profits. Oil prices set a new record of $58.60 a barrel during the NYMEX session after the United States and other Western nations shut consulates in oil-producing Nigeria following a terrorist threat. U.S. crude for July delivery settled at a record $58.47, up $1.89. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA - News), the world's largest aluminum producer and another Dow component, rose 1.2 percent, or 32 cents, to $28.25 as aluminum prices stayed at lofty levels. On the Nasdaq, Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NasdaqNM:MLNM - News) jumped nearly 14 percent, or $1.14, to $9.40 against a backdrop of speculation that the company could be a takeover candidate, analysts said. On Thursday, Millennium said the New England Journal of Medicine published positive reports on two of its products, an oncology drug, Velcade, and MLN02, an investigative treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases. INVESTORS IGNORE DEFICIT Home builders' shares also gained. Smith Barney raised its ratings on six home builders, including KB Home (NYSE:KBH - News), which posted a 78 percent rise in quarterly earnings on Thursday. KB rose 6.9 percent, or $5, to $77.25 and Pulte Homes Inc. (NYSEHM - News) gained 4.6 percent, or $3.75, to $86. Among decliners, Adobe Systems Inc. (NasdaqNM:ADBE - News) weighed on the Nasdaq, sliding 3.3 percent, or $1.07, to $31.34, a day after the company provided an outlook that was not as aggressive as investors had hoped. Stock markets shrugged off news that the U.S. current account deficit -- the broadest measure of U.S. trade with the rest of the world -- hit a record $195.1 billion in the first quarter. Volume was high as Friday marked quadruple witching -- the quarterly expiration of four different types of June futures and options contracts. Expiration can lead to greater volume and volatility as investors adjust or exercise their derivative positions. The New York Stock Exchange said first-hour volume reached an all-time high of 704,370,000 shares. By the close, about 1.94 billion shares had been traded on the New York Stock Exchange, well above the 1.46 billion daily average for last year. On Nasdaq, about 2.11 billion shares were traded, above the 1.81 billion daily average last year. Advancers outnumbered decliners on the New York Stock Exchange by about 5 to 3. But on Nasdaq, decliners edged out advancers by about 16 to 15.

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	AP 欧共体谈话在它的未来预算崩溃 星期五6月17 日, 下午6:27 东部时间 由Beth Gardiner, 美联社作家   欧共体谈话在它的未来预算崩溃在不列颠拒绝投降每年折扣之后 布鲁塞尔, 比利时(AP) -- 谈话在欧共体的预算崩溃了在尖酸星期五在不列颠拒绝放弃它的每年折扣之后, 外交人士说。 英国的总理托尼・布莱尔说他只会考虑对折扣的变动-- 价值大约$5.5 十亿年年-- 如果欧共体同意翻修农业消费, 哪些占超过欧共体的预算的百分之40 。 外交人士说荷兰和瑞典并且要求了安心, 抱怨他们的每年付款对团体太高的。 疏忽同意预算在2007-2013 加深危机感觉由选民拒绝一部提出的欧共体宪法的法国和荷兰公民投票触发, 并且加强印象, 欧共体综合化的50 年过程丢失了方向。 布莱尔争论了它是必要平衡更加慷慨地流动到法国和其它大陆国家比到不列颠的outsized 农业补贴。 法国特别是坚持, 不列颠的折扣-- 被赢取的二十年前由Margaret 撒切尔-- 应该被消灭。 预算争执变酸了第二天山顶交涉, 点蚀不列颠反对法国。 它来了一天在欧共体领导以后在延长服务抢救提出的欧共体宪法2006 年11月最后期限旁边为批准宪章。 布莱尔拒绝了计划由卢森堡总理吉恩克劳德・Juncker 漂浮, 山顶主人, 称它太模棱两可关于农厂消费改革。 英国的外交官告诉了美联社五个国家-- 不列颠, 芬兰, 瑞典, 荷兰和西班牙-- 投票反对Juncker 的提案为不同的原因。 意大利和丹麦戒了, 的外交官说要求不命名。 Juncker 建议了提高折扣到$6.7 十亿, 然后冷冻它直到2013 年, 但布莱尔的发言人说他没有提供足够在交换。 欧共体Jose Manuel Barroso 总统本星期初警告了, 欧共体会面对"麻痹" 如果它没有恢复动量对它的出价采取宪法 在线翻译过来的希望不会误导我们

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	我也试一下： 每日FX 磅牢固地换了反对少校除欧洲之外 星期五6月17 日, 下午6:02 东部时间 GBP 新闻 磅牢固地换了反对少校除它今天遭受一个主要更正的EUR 之外。 在星期五磅加速了它的获取对美元, 换在1.8300 物价水平之下。 抛售对欧洲的英镑限制了U 。K 。 货币的获取对美元。 美元落反对GBP 和多数其它主要货币从事U 的新闻。S 。 往来帐户亏损加宽了到记录$195.1 十亿在第一季度。 缺乏, 跑在国民生产总值的一记录百分之6.4, 比$190 十亿宽的由经济学家展望。 数据引起注意在U 的程度上。S 。 需要吸引外资大流入资助缺乏和是提示对美元的结构弱点的贸易商。 美元不能得到牵引从密执安大学初步6月消费者情绪索引, 哪些上升到94.8 从86.9 在5月。 经济学家期待了读书89.0 。尽管一个最近混杂的袋子U 。S 。 经济数据, 美元由Fed 官员平稳的合唱支持了这个月建议那U 。S 。 利率仍然有室上升, 在一系列的八平直的率增量以后。 镀金面设法弹起很好, 在昨天早晨是以后下来到111.81 。 在磅的吸引力之中除出产量之外是英国有它的竞选季节在它之后的事实当Eurozone 领导投入一次挫伤的争斗在团体的长期未来期间。 他们决定允许更多时刻批准新欧共体宪法, 由French 和荷兰人选民和触发拒绝欧洲衰落。 另外, 财宝的报告本星期初显示了外国投资者被购买的U 。S 。 财产在慢比期望的节奏在4月。 国际投资者买了净$47.4 十亿在国库券, 公司债券, 股票和其它金融性资产月, 比较中间展望$70 十亿在Bloomberg 新闻调查。 每小时和每日显示看起来一有点当时降低。 市场需要现在举行在图之上。 索引推进了在所有17 个主要西欧市场上除了瑞典, 比利时和希腊。 德国的DAX 索引获取了百分之0.5 和U 。K 。' s FTSE 100 索引增加了百分之0.7 。 法国的CAC 40 索引增加了百分之0.9 。 希腊的ASE 一般索引丢失了百分之0.4 当SA Cosmote 下跌。 FTSE 100 蓝筹索引关闭了32.6 点, 或百分之0.7, 在5,077.6 点, 有更加早期的命中5,098.5 。 索引, 哪些到目前为止上升了百分之3.75 这个处所作为half-year 标记织布机, 被获取的牵引在FTSE 选择和未来期间终止在上午贸易期间, 哪个投资者使用了作为机会关闭在短期职位外面。 力量在能源部门占上升的大多数, 以近的百分之1.5 为BP 和BG 和百分之2 获取为壳增加13 点来主导的索引作为油玫瑰色尽量百分之2.7 到$58.10 在纽约商人汇兑, 为百分之5.5 3 天的获取。 价格, 百分之49 从一年前, 到达了记录$58.28 在4月4 日。 BHP, 世界的最大的矿工, 上升了百分之1.3 到725 个便士。 共计, 欧洲的最大的石油去渣机增加了百分之1.5 对194 欧元。 原油价格也许上升下个星期如同生产商包括石油输出国组织奋斗适应涌起的需要从去渣机, Bloomberg 调查展示。 三十五68 个分析员和战略家由Bloomberg 勘测, 或百分之51, 前述油价将上升下个星期。 十八, 或百分之26, 前述他们将落, 并且15 展望了少量变化。 在U 。K 。 最初的公开奉献物, 卫星服务小组Inmarsat PLC 认为它定价它的IPO 在245 个便士份额, 范围的上面, 哪些将给公司1.12 十亿磅的市场资本化和将提高355 百万磅净收益。