Europe Market Report 9/29/2006 Brambles, ICAP, MAN, Mittal Steel Up

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European markets were modestly higher at 5.25 AM New York time.

The FTSE was up .5% to 5,949. Barclays was up .4% to 668. BP was up 1.3% to 586.5. Brambles was up 4.1% to 487.25. BT was flat at 260.25. GlaxoSmithKline was flat at 1426. Hanson was up 2.4% to 738.5. Icap was down 3.1% to 504.25. Prudential was up .9% to 642.5. Reuters was down 1.7% to 425.75. Unilever was down .1% to 1324. Vodafone was down .8% to 120.5.

The DAXX was up .1% to 5,994. BASF was down .6% to 62.95. Bayer was up .5% to 39.18. DaimlerChrysler was down .6% to 39.58. DeutscheBank was down .4% to 94.96. Deutsche Telekom was down .4% to 12.39. MAN was up 3.6% to 65.55. SAP was up 1% to 158.1. Siemens was up .7% to 69.07.

The CAC 40 was up .2% to 5,254. Alactel was up .7% to 9.66. AXA was flat at 29.4. France Telecom was down .4% to 17.9. Mittal was up 2.9% to 27.62. ST Micro was up 2.9% to 13.73. Vivendi was down .7% to 28.31.

Data from Reuters.

Douglas A. McIntyre