Europe Markets December 15, 2006 France Telecom, BEA, Prudential Rise

Markets in Europe were up at 5.50 AM New York time.

The FTSE rose .4% to 6,254, its highest level since 2001 Barclays was up .7% to 727. BEA Systems was up 5.7% to 420. BP was up 1.2% to 583.5. BT rose .2% to 306. GlaxoSmithKline dropped .1% to 1345. Prudential was up 2.7% to 714.5  Reuters was up .4% to 454.25. Unilver was down .4% to 1393. Vodafone was down .9% to 143.5.

The DAXX was up .4% to 6,572. Bayer was flat at 40.49. Daimler was up .5% to 46.14. DeutscheBank was up .3% to 101.08. Deutsche Telekom was down .1% to 13.92. Siemens was down .1% to 73.91.

The CAC 40 was up .5% to 5,535. Alcatel was up 2.2% to 10.93. AXA was down .3% to 30.64. France Telecom was up 1.9% to 21.03. ST Micro was up .5% to 14.17. Vivendi was flat at 29.44.

Data from Reuters

Douglas A. McIntre