Europe Markets 3/18/2008 (ALU)(SI)(BCS)

March 18, 2008 by Douglas A. McIntyre

Markets in Europe were up sharply at 7.30 AM New York time.

The FTSE rose 2% to 5,523. Barclays (BCS) is up 3.4% to 406. British Airways was up 4.1% to 226.5.

The DAXX moved up 2.2% to 6,315. DeutscheBank (DB) was up 4.3% to 68.88. Siemens (SI) was up 5.4% to 70.

The CAC 40 rose 1.8% to 4,512. Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) was up 3.1% to 3.34. Credit Agricole moved up 7% to 18.06.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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