Black Beauty: A thoroughbred quadruped?

So the Dow rises over 100pts yesterday, it falls 10pts so far today on mildly disappointing consumer confidence figures in the U.S. - and we struggle to rise 10pts.

It is a pattern repeating itself very frequently meaning the Dow is starting to get back to 2000 highs but we're languishing still 40% lower.Weakness of the dollar has quite a bit to do with it or the Dow is overvalued/FTSE undervalued.There is a growing disparity!

I see Lloyds gained one or two New Year accolades from a few of the scribblers over the week end - Express etc.

maxi/firmy - Matalan doing nicely!