Stephen Carroll

British politics now has five parties polling at similar levels, making the outcome of May's local elections highly uncertain.

And those are your top stories in the programme this morning.

On the markets, the stock 600 down by two tenths of 1%.

NASDAQ futures and S&P E-mini futures on Wall Street, though, pointing higher.

S&P E-minis up three tenths.

NASDAQ futures half a percent higher.

Silver prices pairing their earlier losses now just down eight tenths of 1%.

So over $91 and out.

Oil prices, though, continuing to hold on to much of the weakness from yesterday.

Brent crude is up by half of 1%, trading just above $64 a barrel.

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