01.29.08, 6:37 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Thomson Financial) – Shares were higher in midday deals, with Corporate Express leading the gainers as hopes of a new cut in US interest rates pushed the AEX higher, trading sources said.
At 11.54 am, the AEX was up 7.72 points or 1.76 pct at 447.04.
Meanwhile, Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA – news – people ) bucked the trend and dropped 0.41 pct to 23.47.
KBC downgraded shares in the oil services group to ‘accumulate’ from ‘hold’ and said it would review its 24.47 eur target price after the oil company publishes its fourth quarter and full year results on Thursday.
A Daily Telegraph report today sparked concern the reserves numbers could be poor, saying that the group is to delay until May publication of key data about its oil reserves that it would normally have released alongside other figures.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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