What to watch US markets are closed on Monday for a public holiday. JD Sports Fashion: Tomorrow, London-listed JD Sports Fashion will release its latest quarterly earnings. The firm is ahead of the broader market year-to-date, although its share price is still down 14.6%. Back in April the company scrapped its final dividend and chairman…
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What to watch Note: US stock markets are closed on Monday due to a public holiday. Jobs report: With minimal earnings news, all eyes will be on August’s US jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The report will include data on nonfarm payrolls – a measure of the number of US…
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What to watch Broadcom: Semiconductor and infrastructure software firm Broadcom has seen its share price jump 18.7% year-to-date, including a 4% rally on Wednesday, the day before its latest quarterly earnings report. The near $150bn market cap firm has found some of its services and products, which are used to help build and maintain IT…
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What to watch Crowdstrike: Cyber-security firms have been one of the major beneficiaries of the pandemic as businesses’ security needs have shifted dramatically with most employees working from home. US company Crowdstrike, whose website bears the slogan “we stop breaches”, has ridden that wave to a 188% share price gain in 2020 so far. The…
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Double digit gainers in FTSE 100 despite loss for week UK markets were closed for the bank holiday on Monday. The FTSE 100 fell marginally last week, while the FTSE 250 added 1.2%, although there were two FTSE 100 stocks that posted double digit gains for the week. Industrial software firm Aveva added 19.5% driven…
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WPP jumps after reinstating dividend The FTSE 100 fell 0.8% on Thursday, with gains from companies including advertising firm WPP and British Airways parent IAG failing to outweigh losses from firms such as housebuilder Persimmon, chemicals firm Johnson Matthey and miner Anglo American. WPP stock jumped 6.6% as despite delivering a multi-billion pound loss, the…
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Doorstep lender Provident surges on hopes for unemployment business boost The FTSE 100 was flat on Wednesday, while the FTSE 250 gained 2%. Provident Financial was by and away the biggest winner in the FTSE 250, adding almost 20%, as the firm hopes to capitalise on surging unemployment to generate new business, per The Telegraph.…
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UK tech firm Aveva makes $5bn play for US rival The FTSE 100 fell by 1.1% on Tuesday, although no stock fell by more than 3.4%. Housebuilders, miners and oil giants were all in the red, with Anglo American down 3.3%, Taylor Wimpey down 3.1% and Royal Dutch Shell down 3%. At the top of…
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FTSE 100 continues heading sideways The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 once again struggled to find any momentum last week, sinking 1.5% and 0.9% respectively, as both indices continued to track sideways. UK economic data last week showed some improvement in a variety of areas, with positive retail sales growth, plus a marginal gain in…
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House of Fraser sets landlord ultimatum Thursday was a gloomy day for UK stocks, with the FTSE 100 sinking by 1.6% and the FTSE 250 off 0.5%. Asset managers were some of the names dragging the FTSE 100 lower, with Standard Life Aberdeen and M&G both sinking by more than 6%. Miners were down across…
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