Finance names were also a weight on the FTSE, with Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Chartered, Standard Life Aberdeen, M&G, Royal Bank of Scotland and Aviva all losing more than 2%. In the FTSE 250, 10 firms posted share price falls of more than 8%, including WH Smith Plc, Provident Financial, and Cineworld Group. At the…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Stocks opened higher everywhere in Europe on Tuesday, extending the gains at the end of yesterday’s trading session by US equities. This change in sentiment was triggered by investors noticing good signs on the virus front from California, ahead of the reopening of the state next Friday. Spain, France and Hong Kong are…
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Rolls-Royce looking at mass layoffs London-listed mid cap stocks outperformed their large cap counterparts last week, with the FTSE 250 gaining 2.9% to the FTSE 100’s 0.2%. In economic data, March car production in the UK fell 37.6% year-over-year, while mortgage approvals fell from 73,670 in February to 56,200 in March. Over the weekend, it…
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Firstly, clients often do this knowing that they are protected should their account reach a negative balance; either because the protection is mandated by regulators or knowing the difficulty brokers have collecting on negative balances. This gives the client a nearly risk-free trade with a large downside to the broker who still needs to honor…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Shares mainly opened higher on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be a very busy day for investors despite an uncertain mood following mixed earnings yesterday. Today’s market sentiment is likely to be shaken as traders struggle to find any fresh bullish drivers to the current rally amid a slew of major…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Stock markets in Europe lacked a clear direction on Tuesday following a similar trend on Asian benchmarks. The risk appetite is still alive this week but investors remain torn between reassuring data on the virus front and poor earnings results. Lower infection rates almost everywhere seem to suggest the market bottom may now…
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FTSE climbs, Tesco begins laying off temporary workers London-listed stocks mirrored the US with a positive start to the week yesterday, with the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 rallying by 1.6% and 1.7% respectively. Chancellor Rishi Sunak told Parliament that small businesses will get access to 100% taxpayer-backed loans of up to £50,000 that they…
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Investors also shrugged them off, with the FTSE 100 led higher by homebuilders. Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments and Persimmon were the top three performers in the index, all with daily gains of more than 8%. The surge was prompted by Taylor Wimpey announcing that its order book has grown, with recent cancellations accounting for less…
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In the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which fell 2.4% yesterday, Boeing, Dow and Walt Disney were among the bottom five performers, along with Chevron and Exxon. Disney fell 4.1% as investors reacted to its decision to stop paying more than 100,000 workers during the shutdown while still planning to pay a $1.5bn dividend, while Boeing…
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OIL The oil war combined with the devastating effect of the coronavirus-induced lockdown on economies has triggered a dramatic fall in the price of oil with WTI plunging to its lowest level in more than 20 years with the May contract sinking below $15. On top of that, there is a wide contango across contracts,…
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