FTSE ends day with slump as Wall Street’s Nasdaq plunges nearly three per cent May 4, 2021 The FTSE 100 slipped back below the 7,000 point mark by the market close, despite a strong start to the week’s trading after the Bank Holiday weekend. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index fell 0.67 per cent by the end of the day, with banking stocks, including HSBC Holdings, Barclays and Standard Chartered posing the biggest drag on [...]
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Majority of at-risk listed firms claimed government Covid support even as some neared collapse March 25, 2021 More than half of listed firms most at-risk of going bust claimed Covid support from government
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Women’s Day: Female leaders speak out as Covid threatens glass ceiling March 8, 2021 As the world comes together to celebrate International Women’s Day, the fight for gender equality enters a defining era. Today is a celebration of empowerment and inspiration, but tomorrow is even more important. The recent news that all-male boards had disappeared from the FTSE 350 was a win for diversity, but the economic challenges posed [...]
Morning Wire TV: Daily Market Snapshot (video) February 26, 2021 There was a sharp shift in tone in markets yesterday, with the back-up in bond yields causing significant disruption in the equity market. Of note, that disruption spread beyond the tech and growth sectors – with weakness in all 11 S&P500 sectors, all 24 S&P500 industry groups, and all the key US headline equity indices [...]
Morning Wire TV: Daily Market Snapshot (video) February 24, 2021 Sector behaviour in the global markets is currently unusually divergent. Key cyclical sectors across the globe are making new highs: UK & US airline sectors, for example, have rallied sharply in recent trading sessions to new multi month highs; the UK’s FTSE basic materials sector is at new multi-year highs, while the global banks sector [...]
Morning Wire TV: Daily Market Snapshot (video) February 23, 2021 Following false breakouts in markets last week, downside momentum continued to build yesterday.
Wall Street indexes follow FTSE 100 rise to end week on a high February 19, 2021 Wall Street follows FTSE 100 rise to end week on a high
Are investors adjusting to the new normal? December 18, 2020 | City Talk Potential for recovery following Covid-19 and trends which have accelerated as a result of it give many reasons for optimism heading into 2021 The list of reasons for investor uncertainty heading into 2021 remains long. A global pandemic. Lockdowns. Volatile markets. Political turbulence. Uncertainty over jobs and the economy. Record levels of government borrowing – [...]