Lloyds leads FTSE 100 higher as HSBC drops after profit slump London-listed stocks jumped on Monday, with the FTSE 100 up 2.3% led by banking and finance names such as Lloyds Banking Group finishing 6% higher and NatWest Group up 4.8%. The gains came amid the news that rival HSBC is planning to accelerate its…
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Thomas Goff has also joined the organisation as Junior Operations Analyst, working with Gold-i’s Support and Operations teams, assisting with client queries as well as performing installs and upgrades across all Gold-i products. Prior to Gold-i, he was a Junior Analyst in Virgin’s Financial Business Partner & FP&A team. In addition, Grace Butler has been appointed as Marketing…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Shares opened mostly higher in Europe following strong bullish momentum from the Asian trading session on Tuesday. Yesterday’s reassuring manufacturing PMIs in Europe followed by positive data in the US combined with lower virus cases in some states, have lifted global market sentiment higher. In addition, the current risk appetite is also sustained…
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FTSE 100 tumbles back as UK opening pauses London-listed shares tumbled last week, with the FTSE 100 sinking by 3.7%, taking its year-to-date loss back past 20%. The postponement of further easing of lockdown restrictions in England was one factor affecting sentiment, as was the news that the Eurozone economy shrank at its fastest rate…
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FTSE 100 back below 6,000 on struggling banks and US economic woes Financial firms led the FTSE 100 2.3% lower on Thursday amid profit warnings from Lloyds Bank, the UK’s largest retail bank, and jitters caused by dire GDP data from Germany and the US. The FTSE 250 meanwhile was down a more modest 1.3%.…
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PayPal CEO says ‘no going back’ from pandemic induced e-commerce surge Boeing’s earnings report appeared to take airline stocks down with it yesterday, as American Airlines and United Airlines both sank by around 3% on a day where the broader market soared. The Nasdaq Composite was up 1.4%, helped higher by names including AMD, PayPal…
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LR: A key part of your role is to optimise the client’s setup for pricing and execution. Is this an area that the technology vendors would normally get involved with? Daniel: Much of the value a PoP should offer is in helping clients set up their environment to get the best out of the existing…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European contracts traded lower on Thursday as market sentiment remains uncertain ahead of today’s slew of corporate results. The Fed’s extremely dovish tone yesterday was already largely priced in and didn’t lead to extreme price action on stock markets. Even though Jay Powell pledged to keep the macro environment extremely accommodative using all…
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UK housebuilders soar ahead of mortgage data release London-listed housebuilders and property developers jumped yesterday, with Berkeley Group, Barratt Developments, Land Securities Group, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey all among the top 10 FTSE 100 stocks on the day. The rally came ahead of data on June mortgage lending and approvals, which is released for the…
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EUROPEAN SHARES European stock markets continued their consolidation on Wednesday, following an Asian trading session without clear direction. Even if global fiscal and monetary stimulus provided investors with some sort of insurance against deeper market corrections, the current busy macro environment makes short-term market predictions very difficult for traders. The current lack of market directionality…
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