Health names soar in Monday rally All three of the major US stock indices finished more than 3% up on Monday, with healthcare the best performing of the 11 sectors in the S&P 500. The sector gained 4.7%, driven by the healthcare technology and pharmaceutical sub-sectors, which gained 7.1% and 5.8% respectively. Hospital firm Universal…
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Hardest hit industries lead historic rally It was the sectors that have suffered the most in recent weeks that led Tuesday’s mammoth rally, with the S&P 500’s energy names rallying 16.3%, financials 12.8% and industrials 12.8%. Within the industrial sector, airlines had the best day with a 19% gain; Delta Air Lines climbed 21% despite…
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Semiconductor names a standout as stocks continue slide While the S&P 500 sank 2.9% on Monday, with ten of its 11 sectors in the red, chip makers were a rare bright spot. The semiconductors sub-sector of the Information Technology sector gained 4.1%, led by names including Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia which rose 8.2%,…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 13, 2020. Barclays reported a better than expected profit before tax of £6.2bn for 2019, up 9% year on year as its investment bank revealed bumper returns from fixed income trading. Investors weren’t doing much celebrating…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 29, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. US stock markets were closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday, and the session on Friday will end early, at 13:00…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 10, 2019. See details below: FOREX/ BREXIT The Pound is on the backfoot, losing ground to the Dollar, as Tuesday’s session gets under way. Today’s sterling losses follow the gains recorded yesterday, after another day of turmoil in Westminster. As…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for July 15, 2019. See details below: FOREX The Turkish Lira is under the spotlight, following this weekend’s downgrading of the country’s credit rating by Fitch. Basing its decision on the deterioration of institutional democracy and the loss of credibility of economic…
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Another day of record-breaking on Friday, the half-day session being the last trading day of 2017, with fresh highs for both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 while the AIM All-Share Index traded around its highest level since 2008, London Stock Exchange (LSE) reported. The FTSE 100 index closed up 0.9%, or 64.89 points at…
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Addition sees clients get Enchilada’s full 40+ corporate event datasets for FTSE 100, CAC 40, DAX30, Hang Seng 50, Nikkei 225, EAFE and Dow Jones STOXX 1000 constituent companies Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specializing in corporate event intelligence, today announced the expansion of its global dataset to include nearly 1,000 new companies.…
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Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced a new daily volume record of 3.35 million contracts for the Three Month Sterling (Short Sterling) futures contract set on June 15, 2017. The previous record was 2.89 million contracts set in June 2014. Earlier…
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