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The focus in financial markets in the middle of the week will shift back towards Asia, where official statistics for consumer and factory prices are due out. Brexit negotiations and the tech slump in the States won’t be far from investors’ minds however. Also in the US, the Department of …

European shares finished sharply lower amid continued heaving selling in tech stocks and more concerns about Britain’s belligerent stance on Brexit trade talks. The pan-European Stoxx 600 fell 1.15% alongside falls of 1.78% for the Ibex 35 and of 1.81% for the FTSE Mibtel. London’s FTSE 100 was down was …

FirstGroup was in the red, having surged on Monday following a Sunday Telegraph report that its US operations have attracted interest from several major private equity firms. Housebuilder Vistry was weaker after it posted an 86% slump in first-half adjusted pre-tax profit as it was “significantly” by the Covid-19 lockdown …

Technology products provider Oxford Instruments said on Tuesday that it had managed to record modest order growth during the first five months of trading despite the Covid-19 pandemic. Oxford Instruments said the coronavirus outbreak had continued to have an impact on trading, with cumulative revenues down 2% year-on-year. However, the …

Wall Street futures were pointing to a mixed session ahead of the bell on Friday following the previous session’s tech bloodbath and ahead of the newest edition of the Labor Department‘s closely watched non-farm payrolls report. As of 1230 BST, Dow Jones futures were up 0.22%, while S&P 500 and …

Dispute financing company Litigation Capital Management (LCM) has executed a portfolio finance agreement, it announced on Monday, to provide a “significant” finance facility to a subsidiary of a global building and infrastructure contractor, to fund a portfolio of its construction claims. The AIM-traded firm said the large corporate portfolio transaction …

Activity levels at both US factories and among services sector firms picked up substantially in August, according to the results of two closely-followed surveys. IHS Markit‘s manufacturing sector Purchasing Managers’ Index jumped from July’s reading of 50.9 to 53.6 for August (consensus: 51.5). Services activity also accelerated, with the PMI …

London’s FTSE 250 was up 0.1% at 17,508.76 in afternoon trade on Friday. HGCapital Trust was a high riser after saying it will invest around £17.1m in Norwegian enterprise software group Visma. On the downside, oilfield services company Petrofac was in the red after a downgrade to ‘market perform’ from …

Valve manufacturer Rotork was on the back foot as its stock went ex-dividend. Frasers Group, formerly Sports Direct, gained after saying it plans to spend £100m on its digital elevation strategy and forecasting a 10-30% improvement in underlying core earnings next year as 2020 profits fell by a fifth due …

Wildwood restaurant chain owner Tasty said on Tuesday it would open around 86% of its estate this month having cut its workforce by more than 30%, as it considered an equity raising and warned of a “challenging” market. The firm said it remained “extremely cautious” regarding trading in September and …