Home construction stocks were pacing gains on the stock market at the end of the week, benefitting from the tail-wind of the Bank of England’s policy meeting the day before, which saw rate-setters temper their outlook for interest rates. Berkeley Group Holdings, Barratt Developments and Taylor Wimpey were all near …
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London stocks had maintained gains by midday on Tuesday, having taken their opening cue from a positive close on Wall Street, with Royal Mail pacing the advance after a well-received update. The FTSE 100 was up 0.8% at 7,357.44, having slumped 2.6% on Monday amid growing tensions between Russia and …
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London’s FTSE 250 was down 1% at 19,501.42 in afternoon trade on Thursday. Investec lost ground even though the financial services company reinstated its dividend and forecast an improved second half after better-than-expected interim results. Cineworld shares slumped following a report the cinema chain is considering a company voluntary arrangement …
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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 …
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London’s second-tier index finished in the red yet again as investors took stock of the Chinese coronavirus’s continuing spread globally and after the US Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organisation called for measures to be put in place immediately to break its advance. Despite those warnings and a …
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