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| Equity Market News | 05th July 2008 | |
Equity Org Headlines:Crude prices gain but precious metals declineBarratt announces 1,000 job losses Investment banking jobs get the chop at Goldman and Citigroup ECB raises Eurozone interest rates 7,000 jobs to go at American Airlines General Motors shares slump to 54-year low Crude oil, copper in new highs M&S warns of tough times ahead Taylor Wimpey fails to secure funding, shares fall 46% USD, pound weaken |
16/09/05London strong on double witching hourIn the London equities markets, both the FTSE 100 and the FTSE 250 finished both the day and the week on a positive note. The FTSE 100 gained 0.4 percent on the day and 0.9 percent on the week to 5,407.9 at the close of trade on Friday. The FTSE 250 was up 0.4 percent for the day and 0.6 percent for the week to 7,901.6. Volume was a very high 4.1 billion shares traded, explained by a double witching hour in which both stock options and index futures on the main index expired. Miners were up on the day as gold reached a 17-year high. BHP Billiton and Anglo Pacific each gained 3.2 percent, to 873½p and 129½p respectively. Rio Tinto was up 3.8 percent on the day and 10 percent on the week to £21.49, while Anglo American advanced by 5.1 percent to £15.54. Mergers and acquisitions rumors in the aerospace and defence sectors benefited defence group BAE Systems and jet engine maker Rolls-Royce. Rolls-Royce gained 3.4 percent to 370¾p and BAE was up 1.5 percent to 338p. Among declining stocks, Shire Pharmaceuticals lost 1.5 percent to 685p after a downgrade to “neutral” by UBS. |
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