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Commodities: Energy, metal prices softer on Trump's address, China PMI
Base metals edged lower on Tuesday, although the US President Donald Trump called for $1. 5trn infrastructure spending in his first State of Union address.
Bonds: Bond yields flat as investors await FOMC verdict
These were the movements in some of the most widely followed 10-year sovereign bond yields:.
Commodities: Metals gain before Trump’s Union of State address
Base metals gained ahead of US President Donald Trump’s first State of Union address on Tuesday.
Broker tips: Shire, Ocado, Diageo
Shire's valuation makes no sense and investors should buy shares in the UK pharmaceuticals company, according to analysts at Societe Generale.
Results round-up
SThree, the increasingly internationally focussed recruiter, enjoyed a strong finish to its financial year as it moved its back office from London to Glasgow to trim costs.
Bonds: Busy economic calendar to set the tone this week
These were the movements in some of the most widely followed 10-year sovereign bond yields at the end of last week:.
Commodities: Industrial metals gain with zinc, gold steady
Three-month zinc futures on London Metal Exchange surged 3. 1% to $3’584 a ton, the highest level in more than a decade, after LME inventories slumped to the lowest levels since 2008.
Sunday share tips: EMIS Group, Ten Lifestyle Group, ZPG
Newspaper share tips from the Sunday Times' Inside the City column, the Sunday Telegraph's Questor and Mail on Sunday tipster Midas.
Sunday newspaper round-up: Rate hike, Brexit, profit warnings, buybacks, Sky
Stronger than expected growth numbers have fuelled expectations that another rise in interest rates is on the way, with City traders now seeing a May rise from the Bank of England as an even-money bet. The economy expanded by 0. 5% in the final quarter of 2017, according to official figures last week, faster than economists had forecast. - Sunday Times.
Commodities: Base metals pare gains on stronger US dollar, rising inventory
The bounce in the US dollar pulled commodity and metal prices down from multi-year highs on Thursday, amid the US President Donald Trump revealed his preference for strong US dollar in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Bonds: 10-year gilt yield flat before UK GDP
These were the movements in some of the most widely followed 10-year sovereign bond yields:.
Commodities: Weaker dollar boosts metals in 'best time for decades'
The weaker US dollar boosted metal and other commodity prices on Wednesday, after US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin endorsed the weaker dollar in a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Bonds: Eurozone yields tick higher before the ECB meeting
These were the movements in some of the most widely followed 10-year sovereign bond yields:.
Results round-up: CloudBuy, Hotel Chocolat
Cloud-based e-commerce marketplace and business-to-business buyer and supplier solutions provider cloudBuy updated the market on trading on Wednesday.
Commodities: Oil rally stalls on surprise rise in US crude inventories
West Texas Intermediate futures rose by 1. 8% to $64. 88 per barrel on Tuesday, to the highest level since December 2014. Brent crude futures topped at $70. 24 per barrel, for a gain of 1. 6%.
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Markets warning, UK defence review, Brexit, Apple
Stock markets are failing to price risks correctly, leading bankers and investors have warned. “Equity markets are at an all-time high. Volatility at an all-time low. That is not a sustainable position,” Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays, said at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. - The Times.
Bonds: UK gilts ‘far more skeptical about Brexit progress’ than the pound
These were the movements in some of the most widely followed 10-year sovereign bond yields:.
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Bookies, cyber-attacks, builders' warning, Barclays
Big bookmakers are weighing up the possibility of legal action against the government after suggestions that ministers have decided to cut the maximum stakes on betting machines from £100 to £2. The reports spooked investors, who had been forecasting a cut in the maximum stake to £20. - The Times.
Sunday share tips: Diageo, Boohoo, Unilever
Shares in Diageo are not cheap but were a 'buy' for the Sunday Times' Inside the City column, which advised stocking them away in your cellar like prize bottle of whisky. The spirits and Guinness maker has been shaken and stirred during since chief Ivan Menezes took the helm in the summer of 2013. He joined amid a lull in American demand for traditional Scotch and vodka, two of the company's key products. Instead, the trend was moving towards 'craft' bourbons and micro distilleries.
Sunday newspaper round-up: Customs union, PFI fallout, GKN, Dixons, banks
Britain's lobbying group for business leaders is on a collision course with the government as its chief prepares to call for the UK to remain in “a customs union” with the European Union after Brexit. In a major speech on Monday, Carolyn Fairbairn, the Confederation of British Industry’s director general, is expected to claim that “remaining in a customs union for as long as it serves us to do so” is “consistent” with the Leave vote in the EU referendum and “would be good for EU firms”.