Hot/Cold Sectors
Sector movers: Utilities and Electricity shares fall as bond yields grind higher
Interest rate sensitive Utilities and Electricity shares were knocked lower on Wednesday by a renewed rise in longer-term government bond yields on either side of the Atlantic.
Sector movers: Travel stocks slip on geopolitics, crude prices
Travel and Leisure names paced losses on the FTSE 350 at the start of the holiday-shortened week.
Sector movers: Utilities pummeled, Aerospace and Defence seen impervious to politics
The Utilities sector was pummelled after the Chancellor announced general elections for 4 July, instead of in autumn as many analysts had anticipated.
Sector movers: Stocks slip amid light profit-taking
Stocks ended a tad lower as investors waited on a raft of US central bank speakers scheduled for after the close of markets in London.
Sector movers: Miners pace gains
Miners fared best at the end of the week as metals' prices, in particular, continued to race higher.
Sector movers: Stocks keep pushing higher as Gilt yields dip
Interest rate sensitive areas of the market were again to the fore on Wednesday, helping London's main stock market gauges set fresh record highs.
Sector movers. Shares buoyed by speculation around June Bank Rate cut
Interest rate sensitive areas of the market fared best on Tuesday as softer jobs data and comments from the Bank of England's chief economist led some economists to reiterate their forecasts for a June rate cut.
Sector movers: Aerospace and Defence, Pharma pace gains
London's main stock market gauges continued to push higher in the middle of the week, even as investors waited on the Bank of England's policy announcement on the following day.
Sector movers: Defensives pace gains
Shares of electricity companies paced gains on the FTSE 350 on Tuesday as investors continued to shift back into longer-dated government bond yields on either side of the Pond.
Sector movers: Oil, Autos drag on FTSE 350
Weakness in the oil patch and among select cyclicals dragged on the FTSE 350 in the middle of the week.