Market Report - Opening
London open: Stocks edge down; Marshalls slides on profit warning
London stocks edged lower in early trade on Monday as investors mulled the latest Chinese manufacturing data and news of further measures from authorities in China to boost consumption.
London open: Stocks edge up as investors mull BoJ shift; StanChart rallies
London stocks edged higher in early trade on Friday as investors mulled a policy shift from the Bank of Japan and results from the likes of NatWest, Standard Chartered and IAG.
London open: Stocks edge up amid earnings avalanche
London stocks edged higher in early trade on Thursday as investors mulled the latest policy announcement from the Federal Reserve and waded through an avalanche of earnings.
London open: Stocks steady amid raft of earnings, ahead of Fed
London stocks were steady in early trade on Wednesday as investors waded through a raft of earnings and looked ahead to the latest policy announcement from the Federal Reserve.
London open: Stocks tick higher as miners, Unilever advance
London stocks nudged up in early trade on Tuesday, with miners on the front foot, and Unilever boosted by well-received second-quarter results.
London open: Stocks start week on a mixed note
London stocks began the week on a mixed note, after a lacklustre session on Wall Street to close out last week.
London open: Stocks slip heading into central bank decisions
Stocks were mixed at the start of the session, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street on the back of the latest quarterly results out of Netflix and Tesla.
London open: Stocks gain as miners rally
London stocks rose in early trade on Thursday, albeit gains were much more muted than in the previous session, when a softer-than-expected UK inflation print saw the top-flight index enjoy its best day of the year so far.
London open: Housebuilders pace gains as inflation eases more than expected
London stocks rallied in early trade on Wednesday, with housebuilders pacing the gains after data showed a bigger-than-expected decline in consumer price inflation, easing pressure on the Bank of England to keep hiking rates.
London open: FTSE little changed but Ocado, Darktrace surge
London stocks were little changed in early trade on Tuesday as investors eyed the latest US retail sales data and big earnings releases across the pond, as well as this week’s UK inflation figures.
London open: Miners pace the decline as China GDP disappoints
London stocks edged lower in early trade on Monday, with miners under the cosh after disappointing Chinese growth figures.
London open: Stocks flat as investors eye US bank earnings
London stocks were steady in early trade on Friday as investors eyed earnings across the pond from JPMorgan, Citigroup and Wells Fargo.
London open: Stocks nudge down as investors mull GDP
London stocks nudged lower in early trade on Thursday as investors mulled the latest UK GDP data.
London open: Stocks rise as investors eye US inflation data
London stocks rose in early trade on Wednesday following a positive close on Wall Street, as investors eyed the latest US inflation data.
London open: Stocks flat as investors mull wage growth
London stocks were steady in early trade on Tuesday as the latest UK jobs data showed a jump in wage growth that’s expected to maintain pressure on the Bank of England to hike interest rates.
London open: Stocks little changed after China data
London stocks were little changed in early trade on Monday as investors mulled disappointing data out of China.
London open: Stocks fall as investors eye payrolls
London stocks fell in early trade on Friday amid rate hike concerns, as investors mulled the latest UK house price data and awaited the release of the US non-farm payrolls report.
London open: Stocks fall after hawkish Fed minutes
London stocks fell in early trade on Thursday as investors mulled the latest minutes from the US Federal Reserve, which suggested that more rate hikes were on the cards.
London open: Stocks fall as China data disappoints
London stocks fell in early trade on Wednesday after the release of disappointing Chinese data, and as investors eyed the latest minutes from the Federal Reserve and a reading on the UK services sector.
London open: Stocks flat; housebuilders hit by JPM note
London stocks were steady in early trade on Tuesday, with the session likely to be fairly quiet as US markets will be closed for Independence Day, and as investors mulled news of China’s export restrictions on metals.