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Investors scale down positions - Indices close broadly flat
Giles Watts, Head of Equities, City Index commented: "European markets closed broadly flat to negative on Tuesday as investors moved to scale down positions that had been built up over the last 4 weeks of equity gains.
1 year on from 2009 bottom, FTSE 100 rallies 62%
Joshua Raymond, Market Strategist, City Index commented: "European markets fell on Tuesday as investors decided to take some profits off the table after the last month's trading saw the FTSE 100 rally 11% and the DAX and CAC both rose 8% and 10% respectively.
Low growth environment offers plenty of opportunities
Companies that generate solid underlying organic growth will offer some of the best opportunities for investors as the UK domestic growth environment remains muted in the immediate future, says Sanjeev Shah, Manager of Fidelity International's Special Situations Fund.
Turquoise attracts 3 new investors
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has today sold nine per cent of its stake in the holding company for the merged Turquoise and Baikal businesses, to three global banking clients. Barclays Bank plc, J.P. Morgan Cazenove and Nomura have each bought three per cent stakes for £1 million in cash each.
European markets trade flat in quiet session
Joshua Raymond, Market Strategist, City Index commented:"European markets traded largely flat on Monday in a quiet session as strength in the heavyweight miners and energy sectors balanced weakness in banking and real estate stocks.
Average daily value traded up 25 per cent in February
The average daily value traded across London Stock Exchange Group's equity markets during February increased 25 per cent year on year to £7.4 billion (€8.5 billion). The average daily number of trades was 865,706, one per cent lower than February 2009.
European Indices gain on better jobs data
Joshua Raymond, Market Strategist, City Index commented: "European markets climbed on Friday after Non Farm Payrolls showed that the US lost less jobs than expected for February and the unemployment rate also fell to 9.7%, better than expected.
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Barclays Wealth is reissuing its popular core range of products for investors willing to accept an element of risk to their capital.
Prudential highest climber in the TD Waterhouse top ten
Angus Rigby, Chief Executive Officer, TD Waterhouse Comments: "Life insurer Prudential was the highest climbing new entry in the TD Waterhouse top ten buys table this week - reaching fourth position (10%) following its highly publicised bid to buy AIG's Asian business AIA.
European markets close flat ahead of tomorrow's US jobs data
Nick Serff, Market Analyst, City Index commented: "Britain's leading share index closed down 6.05 points or 0.11 percent on Thursday as investors consolidated recent gains ahead of tomorrow's US jobs data.
European Indices largely flat-negative - ADP eyed
Nick Serff, Market Analyst, City Index commented: "European share indices hovered around unchanged in early trade on Wednesday after Greece decided on extra austerity measures of 4.8 billion Euros to help meet its fiscal targets.
The winning formula for a FTSE 100 Chief Executive
New research by popular financial website Fool.co.uk reveals the vital statistics for the perfect FTSE 100 boss. Analysis of the ages, length of service and share price performances of FTSE 100 bosses shows:
Join TQ Invest Premier Club and get extra £50 cashback
Time is running out for investors, as the ‘extra £50 cashback' offer marking the launch of the TQ Invest ‘Premier Club' is now just weeks away from closing.
Investment in stocks and shares ISAs set to impress
Legal & General, one of the UK's largest stocks and shares ISA providers, anticipates the run up to the end of the 2009/2010 tax year is likely to show a marked return to stocks and shares ISA investment by individual savers.
$35.5bn deal for AIA sparks 11% fall in Prudential shares
Joshua Raymond, Market Strategist at City Index commented: "European Indices gained between 0.5% and 1% in early trade on Monday after strength in commodities on production suspensions from the massive earthquake in Chile helped to push the heavyweight miners higher.