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London close: Bad day ends badly

Wed, 27th Oct 2010 16:12

London ended the day heavily in the red as a triple-digit fall on Wall Street knocked an attempted rally by Footsie firmly on the head.Reports suggesting that any new stimulus in the US will be smaller than expected hit the miners with Kazakhmys, Xstrata and Rio Tinto the worst performers.British American Tobacco's cigarette volumes rose in the Asia-Pacific region during the first nine months of 2010, but fell everywhere else as smokers cut back during the recession. The maker of Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall grew market share, but volumes fell 1% to 526bn. Ad agency WPP enjoyed its fastest growth in a decade in the last three months chief executive Sir Martin Sorrell said yesterday, as recovery in corporate earnings fed through into marketing spending. Banks provided some relief from the gloom, as they returned to favour following the bashing Bank of England governor Mervyn King gave them yesterday. Lloyds and Barclays were the strongest performers.GlaxoSmithKline was under the weather after it agreed yesterday to pay $750m to settle charges that it made unadulterated drugs like antidepressant Paxil at the plant between 2001 and 2005.Oil explorer Soco slumped after revealing it has had no more luck with its second well in the DR Congo than it had with its first. The firm will now plug and abandon the second well, Kinganga Nyanya 1, in the Nganzi Block. The well was drilled to 1,164 metres. Floor coverings retailer Carpetright said group sales declined 5.2% in the 12 weeks ended 23 October 2010 and warned it expects tough market conditions to continue into 2011. The closure of its operations in Poland accounted for 0.5% of the total revenue decline. UK and Republic of Ireland sales declined 4.6%, with like-for-like sales down 7.3%. FinnCap is a seller of the shares, saying the company "is being priced for a recovery that looks increasingly as though it is being deferred." KBC Peel Hunt is sticking with its "hold" recommendation and 700p price target, but has reassessed its forecast assumptions and reduced its 2011 estimated profit before tax from £31.7m to £28.2m.Another heavy faller was CSR, the Bluetooth chip specialist, despite a "robust" third quarter, but revenue in the fourth quarter is expected to lower than last year. Panmure Gordon thinks the net result may be that full year earnings will be around 4% below market consensus.DS Smith was in confident mood in the run up to December's interim results, which the paper and plastic packaging firm thinks will be way ahead of last year as the "encouraging" overall trading in the first quarter continued into the second.Helphire, which supplies replacement vehicles to drivers involved in accidents, is already predicting results for the year to June 2011 will be below current market expectations. The company, which only published its 2010 results at the start of this month, blames high petrol prices and fewer road miles for lower accident rates.Falklands oil explorers Desire Petroleum and Rockhopper Exploration have jointly contracted to use the seismic data retrieval vessel MV Polarcus Nadia on their adjacent licences in the North Falkland Basin.Panmure Gordon has initiated coverage of Rockhopper with a "buy" recommendation and a 530p price target. "We believe that the forthcoming drilling programme can demonstrate the potential value in this area," the broker said. Westhouse Securities, meanwhile, has reduced its price target for Desire to 109p to reflect the initial disappointment with the Rachel well, and also trimmed its Rockhopper target price to 492p. Within moments of the broker trimming its target price Desire had burst through it, hitting 150p at one stage this morning, on rumours that it either discovered oil or had received a bid approach. The shares have since come off the top but still show a healthy profit on the day. First Derivatives, a provider of software and support services to the financial services and technology industries, reported a 5.9% increase in first half pre-tax profit and is still confident of achieving full year results in line with market expectations.FTSE 100 - RisersBarclays (BARC) 282.30p +1.78%Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) 69.12p +1.66%Schroders (SDR) 1,525.00p +1.19%Schroders (Non-Voting) (SDRC) 1,227.00p +0.90%Amec (AMEC) 1,061.00p +0.76%FTSE 100 - FallersKazakhmys (KAZ) 1,321.00p -5.03%Vedanta Resources (VED) 2,066.00p -4.75%Xstrata (XTA) 1,264.00p -3.84%Invensys (ISYS) 299.60p -3.63%Lonmin (LMI) 1,736.00p -3.56%FTSE 250 - RisersTelecity Group (TCY) 501.50p +4.05%Halfords Group (HFD) 425.80p +3.96%Talvivaara Mining Company (TALV) 546.00p +2.54%Hansen Transmissions International NV (HSN) 41.50p +2.22%Avis Europe (AVE) 222.30p +2.11%FTSE 250 - FallersSoco International (SIA) 292.00p -10.65%CSR (CSR) 309.60p -10.34%Carpetright (CPR) 677.00p -7.26%St. Modwen Properties (SMP) 164.40p -6.06%PartyGaming (PRTY) 266.00p -5.30%
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