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London close: Greek concerns weigh on financials

Mon, 20th Jun 2011 16:43

The Footsie finished moderately lower on Monday afternoon as Greek debt crisis dragged on. Financials were among the fallers over concerns of a possible Greek default, as Europe's finance ministers remain at loggerheads over dishing out a chunk of the €110bn bailout money agreed last year for the country. RBS, Man Group, Hargreaves Lansdown and Schroders were the worst four performers on the London blue chip index as of Monday afternoon. Lloyds and Barclays were also heading lower. Not surprisingly, shares reacted with alarm at the continued impasse, especially banks. Barclays Capital (BarCap) said the destiny of Greece is now in the hands of the Greek parliament and the Greek population, with the key risks for markets now coming from the vote of confidence that the new, reshuffled Greek government is organizing. However, the notable faller of the day was Charter International on the FTSE 250. The engineering fell by over a quarter after it warned that figures for 2011 are expected to be below forecasts given in its last update in April as a mixed trading picture emerges. As such, Peel Hunt downgraded the stock to 'hold', from 'buy'.Packaging giant Rexam was unwanted after agreeing to sell its closures business for $360m (£222m) as it seeks to pay back its debts. Temporary power and temperature control provide Aggreko was also providing a drag despite seeing an acceleration in the rate of underlying growth in the second quarter. The oil sector is pressuring the FTSE 250 lower, with Heritage Oil among the worst performers. As of 16:30, Brent crude futures were trading $1.07 lower (-0.95%) at $112.14, while West Texas crude future were $0.32 under (-0.34%) at $92.69.Oil firm Salamander Energy fell after it started drilling its South Sebuku-2 (SS2) appraisal well in the Bengara-1 project in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan. Sector peer Premier Oil was also under the weather after acquiring a 17.71% interest in the Wytch Farm assets for an initial cash payment of $96m, increasing its stake to 30.1%. Metals prices were on the decline, also, with copper and gold futures trading 0.86% and 0.01% lower. Silver futures were edging up 0.15%.---BC
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5 Aug 2010 15:40

FTSE 100 movers: Insurers please market

Strong results from insurers are offsetting disappointing figures from other Footsie companies. Aviva reported a better-than-expected 21% rise in its half-year profit, while RSA Insurance Group announced revenue growth in all geographic regions and a 'resilient underwriting result' in what was a t

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1 Jul 2010 13:57

FTSE 100 movers: Investment managers decline

Footsie remains lower with financials heading the losers. This is because of concerns of a slow-down at Barclays Capital (BarCap) investment management arm. Barclays said BarCap had seen weaker trading conditions in the past two months. Schroders and Investec are also well down on the back of this

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6 May 2010 15:33

FTSE 100 movers: Banks lead market down

Banks are leading Footsie downwards after ratings agency Moody's warned that the UK lenders are "at risk of Greek contagion". Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, HSBC and even Asia-focused Standard Chartered fell sharply after Moody's said banks in the UK, as well as in Ireland, Italy, Portu

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1 Apr 2010 11:20

Home Retail boss opens Hammerson account

Terry Duddy, chief executive of Argos and Homebase owner Home Retail Group, has opened his account at Hammerson having joined the board of the shopping centre operator in December. He took 20,000 shares at 394p a time in his first purchase of shares in the company, paying a total of £78,800. In a

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10 Mar 2010 16:19

FTSE 100 movers: Footsie ahead despite ex-dividends

Resources companies and banks are heading the risers on the Footsie, while the forward momentum has been held back by a raft of companies going ex-dividend. Rising copper prices have boosted the shares of Fresnillo, Eurasian Natural Resources and Xstrata. RBS upgraded oil services provider Petro

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4 Mar 2010 16:05

FTSE 100 movers: Results dominate index

A mixed bag of results dominate the main movers in the Footsie. The bright spot was fund manager Schroders. Net new business inflows jumped to £15bn in 2009 compared with net outflows of £9.6bn in 2008, while funds under management ended the year at £148.4bn versus £110.2bn a year earlier. Total p

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17 Nov 2009 15:51

Schroders executives pocket option gains

Two executive directors of asset manager Schroders have taken up options and sold most of them for large profits. Chief executive Michael Dobson took up options over 1,802,033 non-voting shares, of which 906,285 were at nil cost and the rest at prices of 705p, 483p and 398p a share. The total cost

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29 Jul 2009 11:32

FTSE 100 movers: Schroders leads the pack

Fund manager Schroders leads the FTSE 100 higher after saying it is seeing strong demand for its European corporate bond product, prompting Morgan Stanley to upgrade the stock. Rexam is the heaviest faller. The packaging giant's well -flagged right issue has been launched with the firm looking to r

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24 Jul 2009 17:13

London close: Ten out of ten for Footsie

The FTSE 100 index made it ten days of rises in a row, despite tailing off towards the close as investors looked to bank profits ahead of the week-end. It capped the best rally by the blue-chip index in five years. The rise was achieved despite dismal gross domestic product data. UK output contract

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24 Jul 2009 14:11

London afternoon: Financials find favour

Footsie eased back a little over the lunchtime session but thanks to firm financials the blue-chip index continues to shrug off this morning's gloomy data on gross domestic product (GDP). UK output contracted 0.8% between April and June after a 2.4% decline in the first quarter, according to the Of

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