(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers within the main London indices on Friday.----------FTSE 100 - LOSERS----------Anglo American, down 2.6%, Rio Tinto, down 2.3%, BHP Group, down 2.1%, Antofagasta, down 1.7%. The miners were in the red amid lower iron ore prices. "Mining stocks have slipped back a little on the back of reports that one of China's biggest producers called for an inquiry into the recent rally in iron ore prices. This call also prompted prices to slide over 6% from a 5-year high and has seen Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Antofagasta amongst others slip back," said CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson. ----------Berkeley Group, down 1.6%, Barratt Developments, down 0.8%, Taylor Wimpey, down 1.7%, Persimmon, down 2.4%. The housebuilders were lower following mixed UK house price data in June from mortgage lender Halifax. On a monthly basis, house prices fell by 0.3%, while year-on-year, house prices were up 5.7%. Halifax noted that the annual figures come against a "particularly low growth rate" in June 2018. In May, house prices had risen 0.4% on a monthly basis and 5.2% annually. ----------FTSE 250 - WINNERS----------John Wood Group, up 3.8%. The oilfield services company was raised to Buy from Hold by Berenberg. The German bank believes John Wood Group's cash generation worries will be short-lived and backed the firm to return to normal in the not-too-distant future.----------Tullow Oil, up 2.2%. Jefferies raised the oil and gas company to Buy from Hold. ----------Acacia Mining, up 1.1%. The gold miner said successful drilling at the North Mara mine in Tanzania has allowed it to upgrade reserves. As of the end of May, North Mara's Gokona mine had 1.3 million ounces of gold reserves at a grade of 5.5 grams of gold per tonne of ore, 13% higher than before, though at a marginally lower grade. This, Acacia said, is due to drilling on the east and west extensions of Gokona in late 2018 and early 2019. Overall, the measured and indicated resources at Gokona have risen 63% to 122,000 ounces of gold, and the grade has also improved. Acacia's inferred resource has climbed 65% to 849,000 ounces of gold, at a lower grade.----------FTSE 250 - LOSERS----------SIG, down 6.6%. The building materials firm said it is set to meet annual profit expectations, despite continued difficult conditions. SIG said trading remains "challenging" in many end-markets, with UK construction activity in particular showing weakness. SIG said its own business transformation plans as well as normal seasonality "should enable a stronger second half". For the first half of 2019, total sales on a like-for-like basis fell 3.8% on a year prior, with the second half of 2018 having fallen by 4.3%. In the UK & Ireland, first half sales declined 13%, accelerating from an 8.0% decline in the last half of 2018, while in Mainland Europe SIG returned to sales growth, at 3.3%, after a 1.4% decline in the last half of 2018. "SIG has no choice in such market conditions but to seek to renovate its business model. This includes taking costs out of the business. While cutting your cloth accordingly in lean times is a prudent approach, it has to be balanced against taking out too much capacity. Many potential customers are in 'wait and see' mode as they await any kind of clarity on Brexit," said AJ Bell's Russ Mould. ----------Spectris, down 4.8%. Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded the speciality chemicals firm to Underperform from Buy. ----------Victrex, down 3.0%. Peel Hunt cut the polymer supplier to Hold from Add. ----------OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - WINNERS----------Churchill China, up 9.9%. The ceramics producer said it has continued to perform well in the first half of its financial year, expecting its performance for 2019 to be ahead of expectations. This is mainly due to revenue growth in its Hospitality division for the six months to the end of June being ahead of management's initial expectations, driven by further progress made in Europe.----------OTHER MAIN MARKET AND AIM - LOSERS----------John Menzies, down 14%. The aviation services group said it performed worse than expected in the first half of 2019 because of challenges in the aviation market. Menzies said fewer flights and weak cargo volumes have led to poor trading so far and earnings for 2019 will now not exceed last year's. In 2018, the aviation services provider earned GBP21.6 million in pretax profit and GBP1.29 billion in revenue. Chief Executive Giles Wilson said: "The overall aviation market is having a difficult year. This inevitably is having an impact on our full year outturn. However, I firmly believe in the structural growth dynamics within our industry and all historical data points to recovery."----------
UK dividends calendar - next 7 days
Monday 6 May | |
no events scheduled | |
Tuesday 7 May | |
Begbies Traynor Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Ferguson PLC | dividend payment date |
Manchester & London Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Mobius Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Nexus Infrastructure PLC | dividend payment date |
Pebble Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Pinewood Technologies Group PLC | special dividend payment date |
Thungela Resources Ltd | dividend payment date |
Volution Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Wednesday 8 May | |
Melrose Industries PLC | dividend payment date |
Personal Group Holdings PLC | dividend payment date |
Thursday 9 May | |
Admiral Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
AG Barr PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Aurora Investment Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Balanced Commercial Property Trust Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Bank of Ireland Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Bellevue Healthcare Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Braime Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Centaur Media PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Chenavari Toro Income Fund Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Clarkson PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Custodian Property Income REIT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
CVC Income & Growth Ltd EURO | ex-dividend payment date |
CVC Income & Growth Ltd GBP | ex-dividend payment date |
Domino's Pizza Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Epwin Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
F&C Investment Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Fidelity Special Values PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Focusrite PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Grafton Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Gresham Technologies PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Headlam Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Henderson International Income Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
HSBC Holdings PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Ibstock PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Invesco Perpetual UK Smaller Cos Investment Trust PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
JPMorgan Global Core Real Assets Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Lancashire Holdings Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
LSL Property Services PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
M&C Saatchi PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
M&G PLC | dividend payment date |
Macfarlane Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Marwyn Value Investors Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Midwich Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Montanaro UK Smaller Cos Investments Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Octopus Titan VCT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
One Media iP Group PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Petershill Partners PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Picton Property Income Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
PRS REIT PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Reach PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Sherborne Investors Guernsey C Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Sthree PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Sylvania Platinum Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Taylor Maritime Investments Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Tracsis PLC | ex-dividend payment date |
Travis Perkins PLC | dividend payment date |
UIL Ltd | ex-dividend payment date |
Friday 10 May | |
AIB Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Alpha Group International PLC | dividend payment date |
Antofagasta PLC | dividend payment date |
Hammerson PLC | dividend payment date |
Hunting PLC | dividend payment date |
International Personal Finance PLC | dividend payment date |
Invesco Select Trust Global Equity Income PLC | dividend payment date |
Invesco Select Trust UK Equity PLC | dividend payment date |
Johnson Service Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Kerry Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Asian Total Return Inv Co PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder European Real Estate Investments Trust PLC | dividend payment date |
Schroder Oriental Income Fund Ltd | dividend payment date |
Serco Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | dividend payment date |
Somero Enterprises Inc | special dividend payment date |
Taylor Wimpey PLC | dividend payment date |
Tufton Oceanic Assets Ltd | dividend payment date |
VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC | dividend payment date |
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