RE: Nice write up in the Times18 Feb 2023 11:05
The shares dropped 21p, or 6.9 per cent, to 284½p. Lloyds, which is due to update the market next week, was heavily punished by the market too, tumbling 2p, or 3.8 per cent, to 51p.
The negative session on Wall Street hit Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, which has shares in most big American technology stocks. The shares slid 23½p, or 3.2 per cent, to 737½p. Allianz Technology Trust, another vehicle through which UK investors can invest in Big Tech, retreated 9p, or 3.8 per cent, to 229p.
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Weaker oil prices, fuelled by concerns that higher interest rates could weigh on demand and also by signs of ample supply, led Shell to drop 46½p, or 1.8 per cent, to £25.41, and its great rival BP to give up 7¾p, or 1.4 per cent, to 560p.
Against a downbeat session for stock markets, Segro won over investors as the warehouse landlord raised its full-year dividend, pushing the shares up 30p, or 3.6 per cent, to 866¼p.
Off the main market, shares in Creo Medical popped up 9½p, or 38.8 per cent, to 34p after saying, because of “strong investor demand”, it had raised £28.5 million in its first round of fundraising.
EnSilica, the chip maker, jumped 9p, or 9.6 per cent, to 102½p as higher revenues helped to narrow its adjusted pre-tax losses in the six months to the end of November.
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After a negative start driven by hawkish remarks from the US Federal Reserve, indices pared early losses with the Dow Jones industrial average actually closing up 129.84 points, or 0.4 per cent, at 33,826.69, still down 0.1 per cent on the week.