Sector movers: Miners tail off
By Oliver Haill
Date: Monday 15 Apr 2019
(Sharecast News) - Markets were mixed on Monday with miners in the mire but mobile telecoms marching higher.
Miners were in the red as copper retreated after its strong session on Friday.
Profit taking was cited by CMC Markets analyst David Madden, though data out of China should have boosted support for miners, suggested analysts at Liberum, with further credit growth again in March adding to evidence that China is aggressively stimulating its economy via the banking sector.
"We expect increased corporate borrowing is likely to disproportionately impact manufacturing and consumption over housing construction, which should be incrementally more positive for copper and aluminium demand, as opposed to steel," Liberum said.
Mobile was boosted as Vodafone continued to climb from last week's one-month low, perhaps boosted by a note from Numis that suggested biding in Germany's spectrum auction was "far less" than Italy's auction last year and pointing out that on its forecasts, the FTSE 100 telecoms giant's shares currently trade noticeably cheaper than the sector and with a 9.4% dividend yield.
Telecoms were also higher along with other defensive stocks such as tobacco and life insurers.
Top performing sectors so far today
Mobile Telecommunications 3,223.49 +1.22%
Tobacco 35,904.84 +1.02%
Fixed Line Telecommunications 2,657.91 +0.93%
Life Insurance 8,034.74 +0.84%
General Retailers 2,286.18 +0.82%
Bottom performing sectors so far today
Mining 20,811.54 -1.33%
Oil Equipment, Services & Distribution 11,268.01 -0.99%
Health Care Equipment & Services 6,908.58 -0.68%
Oil & Gas Producers 9,243.45 -0.56%
Industrial Metals & Mining 6,173.41 -0.55%
Market Movers
FTSE 100 (UKX) 7,431.11 -0.08%
FTSE 250 (MCX) 19,816.99 0.53%
techMARK (TASX) 3,558.80 0.20%
FTSE 100 - Risers
easyJet (EZJ) 1,178.00p 2.35%
Paddy Power Betfair (PPB) 6,268.00p 1.75%
Prudential (PRU) 1,699.00p 1.61%
Next (NXT) 5,700.00p 1.50%
WPP (WPP) 884.80p 1.47%
Vodafone Group (VOD) 142.60p 1.47%
Ferguson (FERG) 5,398.00p 1.28%
Spirax-Sarco Engineering (SPX) 7,980.00p 1.27%
British American Tobacco (BATS) 3,127.00p 1.23%
Hiscox Limited (DI) (HSX) 1,627.00p 1.18%
FTSE 100 - Fallers
Compass Group (CPG) 1,753.50p -2.20%
BHP Group (BHP) 1,899.80p -1.82%
Anglo American (AAL) 2,175.50p -1.54%
Experian (EXPN) 2,160.00p -1.46%
Fresnillo (FRES) 784.00p -1.46%
Antofagasta (ANTO) 1,008.00p -1.42%
Rio Tinto (RIO) 4,707.00p -1.35%
Reckitt Benckiser Group (RB.) 5,829.00p -1.29%
Marks & Spencer Group (MKS) 275.60p -0.97%
Hikma Pharmaceuticals (HIK) 1,743.00p -0.97%
FTSE 250 - Risers
IWG (IWG) 345.35p 25.26%
Indivior (INDV) 42.25p 19.93%
Energean Oil & Gas (ENOG) 848.00p 8.72%
Kier Group (KIE) 378.00p 8.62%
Metro Bank (MTRO) 842.01p 7.13%
Charter Court Financial Services Group (CCFS) 368.50p 3.80%
Entertainment One Limited (ETO) 467.20p 3.13%
IP Group (IPO) 102.60p 3.01%
Restaurant Group (RTN) 125.50p 2.87%
IG Group Holdings (IGG) 529.60p 2.80%
FTSE 250 - Fallers
Acacia Mining (ACA) 172.90p -9.95%
Kaz Minerals (KAZ) 712.40p -3.52%
Funding Circle Holdings (FCH) 319.50p -3.18%
Hochschild Mining (HOC) 191.70p -2.19%
Ultra Electronics Holdings (ULE) 1,523.00p -2.06%
Saga (SAGA) 56.15p -2.01%
William Hill (WMH) 164.95p -1.90%
Safestore Holdings (SAFE) 644.50p -1.90%
TalkTalk Telecom Group (TALK) 120.40p -1.87%
888 Holdings (888) 152.50p -1.80%
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