Simple Spread Trading | Services | Weekly Markets Round-up & Tips Digest

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Markets round-up

You can trade these markets using our 'Golden/Dead Cross' (intra-day) and 'Trend Trading' (medium-term) Simple Strategies.

Market

Week change

Market

Week change

FTSE 100 (UK)

Dow Jones Industrial Average (US)

US Light Sweet Crude (Oil)

Gold (LBM) $

Silver (LBM) $

+ 0.50%

- 0.98%

- 0.37%

- 1.72%

- 1.82%

GBP/USD (Pound / US Dollar)

EUR/GBP (Euro / Pound)

EUR/USD (Euro / US Dollar)

USD/CAD (US / Canadian Dollar)

USD/JPY (US Dollar / Japanese Yen)

+ 1.57%

+ 0.69%

+ 2.29%

+ 2.37%

- 2.30%

Source: ShareScope

Sectors round-up

You can trade these sectors using our 'Golden/Dead Cross' (intra-day) and 'Trend Trading' (medium-term) Simple Strategies.

Best performing sectors é

Worst performing sectors ê

Sector

Week change

Sector

Week change

Technology Hardware & Equipment

Software & Computer Services

Oil & Gas Producers

Electronic & Electrical Equipment

Tobacco

+ 4.31%

+ 4.20%

+ 4.16%

+ 3.41%

+ 3.32%

Mining

Industrial Metals & Mining

Aerospace & Defence

Fixed Line Telecommunications

Financial Services

- 2.57%

- 1.06%

- 1.05%

- 0.45%

- 0.08%

Source: ShareScope

Broker recommendations

These are stocks with a market capitalisation over £500m that received a 'Buy' or 'Sell' broker rating in the last week. You can trade these shares using our 'Trend Trading' (medium-term) and 'New Highs & Lows' (longer-term) Simple Strategies.

Buy recommendations é

Sell recommendations ê

Stock

Broker

Stock

Broker

Punch Taverns

Thomas Cook Group

Experian Group

Rio Tinto

GlaxoSmithKline

Panmure Gordon

Liberum Capital

C. Stanley, Evolution

Ambrian

Ambrian, C. Stewart

Lloyds Banking Group

InterContinental Hotels

Mitchells & Butlers

Northern Foods

Seymour Pierce

Shore Capital

Arbuthnot

Seymour Pierce

Panmure Gordon

Source: Digital Look

Director own company dealings

These are stocks with a market capitalisation over £500m that have been subject to director dealings in the last week. You can trade these shares using our 'Trend Trading' (medium-term) and 'New Highs & Lows' (longer-term) Simple Strategies.

Directors buying é		Directors selling ê
Stock	Biggest trade	Stock	Biggest trade
United Utilities	£37,883.44	Electrocomponents ASOS Robert Wiseman Investec	£55,179.84 £14,982,472.96 £12,875.00 £868,125.02

Source: Digital Look

New 52-week highs & lows

These are stocks with a market capitalisation over £500m that hit a new 52-week high or low in the last trading week. You can trade these shares specifically using our 'New Highs & Lows' Simple Strategy.

Stocks hitting new highs é		Stocks hitting new lows ê
Stock	Week change	Stock	Week change
Associated British Foods Dimension Data Holdings Croda International Arriva Hikma Pharmaceuticals	+ 4.87% + 29.15% + 3.85% + 0.20% + 0.14%	None this week.	- 0.00%

Source: ShareScope

FTSE-100 biggest gainers & fallers

You can trade these shares using our 'Trend Trading' (medium-term) and 'New Highs & Lows' (longer-term) Simple Strategies.

Biggest gainers é		Biggest fallers ê
Stock	Week change	Stock	Week change
BP Experian Group Associated British Foods Intertek Imperial Tobacco Group	+ 11.61% + 7.27% + 4.87% + 4.20% + 4.14%	Kazakhmys ICAP Rio Tinto Barclays Man Group	- 5.88% - 5.87% - 5.28% - 5.26% - 4.69%

Source: ShareScope

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