Sector movers: Autos&Parts and Travel names pace gains

Autos&Parts and Travel names were boosted on Tuesday by ongoing hopes that economies would be able to reopen in a few months' time.

Driving gains in the former, Aston Martin Lagonda continued to track the recent recovery in the wider sector across Europe on hopes.

Underscoring that optimism, after the close of markets, AstraZeneca would announce solid results for its vaccine against the novel coronavirus from a larger data set of volunteers participating in its clinical trials.

To take note of, data regarding the vaccine's efficacy against the new virus strains was set to published over the next few days.

Hopes that governments around the world would be able to stem the pandemic and remain ahead of the virus also fed gains in the Travel sector.

Top performing sectors so far today

Automobiles & Parts 5,115.28 +6.46%

Beverages 23,765.07 +3.30%

Travel & Leisure 8,120.09 +2.53%

General Industrials 6,750.88 +2.45%

Oil Equipment, Services & Distribution 5,308.14 +2.38%

Bottom performing sectors so far today

Oil & Gas Producers 4,537.46 -1.61%

Mining 22,338.95 -1.21%

Leisure Goods 25,390.69 -0.97%

Fixed Line Telecommunications 1,536.50 -0.72%

General Retailers 2,602.01 -0.44%