Sector Review
Sector movers: Financials and Oil pace gains, China and OPEC+ in the spotlight
Financials and Miners paced gains in the stock market on Tuesday following news that authorities in China wanted to strengthen vaccination rates among those over 80.
Sector movers: Defensives pace gains as China news rattle traders
The final week of November got off to a soft start with the FTSE 350 dragged lower by Autos&Parts and Homebuilders' shares.
Sector movers: Oil and Gas, Big Tobacco keep stocks afloat
Oil&Gas paced gains on the FTSE 350 at the end of the week, alongside Big Tobacco, amid subdued trading across Europe as well as on the other side of the Pond.
Sector movers: Travel, Retail and Mining pace gains
Cyclicals including Travel and Leisure, as well as consumer staples, paced gains on the FTSE 350 in relatively flattish to mixed trading given the absence of many traders from their desks due to the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the US.
Sector movers: UK equities outperform led by commodity-related stocks
Oil and Gas shares paced gains on the FSTE 350 on Tuesday, helping the broader UK stock market to outperform its peers.
Sector movers: Oil stocks drag amid concerns around Chinese reopening
Big Pharma and Utilities paced gains at the start of the week, as investors shifted towards defensive issues following reports of the first Covid-19 deaths in China since the end of the second quarter, which stoked concerns that Beijing might slow the reopening of its economy.
Sector movers: Power generators boosted by Autumn Statement, Oil and Gas drag
Interest rate sensitive construction and utilities shares paced gains at the end of the week following the Chancellor's well-received Autumn Statement the day before.
Sector movers: Real estate, home construction pace losses
UK stocks eased back on Wednesday with real estate and home construction issues pacing losses in the wake of data showing a big slowdown in house price growth amid surging mortgage artes.
Sector movers: Defensives lead as stocks extend gains
Stocks continued to push higher at the start of the week but market leadership centred on defensive issues ahead of a week full of economic events.
Sector movers: Defensives drag with miners and insurers acting as an offset
Defensive issues dragged on the FTSE 350 following a lower-than-expected reading on US consumer prices the day before that led some investors to shift a tad towards cyclicals.
Sector movers: Risk assets rally hard after softer than expected US CPI print
Risk assets rallied hard on the back of a softer-than-expected reading for US consumer prices covering the month of October.
Sector movers: Precious metals miners, Autos pace gains
Precious metals miners' shares paced gains on the FTSE 350 as the US dollar index slipped.
Sector movers: Banks and Defensives drag
Banks were at the bottom of the pile at the start of the week as investors waited on the results of the US mid-term elections the next day.
Sector movers: Miners jump, copper futures rally on China news
Mining shares soared at the end of the week following news that Beijing would approve the use of BioNTech's mRNA Covid-19 vaccine for use among the expatriate population in the People's Republic of China - although some analysts in the City sounded a skeptical note.
Sector movers: Fed Powell's hawkish tilt hits precious metals miners' shares
Precious metals miners were hit by the fallout from the very hawkish press conference by Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell the night before.
Sector movers: Stocks slip with all eyes on the Federal Reserve
Automobiles and Tobacco were pacing losses on Wednesday amid a down market for the FTSE 350, even as many investors sat on their hands ahead of the US central bank's policy announcement.
Sector movers: Miners pace gains, Anglo American and Glencore lead
Miners paced gains on Tuesday following reports overnight citing posts on Chinese social media that Beijing had created a committee to make preparations for the easing of Covid-19 restrictions in the Asian giant.