Sector Review
Sector movers: Financials pace gains, defensives hammered
Cyclicals did best on Wednesday following the release of US fourth quarter gross domestic product data that many economists said kept hopes for a 'soft landing' in the US alive.
Sector movers: Airlines pace gainers, oil and gas drag
Airline stocks paced gains among cyclicals in a mixed day for the stock market on the back of ongoing optimism around the continuing recovery in demand after the pandemic.
Sector movers: Automobiles drag on stocks, miners track copper higher
Automobiles paced losses on the stock market in the middle of the week after TI Fluid Systems warned that its fourth quarter revenues took a hit from Covid restrictions and a switch to electric vehicles in China.
Sector movers: Electricity and Utilities pace gains on down day
Defensives figured prominently on the leaderboard on a down day for the stock market as Sterling continued to show staying power.
Sector movers: Stocks grind higher as investors 'buy the world'
Big Pharma and Banks paced gains in the stock market at the end of the week with investors apparently opting to go global, pushing the FTSE 100 nearer to its record highs in the process.
Sector movers: Construction and Retail lead as FTSE 100 pushes towards five-year highs
Cyclicals paced gains in the stock market as UK stocks outperformed again and the top-flight index pushed nearer its five-year highs around 7,900 points.
Sector movers: Miners pace gains as China reopens borders
Industrial metals miners' shares lent their heft to the upside move in the stock market at the start of the week, amid ongoing optimism around China's push to reopen its economy and against the backdrop of further slippage in the Greenback.
Sector movers: UK stocks outperform led by HSBC and StanChart
Lenders drove gains again with Asia-focused StanChart and HSBC spearheading an advance that saw UK stocks extend their outperformance versus their European and US peers.
Sector movers: Banks lead as investors take stock of risks to 2023 outlook
Banks and Life Insurance shares lent their heft to Tuesday's somewhat atypical advance in the stock market, in so far as UK and European indices outperformed their peers on Wall Street by a wide margin.