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Cyclicals were at the fore on Wednesday, with Forestry and Paper stocks topping the leaderboard on the back of upbeat medium-term projections from two trade groups.
Cyclicals were all lower at the end of the week as investors recoiled at the prospect that Covid-19 lockdown measures across the Continent might be tightened amid the renewed increases in the number of novel coronavirus infections.
A sharp rebound in shares of non-life insurer Hiscox pushed its sector to the top of the leaderboard after the High Court's ruling on so-called Business Interruption costs in the wake of the pandemic.
Cyclicals paced gains in the market at the end of the week with miners pacing the advance on hopes for a continued economic recovery, especially in Asia.
Oil related stocks were the main drag on London listed stocks on Tuesday, as the sell-off in technology shares Stateside fed into other risk assets, including commodities.
Big Pharma paced gains in London at the start of the week, led by shares in Dechra Pharmaceuticals after the veterinary drugs maker hiked its dividend payout following what it described as an "encouraging" start to its new financial year.
Technology issues paced losses in London trading at the end of the week as investors were caught in the downdraft from sharp selling in the space across the Pond.
Miners and Homebuilders paced fallers in the stockmarket on Thursday with a slightly worse-than-expected reading on initial weekly jobless claims acting as the apparent trigger for the selling.
Aerospace and defence names were at the bottom of the pile as Sterling continued its push higher, oblivious to what some observers had billed as a key week for Brexit talks between Brussels and London.
Cyclical stocks were broadly lower on Wednesday following the release of a weaker than expected reading on US consumer confidence for the month of August that served to knock shares lower across the globe.
Miners' shares paced losses on the stock market at the end of the week, with Anglo American, Antofagasta, BHP, Glencore, and Rio Tinto all ending sharply lower.
Drug and biotechnology shares were in demand on Wednesday, with investor sentiment towards the sector boosted by continued mergers and acquisitions activity in the sector.
