Author: T&T Staff

Our FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) Trading around 9508 at time of writing.

When we’re getting cheesed off about how poorly many shares on the UK stock market are performing, habitually we add to our depression by running a comparison with what’s going on elsewhere, especially in countries where the government doesn’t regard arresting people for Twitter or Facebook comments as the most important facet of their job. A recent statistic revealed 30 folk are being arrested a day for what are essentially imaginary crimes,  a level of sustained crackdown which placed the campaign against democracy protestors in Hong Kong into the shade.

Successive governments in the UK continue to avoid doing anything useful, often more intent on feeding politicians ego rather than risk doing anything positive for the country and business. The recent ridiculous “photo op” investment for a maritime facility to import cheap Chinese electric vehicles in the north of England provides a perfect example of how hard UK politicians work to damage the country, an initiative which will harm the residual UK vehicle industry, along with reducing imports from Europe. After all, why buy VW or whatever, if there’s a Chinese alternative available at 1/2 the price.

 

The charts below tell a story suitable for Halloween. Since 2010, the value of the UK stock market has increased by almost double. The FTSE needs be just below 12000 points to make the rise a solid 2x fold gain.

However, the US S&P500 chart below is a bit more interesting, showing a 5x fold increase for exactly the same period. And our local neighbour, Germany, is also showing a near 5x fold increase…

These figures are nothing to do with Brexit, our frustration and irritation with the UK dating back to the market crash of 2009, along with the realisation UK politicians didn’t know what to do about the mess our country was in. While every other country worked hard to leave the financial crisis behind, British governments revelled in the fact they’d something else to blame, giving plenty of reasons for inactivity.  It’s still the case the financial crash of 2009 gets trotted out, when a politician is trying to assign blame for their incompetence and inaction. But they are proud 30 folk are being arrested daily for “wrong think” on social media, making the UK a world leader in the field..

 

As for our FTSE for FRIDAY, there are many suggestions the UK market should be heading upward. There has been a certain lethargy of movements this week, so hoping for a positive day on Friday may be an error but given recent world news of movement in the Middle East and the Nobel Committee due to announce who deserves this years Peace Price, perhaps things may get exciting for the market. We suspect Mr Trump shall not be lauded as his efforts have been too late for consideration this year.

If things intend go wrong for the FTSE, it’s now the case where weakness below 9501 points risks promoting reversals down to an initial 9471 points with our “longer term” secondary, if broken, at 9436 points and hopefully a bounce point, given the underlying pressure remains upward. If this scenario triggers, the tightest stop is at 9537 points.

Should things intend turn positive, the UK index needs wander above 9566 points to promote the idea of gains to an initial 9629 points with our secondary, if beaten, an unlikely (in the same day) 9650 points. Our expectation is for a day of mild reversals while the FTSE embraces a flat spell prior to the BoE announcing a surprise Interest Rate reduction on November 6th.

 

FUTURES

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
10:37:22PM	BRENT	6509	6486	6440		6531	6644	6678		6562	Success
10:40:10PM	GOLD	3976.61	3944	3920		3990	4030	4062		3999	Success
10:43:24PM	FTSE	9493.2	9483	9447		9512	9535	9546		9505
10:46:28PM	STOX50	5621.5	5613	5608		5638	5638	5646		5620	Shambles
10:52:49PM	GERMANY	24612	24570	24538		24630	24673	24733		24595	‘cess
11:11:12PM	US500	6734.7	6716	6705		6737	6762	6779		6744
11:14:40PM	DOW	46383.2	46264	46006		46478	46684	46805		46488	‘cess
11:18:00PM	NASDAQ	25105.8	25028	24974		25080	25140	25184		25026
11:21:20PM	JAPAN	48525	48420	48292		48632	48726	48840		48550	‘cess

 

9/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9509 points. Change of -0.41%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,502,012,274 a change of 0.62%

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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LSE:AAL Anglo American. Close Mid-Price: 2963 Percentage Change: + 2.17% Day High: 3008 Day Low: 2926

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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 58.55 Percentage Change: -12.61% Day High: 67.05 Day Low: 58.5

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 655 Percentage Change: + 0.08% Day High: 662 Day Low: 654

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LSE:CAR Carclo. Close Mid-Price: 69.8 Percentage Change: + 5.76% Day High: 69.2 Day Low: 66

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 2394 Percentage Change: + 1.10% Day High: 2438 Day Low: 2342

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 357.15 Percentage Change: + 0.39% Day High: 363 Day Low: 354.3

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 412.8 Percentage Change: + 3.20% Day High: 416 Day Low: 399.9

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LSE:IHG Intercontinental Hotels Group Close Mid-Price: 9174 Percentage Change: -0.28% Day High: 9292 Day Low: 9118

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 238 Percentage Change: -0.42% Day High: 241.6 Day Low: 236.8

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered Close Mid-Price: 1455 Percentage Change: -1.66% Day High: 1514.5 Day Low: 1459.5

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#Stoxx #Dax Airline pilots must be viewing their exit strategies quite closely, their jobs increasingly looking like they are going to be on the line sometime within living memory. The once prestigious position of “Pilot” should become a fairly early casualty of the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), once the penny drops with a company like Ryanair or Spirit when they appreciate they can plug in a computer in their head office. That computer could be running an AI and in contact with every single aircraft of the fleet, via the StarLink digital satellite hook-up. Due to a pilots job now being checklist based, along with a regime of “If X, then do Y” in the cockpit, an AI could manage an entire fleet quite easily, especially if it were proved an AI could outfly that famous bloke who landed a jet on the Hudson River in New York, due to both engines eating a flock of birds.

While this sounds like a whimsical joke, it can be utterly certain airline companies are actively exploring such a prospect, perhaps relegating any existing pilot to the job of serving coffee and snacks during prolonged periods when supervisory duties in the cockpit were not required. Surely in such a scenario, the pilots would not be on stewardesses wage levels but of course, Ryanair would ensure they only got a salary increase for the minutes and seconds while they attended a cockpit emergency. It would work wonders for profitability, removing the need for two pilots on long haul flights, and allowing cabin crew numbers to be reduced.

Though we’re traditionally anti-flying, the idea of an AI controlling an aircraft isn’t terrifying, due to the vast majority of (thankfully very few) incidents being listed as either Pilot Error or a Boeing 737Max… This sort of thought process also gives some sort of clue as to possible effects as AI creeps into society with a greater force than JCB diggers utterly changing the need for teams of men digging roads. Or cars displacing horses, the internet removing the need for newspapers or TV, or mobile phones making telephones utterly redundant! Despite being extremely cynical at what the media refer to as AI, we’d have to admit the concept is solidly in our department due to our failed attempts to map the entire world stock market back in 2009 and onward. Once we figured out why our model didn’t work, it became easy to decide not to pursue the notion further, not due to a fear of success but rather, a fear of the amount of work required. The easy part was mapping each and every share as a standalone entity to understand how the markets treated them. Things got a little harder with the next bit, integrating these forces into our complex sets of rules, finally being left with a single bit of software which nowadays would be called an AI, its entire job being to map and project a future for a single share. We created an outrageous situation, where we theoretically needed a “Desktop” which had individual icons for every single share trades, along with commodities, or index’. Rather than just a few of us, we’d be waist deep in grunt programmers to make sense of everything.

Instead, we adopted an easy route out, mapping a relatively small number of items, glancing at how prices behaved relative to a very basic trend line, and paying attention to ones which became interesting. It sounds boring but the reality proved quite exciting and fun, especially as few things are more fun than watching a series of targets being met exactly. This proves the eyeball has chosen the correct trend to tell our software what needs mapped against.

However…

With news the International Monetary Fund and the Bank of England are warning the markets risk “abrupt” Stock Market corrections due to the AI boom, we automatically softened our cynical thoughts against AI. This is due to neither the IMF nor the BoE NEVER managing to cover themselves in glory by being right. Instead, they’ve opted to grab headlines with often ridiculous clickbait announcements, seemingly designed to prove they still exist and are important. We suspect absolutely no-one at the BoE has considered the single example of Airline Pilots given above. The “victims” of AI are liable to come from fields few folk consider. But we’d suggest anyone who works in HR should urgently do something to improve their CV.

Our own thinking is AI will always be a little simplistic until such a time, when software driven “thinking” can do something scary and say, “But, what if?”.

 

Returning to airlines and British Airways (the Sunday name for LSE:IAG) are actually looking like they face some positive price movements, despite the company failing to announce a reduction in their stable of 4,000 pilots, each presumably paid up to 1/2 million dollars per annum. Not a single IAG pilot could disagree with such a statement!

 

Currently, by closing Wednesday at 400p, IAG achieved an official “higher high”, therefore allowing a positive viewpoint for the fairly near term future.

At present, above 405p should trigger movement to an initial 427p with our secondary, if bettered, calculating at an eventual 502p and some hesitation.

 

Should things intend go wrong for International Consolidated Airlines (please, change the name, doubt anyone likes writing it), below 385 risks triggering reversal down to an initial  330 and a very possible bounce. Our secondary, if broken, works out at an unlikely 284p.

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:24:26PM	BRENT	6596.9									‘cess
11:27:38PM	GOLD	4013.16									Success
11:42:35PM	FTSE	9556.3									Success
11:47:09PM	STOX50	5655.6	5624	5617	5604	5651	5657	5667	5690	5624	Shambles
11:27:00PM	GERMANY	24645.5	24310	24208	24060	24431	24649	24673	24810	24561	Success
11:33:53PM	US500	6761									‘cess
11:36:26PM	DOW	46643.2
11:40:40PM	NASDAQ	25169.1									‘cess
11:44:21PM	JAPAN	48123

 

8/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9548 points. Change of 0.69%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,461,813,888 a change of 28.82%

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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LSE:AML Aston Martin Close Mid-Price: 67 Percentage Change: -4.96% Day High: 72.15 Day Low: 67.2

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 12806 Percentage Change: + 0.20% Day High: 12972 Day Low: 12776

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 654.5 Percentage Change: + 0.93% Day High: 656.5 Day Low: 648

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LSE:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 432.25 Percentage Change: + 0.15% Day High: 436.25 Day Low: 430.3

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra Close Mid-Price: 355.75 Percentage Change: -0.24% Day High: 361.05 Day Low: 353.05

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 6.59 Percentage Change: -3.94% Day High: 6.86 Day Low: 6.6

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 86.38 Percentage Change: + 3.70% Day High: 86.62 Day Low: 84.26

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1479.5 Percentage Change: + 2.49% Day High: 1487.5 Day Low: 1449.5

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.25 Percentage Change: -2.17% Day High: 11.5 Day Low: 11.25

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#Gold #FTSE This is a vanilla article, given we’ve run out of printable BP anecdotes and need go straight to the numbers! As many folk will know, when you’ve worked with a major corporate, you eventually reach a point at which the penny drops, along with the realisation the organisation doesn’t give a sod about you. As a result, it’s easy to become spiteful until there is an enlightened moment, when the discovery you can use the monster to eat itself becomes the easiest way to survive and flourish. There’s a particular story we’d love to tell in detail, how we’d re-route some fuel deliveries once a week, the delivery folk not caring as the bill was paid by the time a tanker left the refinery. Paperwork issues were avoided by the simple expedient of having cheeseburgers & coffee ready for the drivers who loved delivering to the busy petrol station with a perfect drop-off point at 2am. The retail arm never asked how we’d managed to ensure two outlets enjoyed equal sales every month, never once considering their own policy of wanting to close down sites which dropped below a particular threshold. Burgers and bacon rolls easily defeated BP corporate.

Since the start of July, any assumption BP’s share price has been tracking the price of Crude Oil would be quite erroneous. Brent Crude has been dripping downhill, while BP Plc has been slogging uphill, a genuine break for BP share price norms, perhaps even a strong indicator for happier days ahead. From our perspective, things kicked off just before the end of June this year, when their share price managed to close slightly above the level of a previous major trend break circled on the chart below.

We always regard this sort of signal as a pretty big deal, the next major firework being fully ignited when a share price regains this previous trend. This happened at the start of July and now, we’re fairly interested in what’s coming next, especially as BP has also now broken through the immediate Blue downtrend since April of last year…

Currently, above just 437p risks becoming interesting, theoretically triggering gains to an initial 469p with our secondary target, if bettered, at a reasonable looking 541p and almost certain hesitation.

Should things decide to go BP shaped, the price needs dwindle below Blue, presently 419p, to risk triggering reversals down to an initial 365 with our secondary, if broken, at an eventual bottom of a frightening 279p.

 

For now, it appears BP Plc share price intends further gains.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:03:29PM	BRENT	6564.4
11:05:25PM	GOLD	3985.41	3940	3921	3898	3962	3988	3994	4012	3960
11:08:04PM	FTSE	9489.2	9459	9439	9416	9479	9507	9521	9556	9483
11:10:43PM	STOX50	5606.9
11:13:19PM	GERMANY	24382
11:16:56PM	US500	6720.7									Success
11:21:27PM	DOW	46626.6
11:36:09PM	NASDAQ	24865.6									Shambles
11:41:04PM	JAPAN	47911

 

7/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9483 points. Change of 10436.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,016,195,038 a change of -1.86%

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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LSE:AAL Anglo American Close Mid-Price: 2809 Percentage Change: -0.39% Day High: 2843 Day Low: 2791

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LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY. Close Mid-Price: 648.5 Percentage Change: + 0.23% Day High: 654.5 Day Low: 646.5

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LSE:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 236.2 Percentage Change: -7.81% Day High: 245.2 Day Low: 200.2

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LSE:CNA Centrica Close Mid-Price: 170.05 Percentage Change: -0.29% Day High: 173.3 Day Low: 170.3

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LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra. Close Mid-Price: 356.6 Percentage Change: + 0.82% Day High: 358.7 Day Low: 351.85

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 6.86 Percentage Change: -4.32% Day High: 7.17 Day Low: 6.8

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 280 Percentage Change: + 2.75% Day High: 284 Day Low: 268

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LSE:TRN The Trainline Close Mid-Price: 275.2 Percentage Change: -0.43% Day High: 279.8 Day Low: 275.6

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LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital Close Mid-Price: 11.5 Percentage Change: -6.12% Day High: 12.25 Day Low: 11.5

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#Gold #SP500 Unusually, todays snapshot has a direct relationship to the subject under discussion, Saga Plc. One day last year, opening the bedroom curtains revealed this cruise ship parked outside, it being pretty unusual for large ships to visit the Holy Loch here in Argyll. While the deepwater anchorage should be attractive, the local tourism folk do literally nothing to attract maritime traffic. This results in a situation where visitors disembark their launches at the local marina petrol station, picking their way through the usual detritus which clutters up a working marina, on their way toward a luxury coach waiting to take them somewhere else.

In the case of the boat below, this was a SAGA cruise and it disgorged a stream of “older people”, some heading to Benmore Botanic Gardens, others choosing Inverarey Castle. Hopefully none of them chose the local town, Dunoon, as it’s a perfect example of a seaside town being left to die, simply due to Scottish politicians who don’t find the small electorate useful. The area is actually NOT an island, vaguely served by a road which needs big LED signs scattered throughout the area, letting drivers know if the road is open or not, big landslides being a major problem. But the area is amazing, a massive coastline and pretty mountains, a potential tourism honeytrap proving difficult to reach and served by an obscenely expensive ferry service, owned by a Swedish company.

But the arrival of a SAGA ship managed to get the local council excited for a couple of days, encouraging stories placed with the local newspaper, and ultimately nothing changed. Once upon a time, the area was served quite differently, there being large piers capable of handling ships placed every two miles on the North side of the Holy Loch. From the 19th to the mid 20th Century, there was vibrant cruise tourism to the area, greatly diminished once air travel opened, allowing scruffy Scots to visit Spain, a country where the sun apparently shines…

 

As the chart shows, SAGA share price has been enjoying a prolonged afternoon nap since the Covid-19 fall of 2020 but it has recently been showing signs of waking up. We’re now looking for movement above 299p as this should trigger recovery to an initial 316p. If exceeded, our longer term secondary target works out at 384p. While the visuals indicate a strong potential for hesitation at 384p, achievement of such a target should prove useful from a Big Picture perspective as closure above such a level takes the value into a zone where a cycle to 560p should become valid.

 

If things intend go wrong for SAGA, the share price needs below 227p to foul things up totally but for now, we’re fairly impressed with its potentials and shall be keeping an eye on them.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:30:10PM	BRENT	6544.3									Success
11:40:48PM	GOLD	3970.63	3926	3910	3888	3950	3978	3983	3996	3945	Success
11:43:03PM	FTSE	9467.7									‘cess
11:45:32PM	STOX50	5632.2
11:48:27PM	GERMANY	24427.7
11:33:25PM	US500	6729.3	6718	6711	6699	6738	6745	6752	6763	6725
11:35:49PM	DOW	46628.1
11:40:11PM	NASDAQ	24927.7									‘cess
11:45:09PM	JAPAN	48278

 

6/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 90 points. Change of -99.05%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,111,279,215 a change of -21.54%

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

26/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9284 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,703,129,904 a change of 4.79%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

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LSE:IQE IQE Close Mid-Price: 7.17 Percentage Change: -1.78% Day High: 7.49 Day Low: 7.13

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4984 Percentage Change: + 0.73% Day High: 5010 Day Low: 4926

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury Close Mid-Price: 334.6 Percentage Change: -0.12% Day High: 337.2 Day Low: 333.6

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#Brent #SP500 Fans of James Bond nonsense will doubtless howl with impotence at the photograph below. This scruffy tractor, owned by a local sheep farmer here in our bit of Argyll, was used to haul a grass cutting deck, prepping the field for his very spoiled rare breed flock of fluffy sheep shaped clouds with horns. When he finished cutting the grass at the end of July, the main steering arm fell off and it has been sitting, quietly rusting, in the months since. For a few folk, the reason for the James Bond link is in big capital letters on the side of the engine covers. It is a David Brown tractor, this being the name of the heavy engineering company famed for taking over Aston Martin in 1947 and the reason the DB moniker still prefaces every single Aston Martin model code until this day, despite David Brown Engineering no longer being involved.

Amusingly, while our own little red tractor has a different lineage, our steering is also a pure sod, due to running into a tree stump, bending the same steering arm which is hanging down on this David Brown one. The sight of this rusting machine provides a daily reminder on my dog walks, that I really should do something about my own bent steering arm before it disconnects. At the bottom of our sloped grass, there’s a dramatic 3 foot drop onto concrete which requires an extremely sharp turn of the steering wheel to avoid. As my brakes are (once again) not working, losing steering at the bottom of a cut could become quite messy as old tractors also lack roll cages or seat belts. Of course, if I crashed the tractor, I’d immediately be under suspicion, due to really wanting to buy one of these remote controlled tank-tracked petrol powered lawnmowers from China. Maybe my wife is planning a cunning Xmas (just 80 days!) present.

This, obviously, brings us to Barclays as their share price fast approaching a point where it risks falling steeply onto the concrete… Except it probably isn’t.

To be fair, Barclays share price needs close a session below 305p before we’d dare feel it had fallen off a cliff. Instead, price movements are proving “fairly” positive, though more tentative than a Golden Retriever stalking a bit of cheese on the carpet!

Barclays share price, from our perspective, needed to close above 385p to justify setting off a party popper and raising an eyebrow. During September, it closed above this trigger level just once and now, the share has celebrated October by slithering above 385p to again move into the “triggered” area. If our suspicion proves correct – which visually it shall be – the next time Barclays closes solidly above 385p we should anticipate share price movement to an initial 401p and some very possible hesitation. It appears closure above 401p shall once again give a significant trigger level, allowing theoretical movement to an initial third level of 442p.

However, from a Big Picture perspective, there is a bigger deal rolling around in the mud as there’s a seriously strong chance where closure again above 385p (or 389p, the high closing price in September) should enter an amazing long term cycle to a future 540p with our Big Picture secondary, if bettered, an astounding 700p. To be blunt, we’d though folk trapped since 2007 existed in an zone, where they were doing the equivalent of waiting until a Government promise came true. For Barclays, the share price is right on the edge of allowing proper optimism, a truly strange opinion for the retail banking sector. Hopefully Barclays don’t find themselves in a scandal for supporting Palestine, Israel, BBC Children in Need, or the apparently abhorrent RNLI migrant taxi service. (Due to Maritime Agreements, once the rubber boats are in deeper than 1 metre of water in France, they are deemed as being as “at sea” and the RNLI feel justified in “saving” them, ferrying or towing the occupants to the UK. Perhaps not the best use of a funded charity service, due to creating the risk of real emergencies in UK waters without Lifeboat coverage as the crews are in France. Quite what the French rescue services are doing is questionable, as all they need is a knitting needle to stop the rubber boats placing themselves in danger.)

 

Obviously, things could go “a little bit bad” as the share price is certainly flirting with the concept of recovery. Currently, it needs wither below 373p to risk triggering reversals to an initial 359 with our secondary, if broken, at a bottom of 331p and a probable point of bounce by 331p.

This, safely above our danger level of 305p, essentially confirms our suspicion of a period of messing around until such time market confidence allows the retail banks to be fired from a clown canon.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
1:50:01AM	BRENT	6431.9	6403	6309	6084	6670	6481	6504	6530	6457
1:54:47AM	GOLD	3886.71
3:46:53AM	FTSE	9483.2
10:51:09PM	DOW	46833.1
11:22:53PM	GERMANY	24403
11:12:56PM	STOX50	5652.7
10:48:41PM	US500	6725.2	6705	6696	6677	6732	6728	6758	6821	6705
10:53:38PM	NASDAQ	24842.1
10:55:49PM	JAPAN	48041

 

3/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9491 points. Change of 0.68%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,514,116,921 a change of 8.6%

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

26/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9284 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,703,129,904 a change of 4.79%

25/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9213 points. Change of -0.4%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,442,375,561 a change of -9.6%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 448.7 Percentage Change: -0.82% Day High: 455.6 Day Low: 443.5

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#FTSE #GOLD We were quite chuffed with our FTSE prediction last Friday, the index achieving our 9351 points in the opening seconds of Monday. This solid 84 point gain was quite impressive, only overshadowed by a reason for dread, thanks to our grand-daughters visiting with friends. Habitually, I keep out of the way aside if they want to spend time on the shooting range. Sunday afternoon found me supervising the girls enjoying a competition with our 25 point targets placed at 50 yards. These targets were empty 2 litre cola bottles, giving a satisfying “thunk” when hit but challenging, due to them moving in the breeze while they rotated at the end of string.

Needless to say, conventional targets were ignored as the bottles were shot to bits, one of the visiting girls taking top honours with 525 points, missing a perfect score by only three shots. Her previous experience was just from using her Dads Ball Bearing (BB) gun in their garage at home.  It appears my efforts as a host failed as while the girls were travelling back to Edinburgh, a text arrived asking if they could bring guitars next time, so I can teach them some proper music. It seems the grumpy grandfather act has failed completely, especially as the girls know my weak spot is music. Inevitably, they are going to learn “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes, one of their Mums favourite tunes when she was growing up. [Clue: it only needs three chords!]

 

As for the markets for Friday, things could get pretty messy. The US Government is currently shut down with only a few folk working in their statistics department. The “First Friday of the Month” payroll figures hopefully will not be announced as the alternative is someone’s best guess which will be wrong, causing mayhem in the weeks ahead when the correct figures come out. As American job statistic invariably effect other markets, things risk being messy. Hopefully, the unexpected holiday shall gag any announcement, thanks to historical instances when estimates are used causing chaos. Then again, it’d be funny if the Mr Trump administration announced Full Employment, just to see what happens?

 

Near term for the FTSE, above 9476 points has the potential for a lift to an initial 9504 points, a number which appears graven in stone due to three quite different formula pointing at such an ambition. Our secondary, if bettered, is a bit more vague at 9560 points. If triggered, the tightest stop looks like 9435 points but overall, such a cycle risks finding itself attracted to 9608 points and an almost certain ceiling.

Our converse scenario is a worry, due to it being a little obvious visually. Apparently below 9400 points should promote reversals to an initial 9329 points. Our secondary, with closure below such a point, works out at a profitable 9171 points and a visually perfect level for a bounce.

 

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:32:48PM	BRENT	6426.9	6395	6342		6503	6533	6556		6458
11:35:25PM	GOLD	3855.22	3819	3809		3850	3860	3876		3840	Success
11:41:49PM	FTSE	9422.9	9416	9405		9436	9462	9473		9430
11:45:39PM	STOX50	5654.7	5613	5589		5641	5673	5680		5639
11:48:51PM	GERMANY	24468	24385	24335		24477	24502	24530		24446	‘cess
11:51:10PM	US500	6719.6	6692	6673		6716	6732	6755		6692	‘cess
11:53:14PM	DOW	46539.4	46270	46235		46455	46592	46670		46496
11:55:25PM	NASDAQ	24909.1	24778	24699		24880	24964	25053		24868	‘cess
11:57:22PM	JAPAN	45033	44864	44754		45042	45162	45295		44868	Success

 

2/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9427 points. Change of -0.2%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,998,175,981 a change of -12.05%

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

26/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9284 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,703,129,904 a change of 4.79%

25/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9213 points. Change of -0.4%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,442,375,561 a change of -9.6%

24/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9250 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,020,048,725 a change of -2.61%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 83.76 Percentage Change: + 0.41% Day High: 84.92 Day Low: 83.6

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#Brent #Stoxx We know very little about trading bonds, other than understanding the conventional wisdom is of Government Bonds being regarded as very low risk, generally safer than Corporate Bonds. As a result, the interest rate paid will be lower in comparison but now we’ve looked hard at the T68 UK Treasury Bond, data since 2020 looks very like a vote on the integrity of successive UK Governments, the value dropping from around 340 quid down to a low of just 40 pounds. Visually, it’s like the hysteria of Liz Truss never actually went away and with government competence looking rather questionable, we suspect if Truss returned, the markets would flourish strongly!

We had to grin, the start of October proving quite a strong day for the FTSE, the reason given being Astrazeneca Plc had decided (for now) to remain with their main listing on the FTSE and headquarters in London, rather than escape the country and head for the financially healthier climate of New York and Wall Street. Their share price being up 11.2% was reminiscent of the Scottish Football Team declaring any game a resounding success, if they failed to concede (too many) goals. Astrazeneca’s day was emphatically not a win for the FTSE, just not another loss. We can admit LSE:AZN now look like £13,181 is possible on the current price cycle.

 

While we’re far from comfortable we understand Treasury Bonds, the idea of spending money to back the UK Government being an anathema, we do understand the data behind what’s being happening since the Gilt (to use the hip term) surged upward to the 340 level before following the path of the Lemming, behaving in a fashion visually reminiscent of a dodgy AIM penny share.

At least Gilts are free from Capital Gains tax, though the profitability of the T68 Bond seems to be questionable. The rate of 1/8th% works out at a payment of around £1.25 every six months for each bond owned, suggesting opening the letter which announces a payment would be about as exciting as reviewing a share dividend from Costain! However, it is perhaps possible bonds with the UK treasury would be safer than a commitment to our least exciting shareholding, bought as an unusual birthday present for my wife many, many, years ago. That particular initiative actually was a resounding success, her holding in Edinburgh Oil & Gas experiencing a crazy rise with a corporate takeover, one which she quickly translated into a Mazda MX5 sportscar with all the trimmings. But I think if I now opted to gift her some Treasury Bonds, she’d probably get creative with a pillow over my face one night while I sleep…

There are signs T68 is shuffling its feet, perhaps readying itself to change direction.

Above 45 pounds should now prove interesting, hopefully triggering movement to an initial 53 quid with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at a more useful 63 pounds and a desperate need for us to revisit the tea leaves and attempt to divine the future. As this particular bond expires in 2068, we guess positive movements shall not prove the most vivid, once it starts to move properly.

Should things intend go pear shaped, below £43 risks promoting reversal to an initial £40 with our secondary, if broken, an eventual £37 and “perhaps” a bottom. There will certainly be a need for “fingers crossed” becoming a valid part of any trading strategy, should this Gilt discover an excuse to wander below 40 pounds.

FUTURES

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FUTURES

Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Prior
11:33:50PM	BRENT	6537.5	6502	6338	6123	6601	6654	6706	6774	6560	‘cess
11:36:47PM	GOLD	3860.14									‘cess
11:42:54PM	FTSE	9451									Success
11:47:04PM	STOX50	5605.7	5573	5558	5538	5603	5618	5673	5729	5568	Success
11:38:21PM	GERMANY	24230									Success
11:42:45PM	US500	6710.4									Shambles
11:45:22PM	DOW	46415									‘cess
11:48:37PM	NASDAQ	24796.7									Success
11:51:59PM	JAPAN	44778									‘cess

 

1/10/2025 FTSE Closed at 9446 points. Change of 1.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,819,950,477 a change of -0.05%

30/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9350 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,823,355,297 a change of 26.57%

29/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9299 points. Change of 0.16%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,390,872,598 a change of -5.48%

26/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9284 points. Change of 0.77%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,703,129,904 a change of 4.79%

25/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9213 points. Change of -0.4%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,442,375,561 a change of -9.6%

24/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9250 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,020,048,725 a change of -2.61%

23/09/2025 FTSE Closed at 9223 points. Change of -0.03%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 6,181,494,945 a change of 35.23%

SUCCESS above means both FAST & SLOW targets were met. ‘CESS means just the FAST target met and probably the next time it is exceeded, movement to the SLOW target shall commence.

Our commentary is in two sections. Immediately below are today’s updated comments. If our commentary remains valid, the share can be found in the bottom section which has a RED heading. Hopefully, this will mean you no longer need to flip back through previous reports. HYPERLINKS DISABLED IN THIS VERSION

Please remember, all prices are mid-price (halfway between the Buy and Sell). When we refer to a price CLOSING above a specific level, we are viewing the point where we can regard a trend as changing. Otherwise, we are simply speculating on near term trading targets. Our website is www.trendsandtargets.com.

UPDATE. We often give an initial and a secondary price. If the initial is exceeded, we still expect it to fall back but the next time the initial is bettered, the price should continue to the secondary. The converse it true with price drops.

We can be contacted at info@trendsandtargets.com. Spam filters set to maximum so only legit emails get through…

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Section One – Outlook Updated Today. Click here for Section Two – Outlook Remains Valid shares

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LSE:AAL Anglo American Close Mid-Price: 2773 Percentage Change: -0.43% Day High: 2814 Day Low: 2746

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LSE:AFC AFC Energy Close Mid-Price: 9.72 Percentage Change: -0.82% Day High: 9.75 Day Low: 9.4

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LSE:AVCT Avacta. Close Mid-Price: 61.5 Percentage Change: + 3.36% Day High: 64.5 Day Low: 59.5

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LSE:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 12436 Percentage Change: + 11.21% Day High: 12462 Day Low: 11476

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1050.8 Percentage Change: + 0.56% Day High: 1057 Day Low: 1041

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LSE:MRO Melrose. Close Mid-Price: 630.8 Percentage Change: + 3.61% Day High: 627.6 Day Low: 603.2

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1467 Percentage Change: + 2.19% Day High: 1472 Day Low: 1433

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