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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) staging movement?

#Brent #Nasdaq  Stage Fright manifests in strange ways, not least of which being the state of the FTSE.  The UK market has comprehensively moved above its prior high of 8908 points and is now fluttering in the breeze, just awaiting an updraft to get it moving properly. My own experience with Stage Fright was rather more vivid, my name called at the high school assembly one Friday morning. I’d apparently won a National Award for something I’d no knowledge of being entered for, and was to make my way on stage to receive a trophy and a cheque! Manoeuvring past an entire school determined to trip me, almost running up the stairs to the stage, the top step caught me, a spectacular nosedive following to the headmasters feet. Unlike with Frodo or Harry Potter, neither a magic ring or invisibility cloak was available and the sound of laughter still resonates in my ears. The headmaster pulled me upright, made a show of dusting my shoulders, and asked for a few words about the award and win.

At this point, an important discovery loomed, one which probably shaped my life. Furious at being laughed at, furious about the lack of warning, and furious about being clumsy, I let rip at the laughing morons taking pleasure in someone else’s discomfort. Then a doze of acidic complements was poured over the teachers who’d placed me in this position, questioning just what they expected from a 13 year old’s speech. After successfully alienating the entire school and teaching staff, the headmaster grabbed the microphone before any commentary started on the janitorial staff and their lack of care about the carpet up to the stage. Essentially, I learned I do not suffer from stage fright and should never, ever, be allowed to speak in public when angry. Amusingly, when winning the same award a year later, before the school assembly award ceremony I was seated at the side of the stage and ready to walk on, curtsey and smile, and accept a little pat on the head. Never again did that high school trust me holding a microphone!

 

So, the question is, shall the FTSE trip on the current top step, only to run off-stage, or shall it continue onward? There’s a bigger problem looming as the index is now in the holiday season, just days away from the utter boredom of August where it risks the index bouncing from around 8900 points to 9000 points while it pretends being useful, despite everyone being at Butlins for their annual vacation month, a month which has somehow become around 6 weeks long stretching from July through to the first week of September.

Obviously we’re being very cynical but the feeling of the UK market suggests we may be about to see the start of a “Santa Rally”, one which shall commence sometime in October and last until the year end. It is probably worth remembering the FTSE has moved from a low of 7500 back in April to a recent 9000 points, a fairly remorseless 20% rise over a four month period. The situation now is of a demand the FTSE close a session above 9017 points to signal the next climbing cycle is commencing.

This is interesting, because from a near term perspective, above 8996 points should now signal the possibility of movement to an initial 9052 points with our secondary, if beaten, at 9075 points. Either ambition certainly gives the FTSE sufficient excuse to close above 9017 and thus trigger some Big Picture potentials. In this scenario, the tightest stop loss level is quite attractive at 8950 points.

Our alternate scenario allows weakness below 8950 risking triggering reversal to an initial 8914 with our secondary, if broken, at 8890 and a possible bounce.

 

In summary, the story with the FTSE is about at transparent as the current debate about Epstein from the USA media.

 

 

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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
9:19:23PM BRENT 6895.7 6768 6717 6654 6840 6906 6923 6974 6856 Shambles
9:21:09PM GOLD 3338.97
9:23:26PM FTSE 8983.5
9:44:43PM STOX50 5383.5 ‘cess
9:47:02PM GERMANY 24404.7 ‘cess
9:49:58PM US500 6302.6 ‘cess
10:14:19PM DOW 44512.5 ‘cess
10:17:00PM NASDAQ 23092 22867 22821 22726 22986 23109 23159 23323 23026 ‘cess
10:19:12PM JAPAN 40066

 

17/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8972 points. Change of 0.52%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,503,178,257 a change of -5.51%
16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%

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:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 351.2 Percentage Change: + 2.51% Day High: 352 Day Low: 343.7

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 4059 Percentage Change: + 1.37% Day High: 4072 Day Low: 4018

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 78.2 Percentage Change: + 2.36% Day High: 78.94 Day Low: 77.7

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.5 Percentage Change: + 1.19% Day High: 8.55 Day Low: 8.45

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 65.4 Percentage Change: + 4.47% Day High: 65.4 Day Low: 61.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1010 Percentage Change: + 2.19% Day High: 1009.5 Day Low: 985.4

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 22.65 Percentage Change: + 0.67% Day High: 23.2 Day Low: 21.8

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1067.5 Percentage Change: + 1.62% Day High: 1072 Day Low: 1060

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1333 Percentage Change: + 2.22% Day High: 1349.5 Day Low: 1315.5

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 412.1 Percentage Change: + 1.10% Day High: 412.8 Day Low: 408.1

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Wishbone Gold Plc (LSE:WSBN) about to make music?

#Gold #Stoxx50  Despite receiving a few emails about Wishbone Gold, our normal inclination would be to avoid analysis, due to shares below 1p being outrageously effected by “the spread”, along with sentiment in chatrooms providing wild and weird influences on prices. However, once upon a time there was a rock group called Wishbone Ash, never particularly famous but known for their use of the two lead guitarists harmonising with each other. The band were credited with influencing just about everyone in the music field, The Eagles to name just one.

A couple of chums and I spent our teens either building motorcycles or playing guitar and one of the guys insisted we listen to Wishbone Ash’s album Argos, his argument being we’d learn a lot from the groups style. Unfortunately, we also ended up learning how to play many of the tracks on that album, particularly one called “Blowing Free”, arguably getting to the point where our own recordings were superior to the original band. It was a lot of fun, though hard work as the driving force was one of our number intending to become a professional musician. He accomplished this ambition, only for his dream to be stifled when an offer to join an already famous band in Los Angeles was declined, due to him not wishing to leave the UK, Scotland, and his family. But he remains as an on-demand session musician in the UK and Europe but still hasn’t ever been on an aircraft.

When we got together a few years ago, for a giggle I played the opening chords for “Blowing Free”, the other pair picking up guitars and joining in seamlessly.  It was like 30+ years hadn’t passed, our wives gobsmacked at music they’d never heard previously from any of us. The often incessant practice sessions as teenagers had certainly sunk in. While Wishbone Ash had effectively stopped performing before we picked up guitars, they certainly influenced us!

What sort of experience should we anticipate with Wishbone Gold?

 

Presently trading around 0.625p, we suspect the share price needs exceed 0.785 to trigger “proper” movement as this should allow a surge in share price value to an initial 1.07p. Hopefully the company have some news polished up and ready to release which involves a story about a Goose and Golden Eggs! The 1.07 level looks fairly key, proving an impressive potential of movement to 1.45p along with (visually) some probable hesitation.

Until such time the share closes above the Blue downtrend, we are somewhat nervous for the company prospects, especially as our calculations project any drop targets prefaced with minus signs at present. However, perhaps the surge in Gold values above the 3,000 US dollar level shall prove useful as there’s very little inhibiting the metal to now reach for a future 3,715 dollars. Certainly, if the price of Gold again wanders above the 3,400 point, things are liable to become interesting fairly quickly for companies active in the field of shiny dreams.

 

 

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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
10:30:30PM BRENT 6814.7
10:36:26PM GOLD 3346.76 3319 3302 3277 3336 3377 3404 3445 3340 Success
10:40:21PM FTSE 8976 ‘cess
10:43:32PM STOX50 5342 5286 5275 5211 5335 5362 5379 5410 5330 Success
10:46:41PM GERMANY 24181
10:49:06PM US500 6258.9 ‘cess
10:51:49PM DOW 44188.5
11:02:18PM NASDAQ 22890 ‘cess
11:06:55PM JAPAN 39551 Success

 

16/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8926 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,765,608,248 a change of -10.27%
15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%

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:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 380.5 Percentage Change: + 0.87% Day High: 385.8 Day Low: 376.5

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 177.4 Percentage Change: + 0.68% Day High: 178 Day Low: 175.8

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.4 Percentage Change: + 1.20% Day High: 8.45 Day Low: 8.35

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 22.5 Percentage Change: -3.02% Day High: 24.3 Day Low: 22.45

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 210.2 Percentage Change: -0.76% Day High: 215 Day Low: 208.8

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 407.6 Percentage Change: -0.05% Day High: 411 Day Low: 406.8

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J.D. Wetherspoon (LSE:JDW) looking hopeful

#FTSE #Nasdaq  The pub industry is a puzzle to us. Here in Argyll, the number of licensed premises has been decimated over the years. When we considered moving into our current home 10 years ago, we’d sampled the village pub, delighted with the service and food. The place was just a few hundred yards away, ticking the final box in our decision to buy. Of course, by the time we actually moved house, the village pub was shut and sporting a For Sale sign. It remained unsold for an age, eventually finding a buyer who decided to develop the property to include flats for AirBnB rental. Perhaps inevitably, once the windows had been removed, the floors torn out, the money also ran out and the place has been empty since. It’s now the case four pubs have closed on the 8 mile stretch between our house and the local town.

But the other side of the coin is curious, two family members deciding to sell their own pubs in the country to corporate chains, both becoming millionaires in the process! One even accepted a job with the corporate, managing the pub he’d been running for years…

But the licensed trade, certainly here in Argyll, appears to be tough though we note Wetherspoons continue to complain about government damage to their industry, most recently adding plans to charge business rates by size of premises. However, it’s hard to take their complaints terribly seriously, when they announce their intention to open 6 new Wetherspoons branches in 2025, taking their outlet count to around 857…

 

Recent price movements with Wetherspoon are looking a little ambiguous as traffic below 750p threatens reversal down to an initial 730p and hopefully a bounce. The danger comes, if the share price closes below 730p, a box is ticked which allows longer term reversal to 662p. Our suspicion is any reversal to 730 shall be more an attempt to slow the price down, rather than a real reflection of price movements.

Alternately, it’s now the case where above 794 should trigger growth to an initial 825p with our secondary, if beaten, at a longer term 928p.

Our inclination is to lean toward optimism here.

 

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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
11:17:01PM BRENT 6829
11:19:22PM GOLD 3326.52 Success
11:21:56PM FTSE 8935.7 8933 8918 8877 8957 9009 9039 9075 8977
11:23:59PM STOX50 5340.5
11:26:02PM GERMANY 24004
11:37:34PM US500 6231.3 Shambles
11:46:14PM DOW 43922 ‘cess
11:48:27PM NASDAQ 22817.6 22800 22720 22612 22888 22946 22998 23064 22876 Success
11:50:53PM JAPAN 39600 ‘cess

 

15/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8938 points. Change of -0.67%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,311,247,266 a change of 37.8%
14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%

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:AV. Aviva Close Mid-Price: 631.2 Percentage Change: -0.63% Day High: 637 Day Low: 633

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LSE:BARC Barclays Close Mid-Price: 343.35 Percentage Change: -0.19% Day High: 346.75 Day Low: 341.05

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LSE:BME B & M Close Mid-Price: 234.3 Percentage Change: -9.08% Day High: 244.2 Day Low: 221

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LSE:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 344.5 Percentage Change: -0.43% Day High: 358.5 Day Low: 344

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LSE:EXPN Experian. Close Mid-Price: 4018 Percentage Change: + 4.28% Day High: 4058 Day Low: 3976

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 377.2 Percentage Change: + 0.11% Day High: 380.2 Day Low: 375.2

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LSE:IPF International Personal Finance. Close Mid-Price: 176.2 Percentage Change: + 0.69% Day High: 177 Day Low: 175

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LSE:RKH Rockhopper. Close Mid-Price: 62 Percentage Change: + 0.65% Day High: 63.4 Day Low: 60.2

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1053 Percentage Change: + 0.33% Day High: 1058.5 Day Low: 1052.5

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1315 Percentage Change: + 0.77% Day High: 1331.5 Day Low: 1310

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LSE:TSCO Tesco Close Mid-Price: 407.8 Percentage Change: -0.49% Day High: 410.4 Day Low: 406.4

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Silver Ounce vs US Dollar (PM:XAGUSD) getting exciting!!!

#Brent #WallSt  Our historical refusal to comment on Silver relates to a price movement in 2011. We’d provided a report of movement potentials, one which was proving incredibly correct as the price surged from the 20 dollar level to over 40 dollars. On the Friday when it achieved our highs, something quite awful happened just after 2pm. At the time, we speculated the grown ups from the Silver Price Manipulation office had gone out for lunch, leaving a poorly paid intern in control of the market.

When everyone returned from the pub, immediate horror clearly broke out, the price of Silver immediately being returned to the 30 dollar level. There was no breaking news driving the reversal, no similar movement in the price of Gold, just an emphatic feeling we’d been monitoring a commodity which was under manual control, now being manipulated with similar ease to someone sliding down the volume controls on a mixing deck. After our strop, we decided to cease covering Silver as the level of obvious manipulation during a trading session deserved an FSA investigation or stronger. While many folk regard the markets as “rigged” this was a truly unusual circumstance, one enacted without manipulation gaps at commencement of trade.

Obviously, our objection to market manipulation comes from the salient detail it can derail a lot of work, few things being more irritating.

And now, we come to the “however”…

 

The chart below shows Silver as being restrained below the 20 dollar level for the period 2015 until 2020. But from 2020 until 2025, the product was permitted to trade in the 20 to 30 dollar level. And now, we are curious whether the product is entering another 5 year phase, this time from the 30 to 40 dollar level? Events in the next few weeks should prove interesting but our software is now showing stronger potentials.

Above 38.5 dollars calculates with the potential of a lift to an initial 42 dollars with our secondary, if bettered, at a longer term 47 dollars. Obviously, the words “longer term” can be subjective when applied to Silver! But we suspect should the $47 level make an appearance, we shall not be surprised if the metal discovers a reason to melt down toward the 30 dollar level, perhaps spending the next 5 years bouncing around between 30 and 40 US Dollars.

This conclusion is obviously rather contrived, based on an expectation the price of Silver shall again find itself under manual control along with an expectation this particular Leopard shall not change its spots..

 

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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
11:23:38PM BRENT 6859.9 6853 6777 6667 6947 6970 7086 7177 6930 Shambles
11:27:37PM GOLD 3343.93
11:31:12PM FTSE 9014.5 ‘cess
11:33:55PM STOX50 5371.5 ‘cess
11:36:42PM GERMANY 24189.6 ‘cess
11:39:29PM US500 6261.3 Success
11:54:57PM DOW 44406.5 44084 43944 43768 44196 44468 44549 44704 44312 ‘cess
10:00:12PM NASDAQ 22834 ‘cess
10:03:19PM JAPAN 39463

 

14/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8998 points. Change of 0.64%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,854,245,348 a change of -14.23%
11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%

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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Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 635.2 Percentage Change: + 1.31% Day High: 634.8 Day Low: 622.8

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LSE:FRES Fresnillo. Close Mid-Price: 1542 Percentage Change: + 1.72% Day High: 1565 Day Low: 1532

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 376.8 Percentage Change: + 2.03% Day High: 376.6 Day Low: 364.6

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.35 Percentage Change: + 1.21% Day High: 8.35 Day Low: 8.2

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LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments. Close Mid-Price: 2005 Percentage Change: + 0.25% Day High: 2085 Day Low: 2000

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 998.4 Percentage Change: + 1.05% Day High: 999.4 Day Low: 980.8

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 23.15 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 23.7 Day Low: 22.7

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LSE:SRP Serco. Close Mid-Price: 212.4 Percentage Change: + 0.09% Day High: 213.6 Day Low: 210

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LSE:TERN Tern Plc Close Mid-Price: 1.05 Percentage Change: -4.98% Day High: 1.15 Day Low: 1.05

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LSE:TSCO Tesco. Close Mid-Price: 409.8 Percentage Change: + 2.17% Day High: 408.1 Day Low: 401.4

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Barclays Plc (LSE:BARC) and a line on a chart.

#Gold #SP500  The contrived crash of March 20th 2020 certainly serves to provide a useful starting point to examine how the three retail banks have performed in the period since. To our utter amazement, NatWest (LSE:NWG) has outperformed the other retail banks, even achieving a high of 537p fairly recently, coming close to something we shall regard as a major trigger level at 570p. Above this point, we shall even consider using the word “strength” in conversations about the retail banks. This is fairly radical as historically we’ve cheerfully referred to the Banking Sector as the “Clown Sector”.

But as the chart below shows, Natwest has effectively gone up 5 fold since its 100p low in 2020, whereas Barclays has “only” achieved a 3 fold gain from its 100p low in 2020, effectively matching the behaviour of its stable mate Lloyds who moved from 25p to 75p. Unfortunately, the scaling of the chart fails to convey the massive difference, other than highlight NatWest is in the lead.

 

Barclays are certainly giving sufficient reason for some puzzlement over its relatively lethargic behaviour but the share price now needs to close a session below 310p to force us to stir the tea leaves again and revisit our future target levels. The immediate situation suggests the potential for moves above 346p to hopefully trigger an uphill wander in the direction of 370p next with our secondary, if bettered, now at 395p. This secondary is a big deal, capable of allowing this share price to actually close a session above 386p, a visually important trigger level.

From our perspective, even with such a dangerous sector as the Banks, closure above 386p shall present something about as close as possible to a trade becoming “safe”, certainly as far as a long term target of 513p, a potential profit of a reasonable 32%. It’s certainly unusual and uncomfortable taking such a stance as we’re traditionally guilty of a surfeit of caution!

For things to go wrong with Barclays, their share price now needs dip below 310p to give rise to worry, such a movement calculating with the potential of a drip down to an initial 291p. Our longer term secondary, should such a level break, works out at 248p, a target which sounds absurd but somehow also matches the mid-term Red uptrend, giving hope for a bounce if such a target makes an appearance.

 

For now, our inclination is to lean toward optimism for the longer term. But if you walk passed a vendor selling lucky charms, it’ll not do any harm to buy one…

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop
1:09:13AM BRENT 7025
1:11:27AM GOLD 3355.3 3308 3283 3254 3331 3370 3375 3406 3348
1:14:51AM FTSE 8944.6
1:16:57AM STOX50 5380.2
1:21:09AM GERMANY 24220
1:25:47AM US500 6251.4 6241 6236 6218 6270 6270 6283 6300 6247
1:32:37AM DOW 44312.5
2:08:37AM NASDAQ 22755.5

 

11/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8941 points. Change of -0.38%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,493,815,888 a change of -13.23%
10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%
3/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8823 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,853,262,556 a change of -31.49%

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:CPI Capita Close Mid-Price: 347.5 Percentage Change: -1.28% Day High: 355 Day Low: 341.5

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LSE:IAG British Airways Close Mid-Price: 369.3 Percentage Change: -0.16% Day High: 374.7 Day Low: 367.4

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 327.8 Percentage Change: -1.09% Day High: 334.8 Day Low: 326.3

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FTSE for FRIDAY (FTSE:UKX) looking good.

#FTSE #GOLD  The FTSE has behaved as if the market has discovered how to use the product which makes Scotland more tolerable! It has just experienced 11 sessions of very light gains, nothing spectacular, but the lunge to 9,000 points on Thursday was noteworthy. Thankfully we’re able to now provide a scenario which should see the UK index exceed 9.000 points, doubtless sparking dancing in the streets. As for our miracle product discovery, it transpires an old fashioned thing called “Castor Oil” has an amazing effect on Horse Fly bites, along with Midge bites. And a chum in Germany advises it’s also brilliant for Mosquito bites. When buying Castor Oil, it’s important it comes in a glass bottle, ideally a dark brown container. This type of packaging is used for the best quality oil. Personally, a couple of years ago when two Horse Fly bites made my left hard unusable for 6 months, everything the medical fraternity tried failed. But as the recipient of a couple of bites on Monday, within 8 hours Castor Oil reduced the swelling and within 24 hours, the red circle of infection was gone. And now, just 4 days later, one of the bites is almost invisible. Better still the Midge bite itch can be treated with a tiny smear of oil and again, just 24 hours later, the evidence of the bite has vanished.

For folk who react badly to insect bites, we commend a quality Castor Oil whether you are in Scotland or anywhere else, where the insect population regards humans as part of their diet.

 

The FTSE is certainly behaving as if it’s started to ignore trauma in the country, Tariffs from the USA not causing problems, no worries about illegal immigrants, UK interest rates more than double those of the EU. While we suspect some artificial drama will pause growth at the 9,000 point level, doubtless blaming trader nerves at the visit to this psychological milestone.

Now above 8980 points calculates with the potential of a lift  to a tame 8996 points with our secondary, if bettered, at 9074 points and a number which should confirm the 9,000 point level isn’t inviolate. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level works out at 8925 points. From our viewpoint, with the FTSE achieving higher highs, the index is now regarded as facing a long term visit to 10,000 points!

Our converse argument, if things intend go wrong, below 8925 points now risks triggering reversal down to an initial 8731 points with our secondary, if broken, an eventual bottom at 8640 points. To get into real trouble and trash our potentials for the Big Picture, the index needs move below the level of the trend break on the chart, effectively 8500 points.

 

Have a good weekend. It looks unpleasantly hot and thus, we’ve had friends inviting themselves for a visit.

 

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:12:27PM BRENT 6843.2 6629 5971 6896 7014 7051 6730 Success
11:15:55PM GOLD 3325.4 3305 3297 3321 3326 3332 3318 ‘cess
11:18:59PM FTSE 8980.9 8893 8860 8928 8994 9005 8940 ‘cess
11:39:18PM STOX50 5439.1 5432 5424 5450 5468 5477 5431
11:42:05PM GERMANY 24451 24428 24367 24488 24643 24846 24435
11:44:24PM US500 6283.1 6230 6209 6256 6290 6297 6270
11:47:52PM DOW 44651 44298 44194 44412 44775 44893 44661 Success
11:50:03PM NASDAQ 22845.8 22713 22679 22797 22900 22968 22838 Shambles
11:53:21PM JAPAN 39737 39601 39477 39720 39752 39785 39663

 

10/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8975 points. Change of 1.22%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,178,779,712 a change of 11.73%
9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%
3/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8823 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,853,262,556 a change of -31.49%
2/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,084,402,553 a change of 23.76%

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:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **

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LSE:BARC Barclays. Close Mid-Price: 343.65 Percentage Change: + 1.18% Day High: 344.85 Day Low: 340.05

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom Close Mid-Price: 195.5 Percentage Change: -0.76% Day High: 198.8 Day Low: 195.4

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 369.9 Percentage Change: + 2.10% Day High: 370.5 Day Low: 355.3

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 4938 Percentage Change: + 2.15% Day High: 4956 Day Low: 4870

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LSE:OPG OPG Power Ventures. Close Mid-Price: 8.25 Percentage Change: + 7.14% Day High: 8.25 Day Low: 7.65

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce Close Mid-Price: 975.4 Percentage Change: -0.91% Day High: 990 Day Low: 973.6

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1046 Percentage Change: + 0.24% Day High: 1055.5 Day Low: 1032.5

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 6335 Percentage Change: + 2.34% Day High: 6400 Day Low: 6220

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1287 Percentage Change: + 2.31% Day High: 1296.5 Day Low: 1277.5

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Jet2 (LSE:JET2) better late than never!

#Gold #Nasdaq  When our broadband router suddenly turned Red at 3am, there was no option but to give up. A BT Openreach van has been doing his stuff with the fibre optic box along the road all morning, so I can finally hit the publish button!

It’s refreshing to write a report without a salacious photograph of a Crow wearing a white bra… But in the case of Jet2, we can include an excerpt from the chart which illustrates an issue with recent share price movements! We’re choosing to highlight a chart signal which invariably proves quite reliable. The share price broke below an obvious Red uptrend, then four sessions later the share price exceeded the level of trend break. The level of the trend break was 1796p, yet a few days later the price closed the day at 1825p. From our perspective, this was a reasonable difference, making us suspect the “trend break” may be fake, essentially an excuse to slow down share price performance for whatever reason the market goblins invent.

We’ve a daft story about Jet2, involving the pair of us oversleeping and missing a flight to the idyllic destination of Benidorm. In our defence, this trip was an attempt to discover if the place was as bad as the media paint, hopefully having a bit of a laugh in the process. We’d booked tickets on a Jet2 flight from Leeds, just needing to wake our daughter up and get her to drive south. This particular bit of blackmail ensured she had use of my Range Rover for the next week, along with access to my Debit Card to pay for fuel. We arrived at Leeds and Jet2’s headquarters, got on the flight, discovered our apartment overlooked a bar with Full English Breakfast, Strippers every evening and Karaoke along with happy hours in early evenings.. It transpired Benidorm was everything everyone said, until we discovered life and restaurants on the north side of the town. Meanwhile our daughter, driving the petrol engine Range Rover, managed to spend more than we achieved in our week in hell. Quite how folk could leave the UK and establish their own little unassimilated colony completely escaped us. Then we recalled the worst case scenario, when a bunch of British settlers sailed to the US, eventually forming a country which still uses English, has plenty of Stripper bars, and the ideal breakfast is pretty close to a Full English. Aside from the fact North Americans do not know how to cook bacon or make toast, the latter due to their inability to make bread.

To be blunt, regardless of any near term fun and games, we suspect this share price intends head upward, once sufficient numbers of share traders believe everything is going wrong with their investment!

 

To get the dodgy potentials out of the way, below 1646 calculates with the potential of reversals to an initial 1612 with our secondary, if broken, at 1586p and hopefully a proper rebound., To get into proper trouble, the share needs finish a session below 1500p to send our eyebrows into orbit.  Until such a point, our inclination is to regard the market as “simply” mucking around.

Alternately, it feels more probable we should pay attention, if the share price staggers above 1750 as this should trigger movement to an initial 1800p as moves to a fairly useless 1810 are expected. But share price closure above 1800p should prove significant for the longer term, suggesting an ambition at an initial 2064p with our secondary, if exceeded, calculating at 2,202p and almost certain hesitation.

It looks like Jet2 should prove worth watching.

 

FUTURES

FUTURES

Time Issued Market Price At Issue Short Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Long Entry Fast Exit Slow Exit Stop Prior
11:23:49PM BRENT 6976
11:26:39PM GOLD 3319.96 3306 3300 3293 3316 3322 3328 3334 3309 ‘cess
11:29:51PM FTSE 8904.9 ‘cess
11:33:41PM STOX50 5465.4 Success
11:46:05PM GERMANY 24634.5 ‘cess
11:48:32PM US500 6264.7 Success
11:51:31PM DOW 44483.5 ‘cess
11:54:19PM NASDAQ 22867.1 22727 22671 22588 22818 22880 22936 22986 22790 Success
11:56:18PM JAPAN 39918

 

9/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8867 points. Change of 0.15%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,635,239,933 a change of -8.59%
8/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8854 points. Change of 0.55%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,070,905,643 a change of 38.98%
7/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8806 points. Change of -0.18%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,648,651,423 a change of 20.16%
4/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8822 points. Change of -0.01%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 3,036,552,845 a change of -37.43%
3/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8823 points. Change of 0.56%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 4,853,262,556 a change of -31.49%
2/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8774 points. Change of -0.13%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 7,084,402,553 a change of 23.76%
1/07/2025 FTSE Closed at 8785 points. Change of 0.29%. Total value traded through LSE was: £ 5,724,160,773 a change of 7.93%

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…

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

Click Epic to jump to share: LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **

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LSE:BT.A British Telecom. Close Mid-Price: 197 Percentage Change: + 0.87% Day High: 197.4 Day Low: 196.05

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LSE:CPI Capita. Close Mid-Price: 349.5 Percentage Change: + 1.01% Day High: 353 Day Low: 342

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LSE:IAG British Airways. Close Mid-Price: 362.3 Percentage Change: + 0.61% Day High: 363.2 Day Low: 358.7

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LSE:ITRK Intertek Close Mid-Price: 4834 Percentage Change: -0.17% Day High: 4878 Day Low: 4826

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer Close Mid-Price: 329.9 Percentage Change: -1.79% Day High: 335.6 Day Low: 330.3

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 984.4 Percentage Change: + 1.86% Day High: 987.6 Day Low: 971.2

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital Close Mid-Price: 24.5 Percentage Change: -2.00% Day High: 24.95 Day Low: 23

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LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust. Close Mid-Price: 1043.5 Percentage Change: + 0.24% Day High: 1047 Day Low: 1037

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LSE:SRP Serco Close Mid-Price: 209.2 Percentage Change: -0.66% Day High: 211.2 Day Low: 207

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 1258 Percentage Change: + 0.64% Day High: 1265.5 Day Low: 1247

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