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#Brent #SP500 We finally got around to binge watching Clarkson’s Farm (mostly excellent) over the weekend, one particular scene making my wife and I quite literally laugh out loud. Jeremy Clarkson and Lisa made themselves comfortable with a couple of drinks, enjoying their new nightcap regime, watching a pair of robots working a field without human intervention. It was funny, ‘cos we’ve found ourselves sitting down with a couple of coffees, chatting while watching our robot tractor keeping itself busy cutting grass. We were, of course, watching Clarkson because it was raining heavily outside, our robot parked in its private garage, secure and dry, robot wheels proving to be rubbish on wet grass, similar to any other type of tyre.

Natwest Group share price feels like it has hit its own patch of wet grass. It successfully hit the 692p level we proposed three weeks ago and it now is slithering around, failing to achieve our secondary of 736p. Instead, it has been spinning its wheels at the 726p level quite convincingly, “almost” making us suspect it’s going no higher. We’ve used parenthesis  around the word “almost” as we’re not convinced at the stall, suspecting it just needs a patch of decent weather in the marketplace to permit further acceleration.

Above 726p now calculates with an initial ambition at 740p with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at 760p, a price level where we think some further hesitation shall occur. But overall, the Big Picture now claims a distant 820p is exerting a long term attraction!

If things intend go wrong, below 688p looks a bit troublesome, capable of provoking reversal down to an initial 677p with our secondary, if broken, at 645p and visually, a point from which a rebound could easily be anticipated. If in such a zone, a Big Picture possibility of a bottom at 598p makes some sort of sense but absolutely nothing currently indicates such a cycle commencing.

Hopefully Natwest share price movements prove more enjoyable than the horror of watching cows and sheep giving birth on Clarkson’s Farm, the camera not missing any details. The scenes certainly gave sufficient excuse to make coffee, pour drinks, or go out and check the robot mower was comfortable in its garage.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
10:50:27PM	BRENT	8137.5	8058	7667	7226	8222	8298	8400	8512	8214
1:58:20AM	GOLD	4339.02
2:02:02AM	FTSE	10894.2
2:08:05AM	STOX50	6535
2:15:31AM	GERMANY	26360.4
2:20:46AM	US500	7753.6	7284	7214	7110	7450	7792	7858	7940	7691
2:43:01AM	DOW	54024.8
2:48:21AM	NASDAQ	29725.9
2:54:20AM	JAPAN	66240

 

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:ASC Asos. Close Mid-Price: 394.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 400 Day Low: 380.5

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LSE:AV. Aviva. Close Mid-Price: 712.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 717 Day Low: 706.6

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 235 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 238.4 Day Low: 232.2

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LSE:DGE Diageo. Close Mid-Price: 1790 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1827.5 Day Low: 1719.5

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LSE:GENL Genel. Close Mid-Price: 62.7 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 66.6 Day Low: 51.6

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1343 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1345 Day Low: 1307

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 738 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 743 Day Low: 719

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7500 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 7550 Day Low: 7390

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*** End of “Updated Today” comments on shares. Listed below are those where commentary remains valid.

Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:RR. Rolls Royce** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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Last week, we dwelled extensively on the difference between a closing price of 10,910 points and 10,908 points. To most sane folk, the two levels are effectively identical but with the FTSE spending the last week carefully avoiding CLOSING a day above 10,910 points – the market high from February this year! – with exquisite care given to respect the FTSE trigger level. As the candles show on the chart extract, despite plenty if intraday forays above the Green closing price line, the FTSE has proven unable to break free upward.

Once again, the importance of Closing Prices is being illustrated, it being a frequent truism to “really” break free of a trend, only a ‘Higher High’ closing price dare be thought of as the only safe signal. Though, of course, there is no such thing as “safe” when discussing the stock markets, either indices, commodities, or share prices. When examining near term movements, it’s obviously virtually impossible to use closing prices but for the FTSE, it certainly appears as if movement next above 10,952 points should bring a visit to an initial 11,017 points with our secondary, if exceeded, working out at 11,088 points. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level appears to be 10,894 points, a bit wide but does reflect the potential for the number of points gained.

In the interests of balance, we’re able to provide an alternate scenario while we impatiently count down the days until the next Grand Prix (just 2 weeks). The situation is a bit wobbly, suggesting FTSE movement below 10,830 points risks triggering reversal down to an initial 10,751 points with our secondary, if broken, a very probable market bottom at 10,721 points. Our visual suspicion with these dance steps will be a belief the UK is indeed “parking” the index, while the grown ups from the market enjoy Benidorm, Butlins, or Blackpool… Meanwhile, the FTSE should be “trapped” between 10,750 and around 10,900 points.

There’s one really unexpected side effect of living in Argyll. We’ve not actually taken a conventional holiday for years. Despite whinging about the foul weather, at the drop of a cliche, we can take a day trip to really nice beach destinations, canoe down the river and paddle along the sea shore to our house, even go skiing in winter with Glencoe around an hour away. Or more often, just spent time mucking around varied projects in the back garden or forest. Talking to other folk from the area, it seems very few people bother going on holiday in any conventional sense.

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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
11:00:33PM	BRENT	8235.5	7816	7757		8128	8300	8414		8143	‘cess
11:06:12PM	GOLD	4240.83	4224	4206		4254	4284	4304		4251
11:30:49PM	FTSE	10860.6	10849	10831		10882	10916	10936		10890
11:33:03PM	STOX50	6500.5	6470	6450		6503	6526	6540		6501
11:35:27PM	GERMANY	26170.4	26083	25986		26222	26268	26323		26160
11:39:53PM	US500	7714.8	7702	7674		7726	7746	7762		7713	‘cess
11:44:36PM	DOW	53892	53826	53748		54034	54050	54088		53888	‘cess
11:47:45PM	NASDAQ	29470.7	29145	29097		29465	29574	29680		29370	Success
11:50:41PM	JAPAN	65779	64901	64786		65533	66351	66605		65826	Success

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: 710.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 714 Day Low: 700

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LSE:DGE Diageo. Close Mid-Price: 1732.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1824 Day Low: 1635

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1533.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1585.2 Day Low: 1533.4

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 721 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 730 Day Low: 704

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 54.3 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 56 Day Low: 49.6

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7375 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 7460 Day Low: 7355

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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Buying, selling and investing in shares is not without risk. Market and company movement will affect your performance and you may get back less than you invest. Neither Trends and Targets Ltd, Shareprice, or Interactive Investor will be responsible for any losses that may be incurred as a result of following a trading idea.

#Gold #Dax Hopefully this is our final grumble about Argyll’s weather for August. The annual monsoon has arrived, delivering what feels like a month’s worth of rain in the space of an hour, accompanied by 60mph winds, temperatures dropping to 11°C, and a garden waterfall that sounds like an F-35 making a vertical take-off. In other words, here in our corner of Scotland, the weather is dreadful, though at least it remains reassuringly predictable. If the usual pattern holds, the final couple of weeks of August should be reasonably pleasant before September ushers in autumn with a proper cold snap.

Of greater irritation, perhaps, is knowing pushing the magic button to retract the mechanical roof of the VW shall be a rare event for the rest of the year! It would be accurate to admit this £1,500 car (for the dogs to ruin) still rates as one of the most fun vehicles ever owned. Needless to say, it is being properly maintained as a “keeper”.

Our predictive abilities also appear to apply to Georgina Energy Plc. We reviewed their share price potentials a couple of months ago, giving a couple of target levels, both of which have now been achieved. The next big deal demands the share price CLOSE a session above 13.8p but so far, movements have proven a bit reticent, the highest closing price being 13.75p.  From our perspective, missing target by just 0.05p is actually a big deal, a suggestion the market isn’t yet ready to allow the share price to fly solo. However, intraday traffic (not the closing price) allowed for the share price to exceed our 13.8p twice in the last week, so perhaps there is room for optimism.

It’s certainly now the case where movement above 14.8p shall be seen as triggering travel to an initial 15.8p with our secondary, if beaten, at 19.5p. These are fairly significant ambitions, launching the share price into a zone where a future 33p shall be viewed as exerting a distant attraction.

Of course, there is always a downside scenario. A fall below 11.5p would increase the risk of a retreat towards an initial target at 8p. Should that level fail to hold, our secondary support lies at around 5.7p, where we would expect a more substantial “bouncy bottom” to emerge.

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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
10:35:29PM	BRENT	7875.7
10:41:05PM	GOLD	4246.21	4064	3974	3876	4088	4268	4288	4364	4218	Success
11:02:11PM	FTSE	10896.2									‘cess
11:04:23PM	STOX50	6492.6
11:07:43PM	GERMANY	26229.2	26122	25992	25842	26261	26442	26465	27086	26160
11:17:34PM	US500	7731.7									‘cess
11:20:41PM	DOW	54424.3									‘cess
11:29:40PM	NASDAQ	29478.5									‘cess
11:34:33PM	JAPAN	65891

 

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: 701.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 704.6 Day Low: 691.6

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LSE:BME B & M. Close Mid-Price: 232.2 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 234 Day Low: 229

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 409.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 418.1 Day Low: 409.4

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1570.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1581.2 Day Low: 1544.4

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 713 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 719 Day Low: 686

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LSE:SFOR S4 Capital. Close Mid-Price: 51.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 51.9 Day Low: 39

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7345 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 7415 Day Low: 7315

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#FTSE #DOW We’ve had a couple of enquiries, asking our opinion of Helios share price. A constituent of the FTSE 250, the company are active in the Middle East and Africa, throwing up telecommunication towers all over the place. According to Wikipedia, they own and maintain over 10,500 towers, keeping the cellular market alive across the continent. If only we had something similar here in Argyll, an area of Scotland where cellular reception is kindly described as “spotty”. For instance, we now receive a reliable signal in our house, a vast improvement over the situation where we’d to go to the top of the garden to get a signal. But 3Mobile turned things on their head, if we continue up the cliff and into the forest, the cellular signal matches the coverage map from 3Mobile. Somehow or other, the mobile signal only covers about 100 metres inland from the shore line, then becomes unreliable. The crazy thing, we can actually see the tower from the hill behind the house but the cellular company has chosen to point their antenna fairly low down.

Perhaps they have to pay a “rent” to provide better coverage?

It certainly can be an irritation, if having a gossip with a friend while out with the dog, as there are numerous stretches where a conversation will suddenly go dead. Thankfully, it’s easy to warn the other person in advance, thus halting the amusing game of manners, trying to call each other back at the same time, getting connected and then cut off again. In virtually all areas of life, Argyll can be quite a bit behind the rest of the world. Though we have moved from Black & White TV to colour TV and also boast Hot & Cold running water! And about 10 years ago, the main road into the Cowal Peninsula was upgraded from an exciting single track to twin lanes,  making the drive less challenging. It’s also worth mentioning any dream of there being a motorway anywhere in Argyll would be an empty hope. Despite Argyll hosting part of the A82, the busiest road in the West, very little is judged to deserve dual carriageway upgrades.

Obviously, it doesn’t take much to trigger a rant about Argyll. At first glance, Helios Towers Plc seemed incapable of igniting a response, then we remembered Argyll’s little foible with cellular communications…

However, Helios are operating in an area of the world where Heat, Terrain, Wildlife, the People, are unlikely to be a problem, so doubtless they avoid all the usual difficulties Argyll faces.

As the chart below shows, the Green line represents the previous “All Time High” closing price at 205p. In May of this year, the market clearly thought the 205p risked becoming an issue, opting to manipulate (Gap) the share price over this little Red Circled obstacle. When we say Closing Prices are a big signal, this was one of these occasions where we’ve little choice but to judge the signal as seriously important for the longer term.

Our suspicion now is next time Helios share price closes a session above 205p, a journey to an initial 234p should commence with our longer term secondary, if exceeded, working out at a future impressive 293p. This is obviously a fairly significant change in the share price valuation, making us suspect the company perhaps have some good news tucked up their sleeves, awaiting release. Regardless, keeping an eye on Helios would certainly make some sense in the days ahead.

If trouble is planned,  their share price needs close below 190p to potentially spoil the aforementioned targets and instead, kick off a cycle downhill to an initial 166p with our secondary, if broken, at 139p. At present, there’s nothing suggesting this should become an issue, though our software demands we mention it.

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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
11:40:30PM	BRENT	7795									Success
11:43:31PM	GOLD	4084.93									Success
11:48:06PM	FTSE	10908.5	10868	10853	10828	10891	10931	10953	10993	10892	‘cess
11:51:01PM	STOX50	6522.6									Success
11:54:10PM	GERMANY	26402									Success
11:56:26PM	US500	7751.3
11:01:38PM	DOW	54236.2	53139	52675	52134	53378	54286	54500	55215	54056	Success
11:05:24PM	NASDAQ	29692.2									‘cess
11:10:05PM	JAPAN	65601

 

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:BP. BP PLC. Close Mid-Price: 525 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 562.9 Day Low: 523.4

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 152.9 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 154.85 Day Low: 151.65

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1584.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1610 Day Low: 1562.8

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 716 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 726 Day Low: 705.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1529.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1547.2 Day Low: 1517.2

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LSE:SPX Spirax. Close Mid-Price: 7290 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 7300 Day Low: 7135

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2248 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2262 Day Low: 2208

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LSE:STAR Star Energy. Close Mid-Price: 26 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 26.4 Day Low: 25.4

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:AV. Aviva** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GENL Genel** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc** **LSE:SBRY Sainsbury** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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#Gold #Nasdaq My wife works for a corporate and decided she’d spend August working from home, principally due to knowing her offices would be mostly empty for the month. The pile of electronics (and a new office desk) has been assembled, allowing her to create a “wife cave” with secure communication through our already secure network. But the point of the story was quite a surprise. Habitually, completing our outlook for market futures is an excuse to make the 2nd latte of the day, along with a bacon roll. Smoked Back Bacon is allowed on Mondays and Fridays, perhaps a safe ration by NHS standards.  Needless to say, our Monday after work reward had a couple of extra rashers of bacon thrown into the Ninja cooker, along with a couple of slices of toasted bread.

Long story short, interrupting wifes video call by sliding a plate with toast and bacon within reach proved hilarious, the immediate response being a chant of “I’ve got bacon!” to make her video colleague in New York jealous.  Apparently, by the end of the day, “legend” status was bestowed upon me, due to my wife being the only person with an in-house slave! And once my wife shut down her Cisco unit, it seems the best food ever is unexpected food. But on Friday, if I fail to serve bacon sandwiches, the world will end!

It was all quite strange, finally a benefit of my habit of working 24 hours a day, rather than my wifes rigid 8 (ish) hour days. I do a few hours on the markets, off for a few hours, run experiments for a few hours, nap for 90 minutes, run more test scenarios, then cut the grass or do a dog walk, and finally catch the closing numbers for the FTSE and load them into our software. And then, we try and figure out what’s hot or what’s not. But now, there’s an order to provide bacon around 10am on Mondays and Fridays too. Stress comes from really odd angles… It is going to be interesting in a couple of weeks, when bacon is switched out for heavenly ‘Brie and Pineapple’ as the spread on toast. It’s fairly certain 2 people suddenly working from home will create some surprise discussions. We dare not consider the toilet seat position, during market trading hours!!!

We’ve trawled through the history of Diploma Plc, looking for the usual juicy stories. Unfortunately – from our salacious point of view – there are none, the Wikipedia page proving to be quite boring, a presentation unsullied by anyone with an axe to grind. For example, the final paragraph on their Wiki page reads;

“Diploma is a distributor, operating in the three sectors of Controls (including specialised wiring), Seals (including seals and gaskets) and Life Sciences (including consumables and instrumentation)” This is about as anti-septic as it gets, so perhaps some good times should be ahead for Diploma Plc. There are not even accusations of staff sneaking the odd bacon roll! Maybe we should take a positive stance on their share price future potentials?

Currently, it seems above 7490p should trigger share price recovery to an initial 7812p. If bettered, our longer term secondary works out at a future 7912p,  This is all quite a big deal, indicating the potential of All Time Highs but we run out of fingers, if being asked to count above 7912p. Should the market intend exceed this level, we should therefore anticipate the share price being “gapped” up at the open in the days ahead, an absurd notion but one which often proves quite accurate. Should the market opt to gift the share price with opening second gaps, it becomes probable a future intention above 7912p is expected.

And finally, one of my dog walking chums sought me out on Monday, wanting to ask “What’s Wrong?”. She’d picked up my writing style had changed over the last week, this being due to running articles “through” ChatGpt and accepting its improvements to make the writing style smoother and more professional. Needless to say, AI has now been ditched, a friend noticing (and complaining) about the change being something worth paying attention to. As as result, our dodgy grammar shall remain and anyone who does not like it can go visit a duck.

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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
10:07:18PM	BRENT	8282.4
10:11:43PM	GOLD	4055.01	4026	4008	3987	4042	4058	4069	4077	4048
10:17:31PM	FTSE	10871
10:21:15PM	STOX50	6442.3
11:07:55PM	GERMANY	26095.4									‘cess
10:57:01PM	US500	7608.6									Success
11:25:49PM	DOW	53280.3									Success
11:44:47PM	NASDAQ	28835.8	28200	28010	27727	28509	28854	29353	30120	28586	‘cess
11:53:33PM	JAPAN	64090

 

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:AZN Astrazeneca. Close Mid-Price: 11500 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 12080 Day Low: 11414

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LSE:IGG IG Group. Close Mid-Price: 1371 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1481 Day Low: 1312

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 722.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 725 Day Low: 714.6

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1506.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1527.8 Day Low: 1495.8

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#Supergirl #StarTrek They say a week is a long time in politics. In the stock market—and for Barclays in particular—the three weeks since our last look at the share price have felt like a lifetime.

The shares briefly hinted at a bullish breakout before immediately reversing course the following day, generating what amounted to a “cancel” signal as the price was manipulated (or gapped) below the blue line on the chart. That is not an encouraging development. There is now a growing likelihood that a move below 504p will lead to a test of 453p. Should that level fail to hold, our longer-term secondary target remains 420p, although our confidence in that outcome is lower. For anyone considering a short position, a break below 486p would represent a more prudent point at which to light the fuse.

The recent price action reminds us of the new series of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Episode one featured spectacular writing, with the Starship Enterprise seemingly responsible for the existence of the Asteroid Belt, the extinction of the dinosaurs, the reason Mars is red and lifeless, and even the chain of events that ultimately led to the rise of humanity. About the only achievement they didn’t credit Captain Kirk with was creating Coronation Street—that popular police drama supposedly set in the north of England. (Surely it’s only a matter of time before Reg from The Bill makes a guest appearance!)

Then came episode two, which, for this viewer at least, was a major disappointment. It was bad enough that we switched off halfway through. If Barclays’ price action on 27 July was episode one, then the move on 30 July was undoubtedly episode two, completely overturning our expectations for the near-term outlook.

On a more positive note, perhaps Barclays has ambitions to emulate the new Supergirl film. We went into the cinema expecting the worst, only to find an entertaining film that wisely refused to take itself too seriously. Its central theme was not unlike the John Wick franchise: just as you don’t mess with John Wick’s dog, you certainly don’t mess with Supergirl’s. With the grandchildren visiting, we naturally had the perfect excuse for a trip to the local cinema.

Should Barclays decide to embrace its inner superhero, a move above 521p would be expected to trigger an advance towards 528.5p. A decisive break above 528.5p—or, preferably, a daily close above that level—would open the door to our longer-term target of 584p, with a more ambitious third target sitting at 639p.

For now, however, the chart suggests Barclays is playing a game of “Will I Stay or Will I Go?” It wouldn’t take much buying pressure to break free in either direction, and the next decisive move could set the tone for the weeks ahead.

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Time Issued	Market	Price At Issue	Short Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop	Long Entry	Fast Exit	Slow Exit	Stop
6:23:09PM	BRENT	8977.1	8056	7678	6929	8776	9925	10690	11219	8787
6:28:21PM	GOLD	4042.72
6:51:45PM	FTSE	10871.4
11:13:39PM	STOX50	6365.8
11:15:33PM	GERMANY	25825	25553	25456	25322	25715	25900	26033	26193	25771
11:17:35PM	US500	7518.5								7491
11:19:44PM	DOW	52658.3								52534
11:21:48PM	NASDAQ	28440.8								28384
11:24:26PM	JAPAN	63668								63300

 

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:GENL Genel. Close Mid-Price: 50.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 51 Day Low: 48.2

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1576 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1604.4 Day Low: 1566.4

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 114.7 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 117.6 Day Low: 113.85

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 705.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 722.4 Day Low: 688.2

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LSE:RR. Rolls Royce. Close Mid-Price: 1467.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1520.2 Day Low: 1445.6

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LSE:SAGA SAGA Plc. Close Mid-Price: 672 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 695 Day Low: 647

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LSE:SBRY Sainsbury. Close Mid-Price: 359.4 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 379.5 Day Low: 357.5

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2188 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2253 Day Low: 2177

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Click Epic to jump to share:LSE:AAL Anglo American** **LSE:AML Aston Martin** **LSE:ASC Asos** **LSE:AVCT Avacta** **LSE:AZN Astrazeneca** **LSE:BARC Barclays** **LSE:BBY BALFOUR BEATTY** **LSE:BLOE Block Energy PLC** **LSE:BME B & M** **LSE:BP. BP PLC** **LSE:BT.A British Telecom** **LSE:CAR Carclo** **LSE:CNA Centrica** **LSE:CPI Capita** **LSE:DGE Diageo** **LSE:ECO ECO (Atlantic) O & G** **LSE:EMG MAN** **LSE:EXPN Experian** **LSE:EZJ EasyJet** **LSE:FGP Firstgroup** **LSE:FOXT Foxtons** **LSE:FRES Fresnillo** **LSE:GKP Gulf Keystone** **LSE:GLEN Glencore Xstra** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HIK Hikma** **LSE:IAG British Airways** **LSE:IGG IG Group** **LSE:IPF International Personal Finance** **LSE:IQE IQE** **LSE:ITM ITM Power** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:ITV ITV** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:MRO Melrose** **LSE:NG. National Glib** **LSE:OCDO Ocado Plc** **LSE:ONT Oxford Nanopore Tech** **LSE:OXIG Oxford Instruments** **LSE:PHP Primary Health** **LSE:PMG Parkmead** **LSE:QED Quadrise** **LSE:RKH Rockhopper** **LSE:SCLP Scancell** **LSE:SDY Speedyhire** **LSE:SFOR S4 Capital** **LSE:SMT Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust** **LSE:SPX Spirax** **LSE:SRP Serco** **LSE:STAR Star Energy** **LSE:TERN Tern Plc** **LSE:TLW Tullow** **LSE:TRN The Trainline** **LSE:TSCO Tesco** **LSE:TW. Taylor Wimpey** **LSE:VOD Vodafone** **LSE:ZOO Zoo Digital** **

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#FTSE #GOLD Our “higher highs” rule can sometimes seem a little confusing. The FTSE is currently being celebrated across the financial media after setting a new intraday all-time high of 10,979.80 points. It sounds impressive, eclipsing February’s previous intraday peak of 10,934 points. Should we be overflowing with optimism?

Actually no, we’re not willing to abandon caution.

This is due to our favourite rule of thumb, the closing price matters far more than the intraday high. Thus, on February 27th, the FTSE closed the session at 10,910 points. And on Wednesday this week, it closed at 10,908 points, with Thursday 30th July closing the day at 10,897 points. This creates a seriously confusing scenario, where the day when an All Time High made itself known, it was also the same day where the FTSE recorded another “lower low” in its history of closing prices. This is – from our perspective – the Gold Standard of chart signals. The FTSE desperately needed to close above 10,910 points from February, yet the highest closing price achieved in July has been 10,908 points.

We regard this as quite a big deal, an important box remaining unchecked and leaving us poised to take a negative stance on what’s coming next for the UK market. The good news is we appear to be witnessing the formation of a Glass Ceiling – or Flat Trend as we call it – one of these things where future closure above the ceiling (10,910 points) shall almost certainly bring strong upward index movements. Until such an event, our inclination is to regard the All Time High as a fake feint by the market, perhaps designed to make traders abandon short positions in despair!

From a near term perspective, we shall be fascinated if the FTSE manages below 10,865 points as this risks triggering reversals to an initial 10,830 points with our secondary, if broken, at a less comfortable 10,748 points. If triggered, the tightest stop loss level works out at 10,915 points. While this secondary target of 10,748 would ideally be one of these strange “backtests”, when the index chooses to challenge the point at which the breakout above Blue occurred. Should this be the case, it will indeed be reasonable to anticipate a bounce from the 10,748 level. A major issue does exist at such a point, due to movement below 10,748 risking a drop of a further 180 points, taking the FTSE below Blue and utterly fouling optimism for the future.

The above negative scenario also gives “the market” the opportunity to park the FTSE for August, giving a “safe” trading range below 10,750 and the 11,000 point level. This would make sense, creating a nursery while the grown ups all head to Butlins for a month.

The Bullish Alternative

Naturally, there’s a positive scenario as well.

A move above 10,980 points should trigger an initial target around 11,089 points. If that level is overcome, our secondary objective becomes 11,166 points. Beyond that, we’d expect the longer-term influence of 11,438 to begin asserting itself.

Have a good weekend.

We’re now in that unfortunate part of the year when Formula 1 disappears for its summer break. Around here in Argyll, the main spectator sport becomes avoiding tourists negotiating the single-track roads. On the bright side, the foreign number plates are noticeably fewer this year, with only the occasional Irish registration making an appearance. Whether that’s good news probably depends on how much time you’ve spent behind a hesitant caravan on a Highland passing place.

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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
11:37:08PM	BRENT
10:55:21PM	GOLD	4092.82	4028	3993	3953	4052	4120	4133	4148	4098
10:59:30PM	FTSE	10917.1	10791	10710	10620	10850	10980	11011	11043	10913	‘cess
11:03:04PM	STOX50
11:05:19PM	GERMANY
11:07:06PM	US500
11:09:28PM	DOW
11:12:38PM	NASDAQ
11:15:18PM	JAPAN

 

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:CNA Centrica** **LSE:GRG Greggs** **LSE:HSBA HSBC** **LSE:ITRK Intertek** **LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.** **LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer** **LSE:NWG Natwest** **LSE:STAN Standard Chartered** **

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LSE:CNA Centrica. Close Mid-Price: 152.6 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 156.95 Day Low: 152.55

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LSE:GRG Greggs. Close Mid-Price: 2032 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2046 Day Low: 1961

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LSE:HSBA HSBC. Close Mid-Price: 1587 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 1595.6 Day Low: 1548

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LSE:ITRK Intertek. Close Mid-Price: 5835 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 5850 Day Low: 5830

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LSE:LLOY Lloyds Grp.. Close Mid-Price: 115.65 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 116.15 Day Low: 107.65

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LSE:MKS Marks and Spencer. Close Mid-Price: 409.5 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 411 Day Low: 401.1

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LSE:NWG Natwest. Close Mid-Price: 683.8 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 691.6 Day Low: 656.8

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LSE:STAN Standard Chartered. Close Mid-Price: 2216 Percentage Change: + 0.00% Day High: 2239 Day Low: 2139

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