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Market overview: FTSE 100 finishes down as UK trade deficit grows
08-08-2014 16:30
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1630: Close The FTSE 100 ended down 30.01 to 6567.36 as a report showed the UK trade deficit grew in June by £2,459 from £2,364 a month earlier, missing the estimate for it to narrow to £2,050. Geopolitical tensions also weighed on stocks with the US launching air strikes in Iraq to protect US personnel and Yazidi refugees against militants from the Islamic State and Russia imposing counter-sanctions against the European Union and US.
1341: US non-farm productivity increased by 2.5% in Q2, according to the Labor Department, after a revised 4.5% in Q1. This was better than the 1.6% growth expected by analysts. Unit-labour costs rose 0.6% in Q2 after an 11.8% surge in Q1 (consensus: +1%).
1200: Schroders is now at the bottom of the pile, tracking global equities lower. To take note of, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert told reporters that: "we have got into a situation where the industry has over-promised and under-delivered", Bloomberg reports.
0930: UK construction output expanded at a 1.2% month-on-month pace in June (consensus: 1%). Meanwhile, Britain's goods trade deficit worsened to -£9.4bn (consensus: -£8.9bn).
0901: Stocks have started the morning lower on the back of the worsening news-flow out of the Middle East. In particular, US President Barack Obama has authorised targeted air strikes in Iraq. To take note of as well, Israel and Hamas were unable to reach an agreement overnight to extend a truce in Gaza. Afren is leading losses on the FTSE 250 after announcing that it has suspended some of its operations in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan. Chinese exports shot ahead in July at a 14.5% year-on-year clip, according to figures out this morning. FTSE 100 down 71 to 6,527.
1341: US non-farm productivity increased by 2.5% in Q2, according to the Labor Department, after a revised 4.5% in Q1. This was better than the 1.6% growth expected by analysts. Unit-labour costs rose 0.6% in Q2 after an 11.8% surge in Q1 (consensus: +1%).
1200: Schroders is now at the bottom of the pile, tracking global equities lower. To take note of, Aberdeen Asset Management chief executive Martin Gilbert told reporters that: "we have got into a situation where the industry has over-promised and under-delivered", Bloomberg reports.
0930: UK construction output expanded at a 1.2% month-on-month pace in June (consensus: 1%). Meanwhile, Britain's goods trade deficit worsened to -£9.4bn (consensus: -£8.9bn).
0901: Stocks have started the morning lower on the back of the worsening news-flow out of the Middle East. In particular, US President Barack Obama has authorised targeted air strikes in Iraq. To take note of as well, Israel and Hamas were unable to reach an agreement overnight to extend a truce in Gaza. Afren is leading losses on the FTSE 250 after announcing that it has suspended some of its operations in the Iraqi region of Kurdistan. Chinese exports shot ahead in July at a 14.5% year-on-year clip, according to figures out this morning. FTSE 100 down 71 to 6,527.
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