Industrial and precious metal miners, as well as retailer are the best performing stocks. BHP Group is up by almost 1% as it is rumored to be unveiling details about the future of its petroleum business while unveiling its results next week
Babcock soared 6.8% after it agreed to sell Frazer-Nash, its consultancy unit, for £293 million.
Yesterday, Just Group dropped 7.4% after posting a drop in revenues and a loss for H1.
To finish today’s recap, an interesting chart from Berenberg comparing footfall in the UK and the EU..
The investment bank notes that “while UK footfall data had initially pointed to some hesitancy amid the spike in new infections in early June, the recent data point to a renewed recovery – see chart. In the Eurozone, footfall has surged to nearly 10% above its usual level”.
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