Spreadex Market Update

Activity relatively subdued



After the considerable losses seen amongst mining stocks in the past week, some investors have been looking for bargains during today’s session. The fall in the mining sector began with disappointing Chinese GDP figures and has developed further on global growth concerns. However, the best performers in the FTSE 100 index as of 13:00 BST were ENRC & Vedanta Resources.

Whilst we have seen gains across all European indices, activity has been relatively subdued with volumes on the FTSE 100 at just 40 percent of the 90-day daily average. Analysts point to worrying European earnings with 39 percent of companies which have already reported first quarter results having missed expectations.

Gold has somewhat rebounded from the recent lows of 1322.15, climbing to $1,412.33 an ounce. However, gold is still heading for its fourth weekly decline with concerns that other European governments will follow Cyprus in selling reserves weighing on the metal.

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