The FTSE 100 registered a new closing maximum on Tuesday, since the earnings in the retailers compensate heavy falls in the defense stocks that slid as the hopes of progress in the peace conversations between Ukraine and Russia grew.
The FTSE 100 index closed 31.48 points, 0.3%, at 9,157.74. The FTSE 250 ended with 83.69 points, 0.4%, at 21,833.26, while the AIM All-Share finished 2.06 points higher, 0.3%, at 763.22.
In Europe, CAC 40 in Paris increased 1.3%, while Dax 40 in Frankfurt closed 0.5%.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average increased 0.2%, the S&P 500 was 0.3%lower and the Nasdaq compound decreased 1.0%.
President Donald Trump said that American air support and European land troops could be part of the security guarantees for Ukraine, warning of a “difficult” situation if conversations between Moscow and kyiv fail.
“When it comes to security, they are willing to put people on the ground,” he told Fox News, referring to European allies whom he met in the White House on Monday.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that security guarantees were a “key issue, a starting point to end the war.”
Trump said that after his conversations on Monday with European leaders, he is pressing to organize a bilateral summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mr. Zelensky, followed by another where he will join.
In London, defense actions fell sharply with Babcock International by 7.4%, Bae Systems decreased 3.6%and Rolls-Royce dropped 2.1%.
Helping to compensate for this were earnings in retailers despite the news of a delay to official sales data.
The National Statistics Office said it was delaying the release of retail sales figures from the United Kingdom, which would be published on Friday, so it can carry out a greater work of “quality guarantee” in the data.
The United Kingdom statistics agency said that retail sales figures will now be published on September 5, two weeks after planned. An Ons spokesman told the Financial Times that more information would be provided when complete data was published.
It is the last setback for the ONS that had to correct the APRIL consumer price index after finding an error derived from a calculation of special taxes for vehicles.
More encouraging, food retailers, Tesco and Sainsbury, increased 1.5% and 1.1% respectively, since the figures of the WorldPanel market researcher showed that the sales of groceries in the United Kingdom increased 4.0% year -on -year in 4 weeks to 10 August.
The Citi corridor said that Tesco and Sainsbury again exceeded the market with sales of 7.1% and 4.8%. Marks & Spencer rose 3.5%, since the survey showed that sales increased 6.1%, Citi said.
JD Sports increased 6.8%, backed by a positive statement of applied nutrition, which increased by 12%.
JD Sports has a participation of just under 10% in the applied nutrition that appears in London last year.
On Tuesday, the sports nutrition brand based in Liverpool, Application Nutrition, said the income will be ahead of the city's expectations for the financial year that ended and predicted greater growth ahead.
Applied nutrition awaits income for the financial year that ends on July 31, £ 107 million, 24% of £ 86 million in 2024 financial, and before market expectations for £ 100 million.
In other places, Anglo American said that he intends to seek damage after the “unfair termination” of Peabody Energy Corp of his attempt to acquire Anglo American steel carbon assets in Australia.
Peagody, price price of New York, announced that it has dropped its plan to buy an Anglo American steel portfolio almost five months after an “ignition event” at the Moranbah North Mine on March 31.
Anglo American temporarily suspended mining operations in Moranbah North after the fire.
The Executive Director of Anglo American, Duncan Wanblad, said that the fire does not constitute an “adverse material change”, under the final agreements with Peabody.
Anglo American shares closed 1.6%.
Libra decreased to US $ 1,3503 on Tuesday afternoon in London, compared to $ 1,3517 at the closing of shares on Monday. The euro exceeded $ 1,1669, higher against $ 1,1667. Against Yen, the dollar was quoted higher than 147.75 yen compared to 146.96 yen.
The 10 -year Treasury performance. UU. It was 4.31%, it was reduced from 4.35%. The treasure yield of 30 years from the United States was 4.91%, cut of 4.95%.
In FTSE 250, Metro Bank increased by 6.2% as RBC capital markets were updated to “overcome”, citing an assessment discount to their peers.
But the International Working Group slid 13% when it warned of the adjusted annual profits would be towards the end of the orientation.
The provider of the hybrid work space based in the ZUG, Switzerland, expects adjusted profits before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization to the low range of the 525 million US dollars (£ 389 million) to 565 million dollars (£ 418 million), due to a greater investment in the administered growth and the franchise segments.
In the middle of the year, IWG said he invested 15 million US dollars (£ 11 thousand) in the association sales team in his division administered and franchisees to accelerate the development of his pipe. He said that 413 new locations were signed in the first half of the year, 6.7% more than 387 a year ago.
Executive President Mark Dixon said IWG had opened more locations in the last six months than throughout the first decade of its existence.
A barrel of Brent changed little to 66.08 US dollars on Tuesday afternoon of $ 66.07 on Monday. Gold decreased to 3,325.33 dollars (£ 2,464.5) an ounce against $ 3,334.83 (£ 2.471.54).
The greatest elevators in the FTSE 100 were: JD Sports, above 6p to 93.8p; Marks & Spencer, above 12p to 358.6p; Diageo, above 66p to 2,101p; Caha, above 34.5PA 1.130.5p; and IMI rises 66p to 2,316p.
The greatest ftse 100 faults were: Babcock International, below 78p to 969p; Fresnillo, below 71p to 1,625p; BAE systems, below 69.5PA 1,721p; Rolls-Royce, below 22.5PA 1,059.5p; and strive for mining, below 50p to 2,436p.
The local corporate calendar on Wednesday has half -year results of Costain Group, Ithaca Energy and Osb Bank.
The Global Economic Calendar on Wednesday has interest rates decisions in China and Sweden, inflation figures from the United Kingdom and the minutes of the Julio Fomc meeting.
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