STOCKS! Europe is popping - but Capita is getting crushed
Europe's major indices popped over 1% at the open on Thursday, but have since pulled back slightly.
Mike van Dulken, head of research at Accendo Markets, says in an emailed statement: "The positive open comes almost entirely courtesy of last night's surprise OPEC production cut agreement. The news sent oil prices sharply higher and has helped Energy names overnight while buoying sentiment in the general commodity space."
OPEC - the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries - overnight agreed to cap oil production at a range of 32.5-33.0 million barrels per day, reversing the two-year policy of lead member Saudi Arabia of pumping out as much oil as it could.
The news sent oil prices jumping as much as 6% and has had a knock-on effect for stock markets. Here's how the FTSE 100 looks at around 12.40 p.m. BST (7.40 a.m. ET):
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Here's how Europe's other major stock markets look at around 12.40 a.m. BST (7.40 a.m. ET):
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"While the European indices continued to benefit from the reports of an OPEC output deal, Brent Crude itself seemed a bit more sceptical.
"The black stuff has spent the morning teasing a half a percent decline, suggesting that the joy the commodity felt last night doesn't quite hold up in the cold light of day. That's not only because OPEC is a notoriously fickle and unreliable institution - in other words, it's not the first time that the market has heard promises of some kind of cap - but that the new daily output range is more like a freeze than an actual cut in production."
Aside from energy and commodity stocks rising on Thursday morning, Deutsche Bank is a notable climber. The German lender is enjoying its second day of positive gains, after a torrid week that saw shares fall to multi-decade lows amid talks of a government bailout.
Whether the rally is a "dead cat bounce" - where shares rise simply because they've fallen so low that traders think there must be some value there - or the troubled lender has turned a corner remains to be seen.
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Capita said in a trading update on Thursday morning that profits for the year are set to be between £535 million and £555 million, down from previous expectations of £613 million. The company blames "continued delays in decision making" among clients, likely due to Brexit.
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