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“Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds) spurred a hike in trading activity this week, with customer buys accounting for more than two-thirds (70%) of the top ten trades.
“In addition, overall trading activity for the most popular stocks increased by 53% over the previous week.
“Lloyds represented 31% of the top ten buys as customers jumped on the opportunity to take advantage of a fall in the bank’s share price.
“It fell by 9.55% over the past seven days, to a seven month low, on the back of fears that it will announce a debt for equity swap later in the month.
“House builders made a comeback to this week’s top ten after the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) called for action to address a £300 billion mortgage funding gap.
“Taylor Wimpey reached tenth position in the top ten sells following a recent share price hike.
“The international house builder has signalled it may offload its leading US operation Taylor Morrison later in the year. This has fuelled speculation that US house builders could be heading for a round of consolidation.
“Meanwhile, competitor Barratt Developments crept into eighth place in the top ten buys as its share price began to fall. This came after news that UK homeowners were warned that the value of their properties would see only a small increase over the coming year.
“Economic data suggests a rise of just 1.5% by December 2010, followed by a further 2.2% by December 2011, despite demand outweighing supply.
“Telecoms company Vodafone dialled into sixth place in this week’s top ten sells as customers cashed in on its highest share price hike in almost a year.
“Shares rose more than 5% to 141.80p on Friday after the company raised its forecast for cash before licence and spectrum payments from between £6.0-6.5 billion to between £6.5-7.0 billion for the year to the end of March.
“Finally, insurance giant Aviva crept back into the top ten buys this week, reaching seventh place, after its share price fell following a reported 25% drop to £8.9 billion in its UK sales for 2009.
“However, the company went on to announce a recovery in sales of life assurance, pensions and general insurance products in the fourth quarter.
“It is also said to be considering bolt-on acquisitions after increasing its solvency surplus from £2.0 billion, at the end of December 2008, to £4.5 billion at the end of last year.”
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'UK Share Trading Index 2010 - Week 6', Feature by D. Jones, last update: 9-Feb-10
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