Good morning from a very sunny London where the FTSE 100 has blasted through the 7,500 point ceiling ahead of a busy week of earnings and other news here in the City.
The mining giants are the biggest gainers, but Harbour Energy and the John Wood Group are both up as well on news of a new North Sea-based strategic partnership.
Shares in pharmaceutical services company Ergomed are also off to a strong start, after news broke that private equity outfit Permira has agreed to buy it for £703 million.
Elsewhere BMW chief Oliver Zipse warned upcoming bans on fossil-fuel powered cars in the EU and UK is putting automakers at risk of losing out in a price war with Chinese rivals.
Across the Atlantic where ARM Holdings is looking at listing, the chipmaker is said to be targeting a valuation of between US$50-55 billion, down from the US$64 billion tipped by owner Softbank, according to reports.
And finally with small caps, shares in ANGLE opened higher as the liquid biopsy tech firm announced a new diagnostic tool for circulating tumour cells. That’s all for this morning, have a great week