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LIVE MARKETS-Opening snapshot: Irish sensation
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OPENING SNAPSHOT: IRISH SENSATION (0848 GMT)
The results of the general election in Ireland with Sinn Fein now demanding to be part of the next government is moving stocks big time in Dublin.
The top two losers on the STOXX 600 are Bank of Ireland Group and AIB Group down 5.3% and 3.9% respectively while the Irish nationalists, having secured the most votes, are celebrating what they see as ballot-box "revolution".
ISEQ is underperforming its European peers with a 1% fall while the overall market is limiting its losses to about 0.3% as uncertainties about the coronavirus uncertainties still loom.
Among individual stocks NMC Health has indeed reclaimed the spotlight among individual stocks with a bid approach that is lifting its shares up 14%.
M&A is also pushing Italy's Exor up 4% with a possible incoming offer by France's Covea for ParterRe.
For a change, here are the top ISEQ movers this morning:
(Julien Ponthus)
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ON THE RADAR: NMC HEALTH (AGAIN), INTU AND PARTNER RE (0750 GMT)
Shares in NMC Health are back again under the spotlight this morning with preliminary approaches from U.S.-based KKR & Co Inc and GK Investment Holding Group, weeks after the healthcare group came under a short-selling attack from Muddy Waters.
Talking about the latter, it has just issued a statement calling Burford Capital’s latest trading update “abysmal”.
Meanwhile, troubled UK shopping centre operator Intu Properties is in discussions with its largest shareholder to raise funds to shore up its balance sheet.
In auto woes, we have a big news report over the weekend that Daimler is planning to cut up to 15,000 jobs.
A possible big M&A move in the insurance sector with Investment group Exor in talks to sell reinsurer PartnerRe to France's Covea in a deal worth around $9 billion.
Among Q4 trading updates, German’s software company TeamViewer posted 46% growth in fourth-quarter core profit.
Bad news and another setback for Roche whose experimental drug gantenerumab failed to slow cognitive decline in people with a rare inherited form of Alzheimer's disease.
(Julien Ponthus)
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MORNING CALL: PRUDENCE PREVAILS (0625 GMT)
European stock markets are expected to open just slightly in the red with the looming uncertainties regarding the impact of the coronavirus keeping investors on their toes.
Asian markets pared some losses as workers began trickling back to offices and factories around China but the overall sentiment remained jittery.
Financial spreadbetters expect London's FTSE to open 10 points down, Frankfurt's DAX down 10 points too and Paris' CAC to lose 7 points.
EURO STOXX 50 futures are currently trading down 0.13%.
(Julien Ponthus)
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(Reporting by Danilo Masoni, Joice Alves, Julien Ponthus and Thyagaraju Adinarayan)
