Sector movers: Strong Burberry sales boost personal goods

Date: Tuesday 19 Jan 2010

Personal goods is the best performing sector after luxury fashion label Burberry demonstrated how people are starting to spoil themselves again saying profits for the full year to be at the top end of expectations after seeing strong sales in the last three months of 2009.

Fellow luxury fashion brand, the similarly-named Mulberry is also higher, as is the jewellery designer and manufacturer Abbeycrest which last week said trading has been strong since August, despite the high gold price.

The drinks sector is lacking fizz after global brewer SABMiller said it saw lager volumes dip slightly in the first nine months of its current year with the US in particular under pressure.

Top performing sectors so far today
Personal Goods 10,979.75 +2.91%
Food Producers & Processors 4,939.75 +1.69%
Forestry & Paper 3,981.09 +1.54%
Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 8,931.96 +1.43%
Gas, Water & Multiutilities 4,157.26 +1.07%

Bottom performing sectors so far today
Automobiles & Parts 2,969.34 -2.16%
Beverages 8,074.96 -1.14%
Industrial Metals 4,988.96 -0.90%
Equity Investment Instruments 5,157.89 -0.80%
Banks 4,864.37 -0.75%

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