{"id":789778,"date":"2026-02-26T07:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789778\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:29:18","slug":"london-stocks-to-open-higher-thanks-to-halo-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789778\/","title":{"rendered":"London stocks to open higher thanks to &#8216;HALO&#8217; trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/31fe6dc626573e8c816a29b212843e76.jpeg\" alt=\"FTSE 100 Live: London stocks to open higher thanks to 'HALO' trade\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> FTSE 100 Live: London stocks to open higher thanks to &#8216;HALO&#8217; trade Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock         <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The FTSE 100 is projected to extend its gains further into uncharted territory on Thursday as analysts coined a new acronym for the stock market\u00a0rotation: HALO \u2013 Heavy Assets, Low Obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">On the futures market, London&#8217;s blue-chip benchmark has been called 17 points higher, a day after it added a hefty 125.8 points to finish at a record closing high of 10,806.4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">US stocks also enjoyed a good session, led by a rebounding tech sector, which saw the Nasdaq gain 1.3%, the S&amp;P 500 add 0.87% and the\u00a0Dow Jones climb\u00a00.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The HALO trade, explains market analyst Ipek Ozkardeskaya, &#8220;suggests that companies with large physical assets are likely to attract capital flows as they are less vulnerable to rapid technological disruption, unlike many high-growth software\/AI names.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;Investors are rotating from expensive AI and growth stocks into businesses with tangible infrastructure and long-lived assets \u2014 energy, materials, industrials, shipping, and other &#8216;real world&#8217;\u00a0enterprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">In this context, she says the FTSE 100 is &#8220;well positioned to benefit from HALO inflows, rallying from record to record, driven by energy and mining names&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">After the US close,\u00a0Nvidia delivered another blockbuster quarter but its shares are up only 0.2% in afterhours trade, with Nasdaq futures pointing 0.2% lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Salesforce also reported earnings and has slipped 4.6% in afterhours trade despite beating analyst expectations on both revenue and earnings, but with guidance just below consensus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: London stocks to open higher thanks to &#8216;HALO&#8217; trade Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,1880,118575,4884,49469,257,68700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-789778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-ftse-100","11":"tag-futures-market","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-growth-stocks","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-nasdaq-futures","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116135760153809705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}