MARKET REPORT: BT 乱打するd as 競争相手s Sky and Virgin マスコミ の近くに in on 取引，協定 to team up for 十分な-fibre broadband roll-out

By Calum Muirhead For The Daily Mail

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BT 宙返り／暴落するd to the 底（に届く） of the FTSE 100 fallers 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） まっただ中に 報告（する）／憶測s it could be 直面するing a challenge to its dominance of the British broadband market.

Sky, owned by US 巨人 Comcast, is の近くにing in on a 取引，協定 to 投資する in the 十分な-fibre broadband roll-out of Virgin マスコミ O2 (VMO2), によれば the Sunday Telegraph.

VMO2, a 共同の 投機・賭ける between telecom heavyweights Telefonica and Liberty 全世界の formed in June, is also in discussions with Talk Talk and Vodafone about 可能性のある 接近.

Telecoms could be 直面するing a challenge to its dominance of the British broadband market as?Sky 報道によれば の近くにs in on a 取引，協定 to 投資する in the 十分な-fibre broadband roll-out of Virgin マスコミ O2?

The 計画（する）s 含む VMO2 connecting another 7m homes to its broadband 網状組織, a move that will 拡大する its ニュース報道 to 80 per cent of the UK and 増加する 競争 for BT’s 網状組織, Openreach.

分析家s at UBS said a tie-up between VMO2 and Sky could cost BT over £600million in lost 歳入s, 公式文書，認めるing that Sky is one of Openreach’s biggest 顧客s spending around £760million 毎年 on 料金s.

The bank also said most of this 歳入 could be lost by BT as Sky transferred の上に the VMO2 網状組織, the 拡大 of which will also eat into Openreach’s market 株.

在庫／株 Watch -?Abingdon Health?

Diagnostics 会社／堅い Abingdon Health was の中で the biggest risers on AIM after 調印 a 取引，協定 to roll out a 早い Covid-19 saliva 実験（する） across the UK.

The Know Now 実験（する）, which has been developed by UK health 科学（工学）技術 company Vatic Health, is more 正確な than PCR and lateral flow 実験（する）s and does not 要求する a swab to be stuck up the nose.

Under the 供給（する） 取引，協定, York-based Abingdon, which was formed in 2008, and Oxford-headquartered Vatic Health are 目的（とする）ing to produce 100m 実験（する）s each year.

Abingdon 株 ロケット／急騰するd 38.8 per cent, or 16.1p, to 57.6p on the 支援する of the news.??

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However, 分析家s at Jefferies said that for Sky, 投資するing in the VMO2 投機・賭ける would be ‘very risky’ and the company would give up an 適切な時期 to てこ入れ／借入資本 its 現在の を取り引きする Openreach.

The 仲買人 also flagged that the timeframe and cost of the VMO2 broadband 拡大 would be ‘高度に uncertain’.

BT’s 投資家s, however, were unnerved by the possible challenge and the 会社／堅い’s 株 sank 4.7 per cent, or 7.4p, to 151.45p. Vodafone, 一方／合間, was up 1.4 per cent, or 1.58p, at 113.78p.

The FTSE 100 barely 転換d, climbing just 0.2 per cent, or 16.06 points, to 7011.01, while the FTSE 250 fell 1.4 per cent, or 320.85 points to 22,654.92.

投資家s were spooked by the 中断 of 株 in 負債-laden Chinese 所有物／資産／財産 巨大（な） Evergrande in Hong Kong, which once again 誘発するd 恐れるs that it is on the brink of 崩壊（する）.?

There is 憶測 that the 危機-攻撃する，衝突する 商売／仕事 will sell its profitable 所有物／資産／財産 管理／経営 arm in a 企て，努力，提案 to 緩和する 圧力 on its cash reserves.

However, the blue-半導体素子 索引 got some 解除する from the oil majors, with 爆撃する rising 1.5 per cent, or 25.2p, to 1670.8p and BP up 1.9 per cent, or 6.5p, to 344.45p as 天然のまま prices climbed. Brent 天然のまま rose to more than $71 a バーレル／樽.

The 決起大会／結集させる （機の）カム as members of the Opec cartel of oil-producing countries met to discuss a rise in 生産／産物 as the 地位，任命する-pandemic 回復 led to red-hot 需要・要求する.

一方／合間, ecommerce 巨大（な） The Hut Group (THG) fell 3.3 per cent, or 15.2p, to 440p after some of its major 支援者s はっきりと 削減（する） 支援する their 火刑／賭けるs in the 会社／堅い まっただ中に 恐れるs of a break-up.

Goldman Sachs has 削除するd its 持つ／拘留するing in 最近の days, selling around £180million in 在庫／株, によれば the Mail on Sunday.

THG’s 株 dropped below their 500p IPO price for the first time last Friday に引き続いて a 一連の 告示s that appeared to 示す that the group is 長，率いるing for 分離.

?These 含む a £1.2billion 選択 for Japanese 複合的な／複合企業体 Softbank to acquire a fifth of its THG Ingenuity 商売／仕事 同様に as 計画（する）s to spin off its beauty segment.

Sports Direct owner Frasers Group 宙返り／暴落するd 6.9 per cent, or 46p, to 620p as it was 攻撃する，衝突する by a 二塁打 downgrade by 分析家s at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The bank knocked the 在庫／株 to ‘underperform’ from ‘buy’.

Catering 会社／堅い Compass also slipped 2.7 per cent, or 42.5p, to 1516p after the surprise 出発 of its 長，指導者 財政上の officer Karen Witts, who will step 負かす／撃墜する at the end of this month after only two and a half years in the 役割.

She will be 取って代わるd by 商業の director and company 退役軍人 Palmer Brown, who served as 暫定的な 長，指導者 財政上の officer in 2018 and 2019.

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