This article will assess the period for listed contractors, equipment manufacturers and material producers from week week 44 to week 49 of 2021 (29 October to 3 December, 2021). While two of the CE indexes have made positive moves over the review period -Equipment nudging up by 0.4% and Materials up 3.2% - the Contractors list has taken a hit, with a drop of -6.5%. While this might not look too promising, the average across the three indexes is only negative by 0.1%, which is ahead of all other major financial indexes (eg Dow = -3.6%, FTSE 100 = -1.3%, Nikkei 225 = -3.0%). This perhaps says something positive about construction, in the face of yet another variant of Covid looking to dampen our festive spirit.
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