Proactive analyst Richard Jeans presents his weekly market highlights

Proactive analyst Richard Jeans presents his weekly analysis as global markets finish up broadly positive despite US retail sales missing expectations.

His pick of the week is (NSE:NCC) which has jumped by more than 14{f08ff3a0ad7db12f5b424ba38f473ff67b97b420df338baa81683bbacd458fca} after it struck a takeover deal in the United States. The cybersecurity firm is spending £156mln on the intellectual property management division of , an American document storage group.

Jeans goes through the agenda for the week ahead with Cerillion on Monday and  on Tuesday. In the US, a few quarterly period ends with Analog Devices, Synopsys, Keysight, Applied Materials, Palo Alto Networks).