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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Pearson PLC | 834.6 | 2.1% |
| Convatec Group PLC | 205.2 | 1.1% |
| Tesco PLC | 249.4 | 0.7% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 545.8 | 0.5% |
| Bae Systems PLC | 912.0 | 0.3% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Ocado Group PLC | 575.2 | -6.5% |
| Prudential PLC | 1,065.5 | -3.7% |
| Severn Trent PLC | 2,466.0 | -2.9% |
| M&G PLC | 188.3 | -2.7% |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,269.0 | -2.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,448 | -1.0% | 6.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,332 | -0.3% | 10.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,922 | -0.7% | 28.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 33,339 | -0.3% | 26.2% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,253 | -0.4% | 9.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 71.31 | 2.18% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 76.14 | -0.14% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,923 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 377 | -0.8% |
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The UK 100 called to open -35 points at 7407. The UK 100 looks set to open lower today, extending yesterday’s falls after the Federal Reserve minutes signalled further interest rate rises were on the way. US markets closed lower with the Dow down 0.4%, while, the S&P and Nasdaq closed 0.2% lower. The downbeat mood spread to Asia where markets also eased. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.7%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 3.0%. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo was down 1.7%.
ABRDN notes subdued outlook in 2023 re customer growth due to market conditions.
Currys reported a 38% fall in FY profit, hurt by weak performance of its Nordics business and said it would not pay a final dividend.
Jet2 posted higher annual profit, in line with forecasts and said they were confident for the current peak summer season ahead. They reported a pretax profit of £371m v £388.8m loss YoY and have declared a FY23 final dividend per share of 8p.
Just Group appoints EY partner Mark Godson as CFO, effective from Jan 1st 2024.
Man Groupare to buy Varagon Capital for $183m, funded from internal resources.
JP Morgan Upgrades Mondi to Overweight from Neutral (4 Buys / 4 Holds / 0 Sells)
JP Morgan Upgrades Smurfit Kappa to Overweight from Neutral (4 Buys / 2 Holds / 0 Sells)
RBC Upgrades Smiths to Sector Perform from Underperform (4 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
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