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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rio Tinto PLC | 4,650.5 | 2.0% |
| Admiral Group PLC | 2,391.0 | 1.4% |
| Glencore PLC | 424.4 | 1.2% |
| Smith & Nephew PLC | 1,085.2 | 1.1% |
| Lloyds Banking Group PLC | 42.5 | 1.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Bae Systems PLC | 956.4 | -4.6% |
| Ocado Group PLC | 775.8 | -4.5% |
| Abrdn PLC | 166.6 | -4.2% |
| Entain PLC | 1,186.5 | -3.8% |
| Melrose Industries PLC | 501.6 | -3.6% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,322 | -0.5% | -2.4% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,789 | 0.1% | 2.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,708 | -0.5% | 15.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 31,626 | -0.4% | 9.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,146 | -0.7% | 0.3% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 80.86 | 1.86% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 84.66 | 1.45% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,895 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 374 | 1.1% |
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The UK 100 called to open -33 points at 7,274. UK 100 is set to open lower on Friday as global equities continue to suffer amid concerns over interest rates and China’s economy as the UK 100 index is down 4% over the last 5 days. UK retail sales today came in worse than expected at -1.2% m/m when -0.6% was expected. Wall Street ended in the red with the Dow closing -0.8%, S&P -0.8% and Nasdaq -1.2%. In Asia on Friday Tokyo closed -0.7%, Shanghai -0.5% and Hong Kong -1.7%.
AstraZeneca’s Forxiga drug has been approved in China to reduce risk of cardiovascular death in adults.
Great Portland Estates acquires King Sloane Properties for £70m.
Kingspan reported a H1 pretax profit of 392.8m euros up from 387.6m euros YoY.
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Deere & Co
The Estee Lauder Companies
Xpeng
Palo Alto Networks
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Zoom Video Communications
UK Retail Sales
EU Core Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 24th August 2023:
Aviva
Legal & General Group
St. James’s Place
Mondi
Diageo
Land Securities Group
Auto Trader Group
Haleon
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 24th August 2023:
Plus500
Hammerson
OSB Group
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst
Ibstock
HICL Infrastructure
Drax Group
RHI Magnesita N.V.
Shaftesbury Capital
Temple Bar Investment Trust
Just Group
Witan Investment Trust
Personal Assets Trust
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