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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Johnson Matthey PLC | 1,802.0 | 10.6% |
| BP PLC | 501.0 | 2.8% |
| Rio Tinto PLC | 4,975.0 | 2.1% |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,137.5 | 1.8% |
| Barclays PLC | 149.6 | 1.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Admiral Group PLC | 2,441.0 | -2.0% |
| International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. | 159.5 | -1.5% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 219.0 | -1.5% |
| Unite Group PLC | 927.5 | -1.4% |
| Land Securities Group PLC | 594.8 | -1.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,474 | 0.5% | 4.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,785 | 0.2% | 10.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,864 | -0.5% | 26.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 32,711 | 0.3% | 18.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,278 | -0.4% | 6.6% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 85.00 | 1.64% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 88.04 | 1.39% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,938 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 387 | 1.1% |
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The UK 100 called to open +44 points at 7,504. The UK 100 looks set to make a positive start to the week on hopes that US interest rates have peaked after Fridays US jobs data hinted at a finally loosening jobs market and actions taken by Chinese authorities will support its faltering economy. Wall Street ended the week in the green, the Dow added 115.80 points, or 0.33%, to close at 34,837.71 The S&P added roughly 0.18% to finish the session at 4,515.77, while the Nasdaq closed marginally lower, giving up 0.02% to end the day at 14,031.81.
John Wood and Harbour Energy agree a $330m strategic partnership for UK North Sea operations.
Mitie Group buys JCA Engineering for £31.5m in cash.
Primary Health Properties hires Mark Davies to replace Harry Hyman as CEO, effective from April 2024.
Ryanair says their passenger numbers for August was up 11% YoY to 19m from 17m.
Wizz Air carries 6.1m passengers in Aug, up 24% YoY with a 94% load factor.
JP Morgan Downgrades British Land to Neutral from Overweight (7 Buys / 2 Holds / 4 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Downgrades Land Securities to Equal Weight from Overweight (5 Buys / 8 Holds / 2 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Upgrades Hammerson to Overweight from Equal Weight (3 Buys / 4 Holds / 3 Sells)
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Ashtead Group
DS Smith
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Asana
Zscaler
German Trade Balance s.a.
EU Sentix Investor Confidence
UK BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 7th September 2023:
Smith (DS)
Admiral Group
Prudential
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 7th September 2023:
Harbour Energy
TBC Bank Group
CLS Holdings
Derwent London
BlackRock World Mining Trust
Empiric Student Property
Serco Group
Baltic Classifieds Group
Greggs
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