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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 285.8 | 3.3% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 165.0 | 2.9% |
| Bt Group PLC | 126.3 | 2.1% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 600.2 | 1.9% |
| Wpp PLC | 721.4 | 1.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,223.0 | -3.8% |
| Glencore PLC | 443.4 | -3.1% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,456.5 | -2.6% |
| Burberry Group PLC | 1,462.0 | -2.4% |
| Rio Tinto PLC | 5,468.0 | -2.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,513 | -0.2% | -0.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 36,138 | -0.3% | 5.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,405 | 0.0% | 12.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 33,231 | -0.6% | 19.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,125 | 0.7% | -2.7% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 73.43 | -0.86% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 78.35 | -0.67% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,026 | -2.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 384 | -2.4% |
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The UK 100 called to open -45 points at 7,467. The UK 100 is expected to open lower on Tuesday after falls in US and Asian markets. In Asia this morning, the Nikkei 225 was down 1.3% in late trade in Tokyo, while in China, the Shanghai Composite was 0.9% lower, and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong was 1.7% lower. On Wall Street yesterday The Dow Jones shed 41.06 points, or 0.11%, to close at 36,204.44. The S&P dropped 0.54% to 4,569.78. The Nasdaq declined 0.84% to 14,185.49 as investors sold Big Tech shares, which have led the market’s gains this year. In focus today will be, service sector PMI readings from the UK, Europe and US while the first of a number of releases on the US jobs market are due with the Jolts job vacancy report.
Ashtead Group report a H1 pretax profit of $1.25bn up from £1.19bn YoY, as they state end markets in North America remain robust with healthy demand. They have lowered their Q1 rental revenue growth to between 11-13% down from 13-16%.
Barclays: Qatar wealth fund is set to sell almost half of its shares held in Barclays, seeking to raise £517m.
Rio Tinto have approved a $77m development of the Rhodes Ridge project in Western Australia.
SSP Group report a FY23 pretax profit of £88.1m, more than triple £25.2m YoY. They expect further strong profitability recovery despite inflationary pressures.
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