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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Fresnillo PLC | 578.0 | 4.0% |
| St. James’s Place PLC | 441.0 | 3.0% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 2,269.0 | 2.4% |
| Croda International PLC | 4,700.0 | 2.2% |
| Halma PLC | 2,294.0 | 2.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Bae Systems PLC | 1,277.0 | -4.5% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 412.2 | -3.9% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 672.8 | -3.8% |
| Melrose Industries PLC | 649.4 | -3.2% |
| Beazley PLC | 654.5 | -3.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,935 | -0.1% | 2.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 38,884 | 0.0% | 16.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 18,077 | -1.3% | 15.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 39,773 | 1.1% | 43.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,824 | 0.5% | 8.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 85.23 | -1.39% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 89.58 | -0.89% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,353 | 0.6% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 429 | 0.2% |
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The UK 100 called to open +48 points at 7,980. UK 100 is set to open higher on Wednesday, ahead of the important inflation reading (CPI) from the US this afternoon at 1:30pm. US inflation is expected to show that the rate of YoY consumer price growth picked up to 3.4% last month, from 3.2% in February. Wall Street ended mixed as the Dow closed down slightly, S&P +0.1% and Nasdaq +0.3%. In Asia the Nikkei closed -0.3%, Shanghai -0.6% and Hong Kong +2%.
Capita extends their contract with European Telecoms provider for two years, worth over £95m.
Direct Line Insurance Group appoints Jane Poole as their new CFO, replacing Neil Manser.
Johnson Matthey and BP technology have been chosen for Fischer Tropsch SAF production plant worth $4bn.
Tesco have forecast a further increase in profit in their new financial year as they reported an 11% rise for 2023/24 that reflected market share gains. They have forecast an adjusted retail operating profit of “at least” £2.8bn for its 2024/25 year. They have made £2.76bn in the year to Feb 24th 2024, slightly ahead of guidance of £2.75bn and up from £2.49bn made in the previous year.
Vistry Group are to deliver 1,000 homes in England following government agreement.
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Fed’s Goolsbee speech
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 11th April 2024:
Phoenix Group Holdings
Aviva
Lloyds Banking Group
Smurfit Kappa Group
Reckitt Benckiser Group
Howden Joinery Group
Barratt Developments
F&C Investment Trust
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 11th April 2024:
TP ICAP Group
ITV
Harbour Energy
International Public Partnerships
Man Group
Grafton Group
Supermarket Income REIT
Savills
Mercantile Investment Trust
Just Group
Hunting
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
Softcat
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