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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 525.0 | 5.9% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 588.5 | 4.5% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,858.0 | 4.5% |
| Ashtead Group PLC | 5,780.0 | 4.3% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 156.5 | 4.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| SSE PLC | 1942.0 | -2.7% |
| National Grid PLC | 1023.0 | -2.6% |
| Vodafone Group PLC | 76.2 | -2.5% |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | 4576.0 | -2.0% |
| GSK PLC | 1574.5 | -1.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,329 | 0.9% | 8.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 42,025 | 1.3% | 21.8% |
| DAX INDEX | 19,002 | 1.6% | 21.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 37,155 | 2.1% | 12.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,192 | 0.6% | 14.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 71.95 | 1.47% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 74.93 | 1.74% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,587 | 1.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 435 | 1.1% |
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The UK 100 called to open -48 points at 8,280. The UK 100 looks set to open lower this morning, this comes after GFK Consumer confidence data out this morning showed a fall in the run-up to next month’s Budget.
Retail Sales data however showed a strong August after figures published by the Office for National Statistics today showed sales volumes rose by a forecast beating 1%.The performance, which followed a rise of 0.7% in July, left the year-on-year figure up by 2.5%. That’s much bigger than the City consensus of 1.4%.
On Wall Street yesterday stocks rallied as jobs data out provided validation and hope for a soft landing for the worlds largest economy, after Fed officials made the decision to cut interest rates by half a percent on Wednesday, The Dow Jones advanced 522.09 points, or 1.26%, ending at 42,025.19, marking its first close above the 42,000 level. The S&P rose 1.7% to close at 5,713.64, topping 5,700 for the first time. The Nasdaq surged 2.51% to end at 18,013.98.
Doc Martens biggest shareholder, Ingregrsy are selling 70 million shares via placing at 57.85p
Investec this morning delivered results, they said revenue momentum had continued, adjusted operating profit for the year to be between £520m-£550m and they continue to trade in-line with Full Year 25 guidance.
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PBoC Interest Rate Decision
BoJ Interest Rate Decision
BoJ Monetary Policy Statement
German Producer Price Index
BoJ Press Conference
UK Retail Sales
BoE’s Mann speech
EU Consumer Confidence
Fed’s Harker speech
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 26th September 2024:
British American Tobacco
Rightmove
Barratt Developments
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 26th September 2024:
Breedon Group
Bank of Georgia Group
Alfa Financial Software Holdings
Computacenter
HgCapital Trust
JTC
Petershill Partners
Mercantile Investment Trust
Ruffer Investment Company
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