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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Associated British Foods PLC | 2,114.0 | 5.7% |
| Airtel Africa PLC | 117.9 | 3.3% |
| Vodafone Group PLC | 77.2 | 2.8% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1,556.0 | 2.4% |
| BT Group PLC | 115.6 | 2.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | 2,754.0 | -10.2% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,456.0 | -3.5% |
| Johnson Matthey PLC | 1,706.0 | -2.4% |
| Croda International PLC | 5,032.0 | -2.1% |
| Smith (Ds) PLC | 248.4 | -2.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,529 | 0.4% | 0.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,644 | -0.1% | 7.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,714 | -0.6% | 17.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 32,776 | 1.0% | 14.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,207 | 0.2% | 2.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 89.10 | 2.07% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 92.20 | 1.72% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,914 | -0.5% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 378 | -0.8% |
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The UK 100 called to open -17 points at 7,510. The UK 100 looks set to open lower this morning after UK GDP data showed that the economy had contracted 0.5% in July, worse than the 0.2% economists had expected. On Wall Street The Nasdaq fell 1.04% to 13,773.61 in its first losing day in three. The S&P 500 dropped 0.57% to 4,461.90. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones gave up 17.73 points, or 0.05%, to close at 34,645.99.
Aviva sells 25.9% stake in Singapore Life and 2 debt instruments to Sumitomo Life for £800m.
BP CEO Bernard Looney has resigned with immediate effect after admitting he had not been fully transparent about historical relationships with colleagues. Finance chief Murray Auchincloss will act as interim CEO.
Redrow report a pretax profit for FY23 of £395m, down from £410m YoY.
Renishaw expects to report a FY adjusted pretax profit of £141m, down YoY from £163.7m.
St James’s Place appoints Mark FitzPatrick as CEO designate from Oct 1st, CEO from Dec 1st.
Unite Group enters option deal to buy new 800-bed development scheme in Glasgow.
888 Holdings appoints Sean Watkins as their new CFO from Feb 1st.
Deutsche Bank Downgrades Associated British Foods to Hold from Buy (6 Buys / 10 Holds / 0 Sells)
JP Morgan places Pearson on ‘Positive catalyst watch’ (6 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
JP Morgan places Whitbread on ‘Positive catalyst watch’ (11 Buys / 4 Holds / 0 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Upgrades Marks & Spencer to Overweight from Equal-Weight (3 Buys / 13 Holds / 0 Sells)
RBC Upgrades CVS Group to Outperform from Sector Perform (6 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 14th September 2023:
Unite Group
Intertek Group
Melrose Industries
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 14th September 2023:
Apax Global Alpha
International Public Partnerships
Bakkavor Group
Energean
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust
LXi REIT
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
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