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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC | 10,300.0 | 2.6% |
| Smith (Ds) PLC | 309.6 | 2.4% |
| Entain PLC | 938.6 | 2.0% |
| Anglo American PLC | 1,824.0 | 1.6% |
| Glencore PLC | 460.9 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| St. James’s Place PLC | 677.6 | -4.7% |
| Auto Trader Group PLC | 697.2 | -4.6% |
| Hargreaves Lansdown PLC | 720.6 | -3.7% |
| Smith & Nephew PLC | 1,044.5 | -3.5% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 290.1 | -3.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,576 | -1.0% | 3.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 37,305 | 0.2% | 13.3% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,751 | 0.0% | 20.6% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 32,759 | -0.6% | 19.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,426 | -0.2% | 3.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 72.11 | 0.95% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 77.22 | 0.88% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,024 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 388 | -0.3% |
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The UK 100 called to open -10 points at 7,566. The UK 100 is expected to make a cautious start today and open marginally lower, In Asia this morning, the Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo closed down 0.6%. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.5%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 1.1%. On Friday, US markets ended mostly in the green. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%, the S&P 500 ended flat, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.4%. In focus, will be The Bank of Japan’s two-day monetary policy meeting and will announce its decision on Tuesday.
CRH signs deal for a potential acquisition of Australia’s Adbri with Barro.
Croda International CFO Louisa Burdett will leave for CFO role at Spirax-Sarco.
GSK says Phase 3 Ruby trial finds Jemperli plus Zejula improves progression-free survival.
Jefferies Downgrades Centrica to Hold from Buy (5 Buys / 5 Holds / 1 Sell)
Jefferies Upgrades Entain to Buy from Hold (12 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Downgrades Fresnillo to Underweight from Equal-weight (1 Buy / 10 Holds / 0 Sells)
UBS Downgrades Barratt Developments to Neutral from Buy (7 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
UBS Downgrades Berkeley Group Holdings to Neutral from Buy (5 Buys / 5 Holds / 2 Sells)
UBS Upgrades Taylor Wimpey to Buy from Neutral (8 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 21st December 2023:
British American Tobacco
Halma
United Utilities Group
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 21st December 2023:
Britvic
JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust
IntegraFin Holdings
Mercantile Investment Trust
Law Debenture Corporation
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