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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. | 171.0 | 3.5% |
| Weir Group PLC | 1,839.6 | 2.8% |
| Centrica PLC | 137.6 | 2.5% |
| Rightmove PLC | 572.8 | 2.5% |
| Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC | 736.4 | 2.3% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Ocado Group PLC | 937.6 | -4.0% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 186.2 | -3.7% |
| Coca-Cola Hbc AG | 2,298.5 | -2.4% |
| BT Group PLC | 122.0 | -1.8% |
| Sainsbury (J) PLC | 277.7 | -1.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,711 | 0.2% | 3.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,522 | 0.2% | 8.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,469 | 0.0% | 22.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 33,172 | 1.3% | 18.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,410 | 0.1% | 6.7% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 81.13 | 0.68% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 85.34 | 0.41% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,968 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 400 | 1.8% |
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The UK 100 called to open flat point at 7,699. The UK 100 is called to open broadly flat today, this comes after, markets Stateside rallied into the close leaving the Dow, S&P and Nasdaq all higher. In Asia, China’s manufacturing sector fell into contraction in July, with the Caixin manufacturing purchasing managers’ index recording a level of 49.2 points in July down from 50.5 in June.
BP on Tuesday reported a nearly 70% year-on-year drop in second-quarter profits on the back of weaker fossil fuel prices, echoing a trend observed across the energy industry. The British energy major posted second-quarter underlying replacement cost profit, used as a proxy for net profit, of $2.6 billion. Analysts had expected BP to report second-quarter profit of $3.5 billion, according to estimates collated by Refinitiv.
DiscoverIE Group has acquired Wales-based telecom components group Silver Telecom (Silvertel) for an initial consideration of £21mln and up to a further £23mln in earn-outs
Greggs PLC has announced growing sales and pre-tax profit during the first half of the year as hopes rest on easing inflation. Sales in the six months to July jumped 16% to £844mln on a like-for-like basis, “reflecting the exceptional value that Greggs offers to customers,” the company said in a statement. Pre-tax profit rose 43% to £80mln meanwhile, though this included £16.3mln of exceptional net income thanks to the settlement of a Covid business interruption case.
HSBC this morning reported and launched a new US$2bn share buyback and revised its guidance upwards as profit in the first half of 2023 more than doubled. The bank said pre-tax profit in six months to June 30 jumped to US$21.66bn from US$8.78bn the year before including a US$1.5bn gain on acquiring the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank. Revenue increased by 50% to US$36.9bn from US$24.6bn driven by higher net interest income in all businesses due to interest rate rises. Net interest income jumped to US$18.26bn from US$13.39bn.
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UK
BP
Coats Group
Diageo
Domino’s Pizza Group
Fresnillo
Greggs
HSBC Holdings
Keller Group
Man Group
Travis Perkins
Weir Group
US
Caterpillar Inc
Merck & Co
Pfizer
Advanced Micro Devices
MicroStrategy
Starbucks Corp
Uber Technologies
Virgin Galactic
UK
BAE Systems
Direct Line Insurance Group
Endeavor Mining
Ferrexpo
Haleon
IP Group
Smurfit Kappa Group
Taylor Wimpey
US
The Kraft Heinz Co
Etsy
Lemonade
Occidental Petroleum
PayPal Holdings
Qualcomm Inc
Shopify
Unity Software
Chinese Caixin Manufacturing PMI
German Trade Balance s.a.
German HCOB Manufacturing PMI
German Unemployment Change
EU Unemployment Rate
US ISM Manufacturing PMI
JOLTS Job Openings
BoJ Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 3rd August 2023:
BT Group
Unilever
Lloyds Banking Group
Reckitt Benckiser Group
RELX
Rentokil Initial
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 3rd August 2023:
Oxford Instruments
Schroder Oriental Income Fund
Moneysupermarket.com Group
Games Workshop Group
Tyman
Rathbones Group
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
Jupiter Fund Management
Inchcape
Vesuvius
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