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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Fresnillo PLC | 639.5 | 4.0% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 434.2 | 3.9% |
| Weir Group PLC | 2,200.0 | 3.8% |
| Entain PLC | 745.8 | 3.3% |
| Airtel Africa PLC | 121.9 | 2.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Easyjet PLC | 474.9 | -3.2% |
| Burberry Group PLC | 1067.0 | -3.0% |
| Ocado Group PLC | 354.3 | -2.4% |
| Sage Group PLC | 1085.2 | -1.9% |
| United Utilities Group PLC | 1092.5 | -1.4% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,424 | 0.1% | 8.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 40,019 | 0.0% | 19.6% |
| DAX INDEX | 18,769 | 0.4% | 15.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 39,070 | 0.7% | 26.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,864 | 0.6% | 8.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 79.73 | -0.41% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 83.59 | -0.46% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,424 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 505 | 0.1% |
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The UK 100 called to open -34 points at 8,390. The UK 100 looks set to open lower this morning, this follows a mixed finish on Wall Street yesterday and a drop in the price of oil. On Wall Street last night the Nasdaq rose 0.65% to a new all-time high, while the Dow Jones retreated from its own all time high, falling 0.49%. The S&P finished just above flat.
AstraZeneca PLC has set out its ambition to deliver $80 billion in annual revenue by the end of the decade, boosted by the launch of 20 new drugs from its pipeline. This would almost double the level of sales, having generated $45.8 billion in 2023.
Kingfisher has kept its full-year guidance, recording positive sales in the UK, offset by a sales decline in France. In its first quarter results, Kingfisher recorded total sales of £3.3bn, down 0.3% on a reported basis and 0.9% on a like-for-like basis.
Smiths Group backed its full-year targets after revenue grew in the third quarter, as well as for the nine months of its fiscal year, on the back of strong demand and improving market conditions. The U.K. engineering group said Tuesday that organic revenue rose 7.7% in the quarter ended May 3, bringing the growth for the first three quarters to 5.2%, after record growth of 13% reported for the first nine months of fiscal 2023.
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