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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Marks And Spencer Group PLC | 319.8 | 3.0% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 446.1 | 2.7% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,922.0 | 1.2% |
| Howden Joinery Group PLC | 934.0 | 1.1% |
| Diploma PLC | 4,270.0 | 1.1% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Burberry Group PLC | 697.6 | -7.2% |
| Spirax Group PLC | 8450.0 | -5.7% |
| Beazley PLC | 651.5 | -3.3% |
| JD Sports Fashion PLC | 117.2 | -3.1% |
| Entain PLC | 644.2 | -3.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,156 | -0.6% | 6.4% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 40,288 | -0.9% | 14.4% |
| DAX INDEX | 18,172 | -1.0% | 12.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 40,064 | -0.2% | 24.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,972 | -0.8% | 9.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 80.13 | -3.25% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 82.63 | -2.91% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,401 | -1.8% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 424 | -1.0% |
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The UK 100 called to open +55 points at 8,197. UK 100 is set to open higher on Monday after US President Joe Biden ended his re-election bid and threw his weight behind Vice President Kamala Harris and China cut their key interest rate to boost the economy. In the US the major indices sold off assessing the impact of the Tech outage which occurred on Friday with the Dow closing -0.9%, S&P -0.7% and Nasdaq -0.8%. In Asia today Shanghai closed -1%, Hong Kong +0.6% and Tokyo -1.1%.
BT have been fined £17.5m by Ofcom for 999 call-handling failures.
Entain names Gavin Isaacs as CEO with effect from September 2nd.
Hammerson sells their entire interest in Value Retail for £600m cash.
Ocado and Kroger add technological enhancements to customer fulfilment centres to deliver efficiencies and labour productivity.
Rentokil Initial: Former CEO of BT Group Philip Jansen is leading a possible takeover offer from private equity firms for Rentokil Initial.
Ryanair warns that their passenger fares were down versus the summer of 2023 as their quarterly profit nearly halved. They reported a pretax profit of 400.8m euros for the three months ended June 30th, down 46% from 740.7m euros a year before.
Vodafone sells a further 10% stake in Vantage Towers controller Oak Holdings for 1.3bn euros.
Berenberg Upgrades The Gym Group to Buy from Hold (7 Buys / 2 Holds / 0 Sells)
JP Morgan Upgrades Travis Perkins to Overweight from Underweight (4 Buys / 10 Holds / 0 Sells)
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Verizon Communications
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Compass Group PLC
Mitie Group PLC
Sthree PLC
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Coca-Cola
GE Aerospace
General Motors
Philip Morris International
Spotify Technology SA
Alphabet Inc C
Alphabet Inc A
Microsoft Corp
Teladoc Health
Tesla
Visa Inc Class A
PBoC Interest Rate Decision
Eurogroup Meeting
German Buba Monthly Report
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 25th July 2024:
SSE
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 25th July 2024:
Pennon Group
QinetiQ Group
Foresight Solar Fund
Bankers Investment Trust
City of London Investment Trust
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