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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Shell PLC | 2,831.0 | 2.4% |
| Next PLC | 9,986.0 | 1.9% |
| Babcock International Group PLC | 746.0 | 1.8% |
| Kingfisher PLC | 244.5 | 1.8% |
| National Grid PLC | 979.6 | 1.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Admiral Group PLC | 2,818.0 | -2.6% |
| Smiths Group PLC | 1,974.0 | -2.3% |
| Schroders PLC | 374.6 | -2.0% |
| Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC | 312.5 | -1.9% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,890.0 | -1.9% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,690 | 0.3% | 9.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 42,455 | -0.3% | 6.8% |
| DAX INDEX | 22,839 | -1.2% | 23.6% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 37,800 | -0.6% | -7.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,969 | -0.4% | 1.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 69.44 | -0.30% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 73.59 | -0.27% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 3,032 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 523 | -0.3% |
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The UK 100 called to open -45 points this morning at 8,644. The UK 100 looks set to open lower this morning, this follows tariffs set out by President Trump overnight, sending Wall Street and Japanese stocks tumbling. A 25% tariff on cars from overseas was confirmed by the US President ahead of his expected wide-ranging ‘reciprocal’ levies on other goods from around the world next week.
The S&P lost 1.12% and ended at 5,712.20, while the Dow Jones fell 132.71 points, or 0.31%, to close at 42,454.79. The tech-heavy Nasdaq shed 2.04% and closed at 17,899.01, as Nvidia shares dropped nearly 6%. Major tech names such as Meta Platforms and Amazon dropped more than 2%, while Alphabet lost more than 3%. Tesla slid more than 5%.
Next annual profits today broke £1 billion for the first time after a 10.1% increase in the financial year to January. It expects further growth in the current year after today’s results showed that trading in the first eight weeks of the period has been ahead of expectations. Next increased profit guidance by £20 million to £1.07 billion, an increase of 5.4% on today’s landmark figure of £1.01 billion. Sales rose 8.2% to £6.3 billion in 2024/25, with full-price sales up 5.8%. The company now estimates sales growth of 5% for the first half of the year and full-price sales up 6.5%, compared with previous estimates of 3.5% in both cases.
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 27th March 2025:
British American Tobacco
SEGRO
Standard Chartered
Smith & Nephew
Taylor Wimpey
Melrose Industries
Schroders
M&G
Prudential
Games Workshop Group
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 27th March 2025:
Crest Nicholson Holdings
Aberdeen Group
Primary Health Properties
OSB Group
Empiric Student Property
Volution Group
Fidelity European Trust
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