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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Bunzl PLC | 3,456.7 | 7.6% |
| Easyjet PLC | 477.6 | 6.6% |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,288.0 | 1.7% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,908.5 | 1.6% |
| Whitbread PLC | 2,894.0 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Barratt Developments PLC | 519.6 | -5.8% |
| Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC | 822.1 | -4.8% |
| Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC | 4986.0 | -4.2% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 143.2 | -4.1% |
| Persimmon PLC | 1640.5 | -3.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,345 | 0.2% | 13.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 41,251 | 0.0% | 19.4% |
| DAX INDEX | 18,682 | 0.4% | 18.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 38,372 | 0.2% | 19.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,071 | 0.0% | 12.7% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 75.65 | 0.16% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 79.68 | 0.16% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,507 | -0.7% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 426 | -1.0% |
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The UK 100 called to open +30 points at 8,375. The UK 100 looks set to open higher again this morning.
Stateside yesterday saw the S&P rise slightly on Tuesday as investors looked ahead to a major earnings report later this week. The broad market index gained 0.16% to close at 5,625.80, while the Nasdaq crept 0.16% higher to end at 17,754.82. The Dow Jones rose 9.98 points, or 0.02%, to end at 41,250.50, its second record close in a row.
Focus will today be on earnings released from top artificial intelligence beneficiary Nvidia, due after Wednesday’s closing bell.
Markets in Asia this morning traded broadly lower today, in Japan the Nikkei 225 Index closed the morning session at 38,199.52, down 89.10 points or 0.23 percent, after hitting a low of 38,141.49 earlier. Elsewhere in Asia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan were lower by between 0.1% and 1.0% each.
Delaware’s highest court said on Tuesday it will hear an appeal by GSK and other drugmakers seeking to end more than 70,000 lawsuits claiming discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer.
Prudential raised its first interim dividend by 9.3% despite a 66% fall in IFRS attributable pretax profit to $394 million in the first half of 2024 from USD1.18 billion a year before. Adjusted operating profit was $1.54 billion, up 6% from $1.46 billion. New business profit was down 1% to $1.47 billion from $1.49 billion, but the Asia-focused insurer and asset manager said it saw a pick-up in sales momentum in June, which has continued into the second half of the year. It expects new business profit to grow in all of 2024 in line with its objective for 2022-27 of a 15% to 20% compound annual growth rate.
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