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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Tesco PLC | 260.1 | 1.9% |
| Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | 3,148.0 | 1.8% |
| Melrose Industries PLC | 508.8 | 1.4% |
| Intertek Group PLC | 4,133.0 | 1.4% |
| CRH PLC | 4,508.0 | 1.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1,625.0 | -2.8% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 549.4 | -2.1% |
| International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. | 157.9 | -1.6% |
| Prudential PLC | 946.8 | -1.4% |
| Johnson Matthey PLC | 1,543.0 | -1.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,339 | 0.1% | -1.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,560 | 0.6% | 7.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,793 | 1.0% | 22.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 32,227 | 0.2% | 15.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,211 | 0.7% | 3.5% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 79.84 | -0.32% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 84.23 | -0.23% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,923 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 382 | 0.6% |
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The UK 100 called to open +82 points at 7,419. The UK 100 looks set to edge higher after the extended weekend following gains in the US and news that UK shop price inflation decelerated further in August. Chinese stocks extended Monday’s gains after China’s regulators decided to slash the tax paid on stock trades for the first time since 2008, while in the US, stocks ended higher, with the Dow and the S&P 500 both up 0.6%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 0.8%.
Bunzl has hiked their annual adjusted operating profit forecast buoyed by easing operating costs and as acquisitions pay off. They now expect their 2023 adjusted operating profit to be moderately higher than
last year at constant exchange rates, with operating margin remaining strong and moderately higher than the prior year.
Hochschild says Eduardo Landin is to succeed Bustamante as CEO.
IG Group says their CEO June Felix is to step down due to ill health.
PureTech Health report a H1 2023 pretax loss of $13.7m, which has narrowed from $56m YoY.
Rio Tinto and First Quantum Minerals are to complete a joint venture deal for La Granja project in Peru.
Barclays Upgrades Britvic to Overweight from Equal Weight (6 Buys / 6 Holds / 0 Sells)
UBS Downgrades HSBC to Neutral from Buy (10 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
UK
Bunzl
Puretech Health
US
NIO
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HP
UK
Prudential
US
CrowdStrike Holdings
Salesforce
German Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey
US Housing Price Index
US Consumer Confidence
US JOLTS Job Openings
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 31st August 2023:
Glencore
Endeavour Mining
Glencore
Croda International
Antofagasta
InterContinental Hotels Group
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 31st August 2023:
Ithaca Energy
Redde Northgate
PageGroup
Diversified Energy Company
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
Quilter
Centamin
LondonMetric Property
Genuit Group
Clarkson
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
Savills
Alliance Trust
JPMorgan American Investment Trust
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