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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Croda International PLC | 4,805.0 | 4.8% |
| GSK PLC | 1,568.0 | 2.0% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,735.0 | 1.7% |
| Severn Trent PLC | 2,598.0 | 1.5% |
| Flutter Entertainment PLC | 16,285.0 | 1.3% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| WPP PLC | 771.4 | -3.0% |
| Marks And Spencer Group PLC | 247.3 | -2.9% |
| M&G PLC | 224.1 | -2.4% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 518.6 | -2.2% |
| Vodafone Group PLC | 67.3 | -2.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,631 | -0.5% | -1.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 38,150 | -0.8% | 11.9% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,904 | -0.4% | 11.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 36,011 | -0.8% | 31.7% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,588 | -1.2% | 1.2% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 75.89 | 0.05% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 81.71 | -1.40% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,042 | 0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 386 | -1.2% |
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The UK 100 called to open +44 points at 7,666. The UK 100 looks set to open higher this morning, this comes after Wall Street rallied and Meta provided some fireworks after the US close. On Wall Street yesterday the 30-stock Dow added 369.54 points, or 0.97% to close at 38,519.84. It was a fresh record close for the blue-chip index, which also wiped its losses from a day earlier. The S&P added 1.25% to close at 4,906.19. The Nasdaq gained 1.3% to finish the session at 15,361.64. After the closing bell in New York, Meta leapt 15.6% after unveiling a $50 billion share buyback, its first ever dividend and better-than-expected results. In focus today will be US Non-Farm Payrolls.
AstraZeneca hails positive results from phase 3 trial of acoramidis in adults with ATTR-CM.
Ryanair’s January traffic grew +3% to 12.2m guests.
Wizz Air update that they carried 4.7m passengers in January 2024, +14.2 YoY, at a load factor of 82%. They have reinstated flights between Jordan and Abu Dhabi, starting from the 4th of February.
Barclays Upgrades EasyJet to Overweight from Equal-weight (11 Buys / 5 Holds / 1 Sell)
Barclays Upgrades Wizz Air to Equal-Weight from Underweight (9 Buys / 7 Holds / 3 Sells)
Jefferies Upgrades Wise to Buy from Hold (7 Buys / 5 Holds / 3 Sells)
RBC Downgrades Close Brothers to Sector Perform from Outperform (3 Buys / 4 Holds / 1 Sell)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 8th February 2023:
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UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 8th February 2023:
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