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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 206.5 | 7.4% |
| Mondi PLC | 1,313.5 | 5.5% |
| St. James’s Place PLC | 907.2 | 4.3% |
| Flutter Entertainment PLC | 15,160.0 | 3.6% |
| Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | 3,242.0 | 3.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Wpp PLC | 818.0 | -3.5% |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC | 10,925.0 | -1.1% |
| Compass Group PLC | 1,996.0 | -1.0% |
| Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC | 5,622.0 | -1.0% |
| Haleon PLC | 321.8 | -1.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,564 | 0.5% | 1.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,066 | -0.4% | 6.9% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,952 | 0.4% | 17.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 32,255 | 0.2% | 14.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,309 | -0.2% | 4.2% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 82.65 | -0.21% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 86.06 | -0.21% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,937 | -0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 385 | -0.5% |
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The UK 100 called to open -20 point at 7,546. The UK 100 is expected to start the week on the back foot after falls on Wall Street on Friday and a mixed session in Asia. In the US on Friday, markets conceded early gains to close lower. The Dow Jones and the Nasdaq were both down 0.4%. The S&P was down 0.5%. In Asia this morning, markets were mixed. The Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo was up 0.1%. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.8%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 0.3%.
Clarkson report that their H1 pretax profit has risen YoY to £52.2m up from £42m. They have left their FY expectations unchanged as they are mindful of currency headwinds and softening rate environment.
PageGroup report a H1 2023 pretax profit of £63.3m, down from £114.5m YoY. They have increased their H1 2023 dividend to 5.13p per share, up from 4.91p YoY.
JP Morgan Upgrades Rolls-Royce to Neutral from Underweight (7 Buys / 8 Holds / 1 Sell)
RBC Downgrades Unite Group to Sector Perform from Outperform (3 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
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German Industrial Production n.s.a. w.d.a.
German Industrial Production s.a.
EU Sentix Investor Confidence
BoE’s Pill speech
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Japanese Labor Cash Earnings
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 10th August 2023:
Ashtead Group
Rio Tinto
Barclays
Shell
Informa
SEGRO
Natwest Group
AstraZeneca
Standard Chartered
IMI
Pearson
HSBC Holdings
BP
Fresnillo
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 10th August 2023:
Greencoat UK Wind
Vanquis Banking Group
GCP Infrastructure Investments
Impax Environmental Markets
Scottish American Investment Company
Man Group
Domino’s Pizza Group
Renewables Infrastructure Group
Target Healthcare REIT
Spirent Communications
IP Group
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
Tritax Big Box REIT
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
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