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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Natwest Group PLC | 354.3 | 3.5% |
| Shell PLC | 2,638.0 | 2.4% |
| Convatec Group PLC | 226.0 | 2.1% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 840.6 | 1.5% |
| Barclays PLC | 229.7 | 1.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1692.0 | -5.6% |
| Smith & Nephew PLC | 1101.0 | -3.2% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 134.3 | -3.1% |
| Vistry Group PLC | 1273.0 | -2.9% |
| Astrazeneca PLCMelrose Industries PLC | 447.1 | -2.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,304 | 0.3% | 10.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 41,954 | -0.9% | 25.6% |
| DAX INDEX | 19,104 | -0.1% | 25.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 39,333 | 1.8% | 26.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,205 | 0.7% | 18.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 77.14 | 3.71% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 81.03 | 3.82% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,643 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 457 | -0.2% |
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The UK 100 called to open -64 points at 8,240. The UK 100 looks set to open sharply lower this morning having started the week on the front foot yesterday.
It was a difficult session for traders on Wall Street yesterday, rising oil prices paired with higher treasury yields weighed on stock prices.
The Dow Jones dropped 398.51 points, or 0.94%, ending at 41,954.24. The S&P 500 slid 0.96% to 5,695.94, and the Nasdaq lost 1.18% to close at 17,923.90.
In Asia this morning markets were also volatile, in Hong Kong The Hang Seng index dropped by 7% as shares gave back a lot of recent gains.
Oil traded around 2% lower, trading just over the $80 per barrel level.
Imperial Brands has increased its shareholder returns programme by £400m after confirming it finished the fiscal year with in-line results, with growth in both tobacco and next generation products
Vistry cut its fiscal 2024 profit outlook by 80 million pounds ($104.7 million) on Tuesday, hurt by a one-off impact due to a revision in development costs in one of its divisions. The company said it expects adjusted profit before tax in the year ending Dec. 31 to be about 350 million pounds.
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Imperial Brands
UNITE Group
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PepsiCo
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Mercantile Investment Trust*
Marstons
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German Industrial Production
EU Eurogroup Meeting
Fed’s Kugler speech
Fed’s Bostic speech
Fed’s Jefferson speech
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 10th October 2024:
Taylor Wimpey
WPP
Kingfisher
Tesco
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 10th October 2024:
JPMorgan Emerging Markets Invest Trust
Merchants Trust
Bluefield Solar Income Fund
Supermarket Income REIT
Primary Health Properties
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