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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 1,484.5 | 8.5% |
| ASTRAZENECA PLC | 7,606.0 | 6.8% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1,609.0 | 6.6% |
| CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC | 4,685.0 | 6.2% |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 749.6 | 4.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| TAYLOR WIMPEY PLC | 127.2 | -10.4% |
| BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC | 464.3 | -9.4% |
| INFORMA PLC | 426.2 | -8.0% |
| INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROU | 3415.0 | -8.0% |
| COMPASS GROUP PLC | 1253.0 | -7.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 5,791 | -0.9% | -22.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 23,950 | 2.4% | -9.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 10,697 | 1.3% | -11.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 19,550 | -0.5% | -11.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 5,467 | -0.4% | -12.6% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 20.30 | 0.94% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 29.42 | -0.61% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,718 | -0.5% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 232 | -0.5% |
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UK 100 called to open -35 points points at 5758. This comes as market sentiment overnight was rocked by the fall in price of oil as Saudi Arabia delivered record price cuts, at one stage this saw oil down more than 10% and overshadowed last weeks record production cut deal, in focus today will be US EIA Crude Oil Stocks. It was a day of slight pullbacks in Asia, the Nikkei dropped by 0.45% giving up 89 points to trade at 19,550, whilst in Hong Kon, the Hang Seng fell by 216 points to trade 0.89% lower at 24, 218 & in China the story was similar as the CSI 300 dropped 0.82% to trade at 3,794. Oil trades at $27.2 per barrel. Gold continues to trade around 9 years highs at $1,718 at time of writing
888 Holdings announces that its board of directors has recommended the payment of a final dividend of 3 cents per share.
Ferguson announce that group trading to 31st March 2020 was not materially impacted by COVID-19, although revenue weakened towards the end of the period. Early April trading however, has been significantly impacted. They have decided to withdraw the interim dividend payment due for payment on April 30th 2020, because of the market uncertainty in the current climate.
Smurfit Kappa announce in their Q1 2020 trading update that they are to withdraw their previously proposed final dividend of 80.9 cent per share due to the COVID-19 outbreak. They posted revenues of 2,194m euros and EBITDA of 380m euros.
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