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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| BURBERRY GROUP PLC | 2,123.0 | 6.9% |
| BARCLAYS PLC | 180.6 | 3.6% |
| M&G PLC | 225.6 | 2.9% |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 300.8 | 2.0% |
| NATWEST GROUP PLC | 190.7 | 2.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| BERKELEY GROUP HOLDINGS/THE | 4306.0 | -5.8% |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 930.8 | -2.7% |
| RIGHTMOVE PLC | 561.6 | -2.1% |
| CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC | 6182.0 | -1.8% |
| SCOTTISH MORTGAGE INV TR PLC | 1148.0 | -1.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| FTSE 100 INDEX | 6,761 | 0.4% | 26.0% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,779 | 0.9% | 41.4% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,502 | -0.5% | 57.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 29,767 | 0.2% | 70.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,773 | 0.1% | 22.3% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 66.00 | 0.59% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 69.61 | 0.56% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,725 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 413 | -0.2% |
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UK 100 is called to open +15 points this morning at 6776. Calls for a positive open today come as hopes rise that Americans would spend a large chunk of Joe Biden’s Covid stimulus cheques investing on the stock market & Bank of America have also said the boost to US markets, could spillover into European stocks. Asian markets were mixed today despite strong consumer spending data coming out of China. Retail sales in the first two months of the year surged 33.8%
Company News
Ascential reports that their 2020 revenue came in at £263.7m (2019: £380.3m).
BT workers are to vote on industrial action in a row over jobs, threatening the first national strike at the communications giant in more than 30 years.
DCC buys Worner Medizinprodukte for an initial enterprise value of 80m euros.
Provident Financial performed slightly better than internal expectations in Q4 as their consumer credit division collections remained strong. They also state the FCA has opened an enforcement investigation into their consumer credit division.
Berenberg initiates Boohoo with a Buy (9 Buys / 4 Holds / 2 Sells)
Jefferies initiates Moonpig with a Buy (1 Buy / 0 Holds / 0 Sells)
JP Morgan initiates Moonpig with Overweight (1 Buy / 0 Holds / 0 Sells)
Ascential
4imprint Group
Antofagasta
C&C Group
Close Brothers Group
Computacenter
Elementis
Ferguson
Greggs
Just Group
Ploypipe Group
Sabre Insurance Group
TI Fluid Systems
Unite Group
Chinese Retail Sales
Eurogroup Meeting
Chinese NBS Press Conference
Chinese Industrial Production
UK 100:
SEGRO
Anglo American
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
CRH
M&G
UK 250:
Dunelm Group
BlackRock World Mining Trust
Tritax Big Box REIT
Spirent Communications
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