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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| INFORMA PLC | 535.6 | 2.3% |
| SEGRO PLC | 1,136.0 | 1.6% |
| UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC | 1,016.0 | 1.6% |
| AVAST PLC | 502.0 | 1.5% |
| AVEVA GROUP PLC | 3,888.0 | 1.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1404.5 | -4.6% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 1901.5 | -4.2% |
| BP PLC | 310.8 | -4.2% |
| EVRAZ PLC | 586.6 | -4.0% |
| BRITISH LAND CO PLC | 501.2 | -4.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,101 | -0.9% | 13.0% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,495 | -0.8% | 33.6% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,511 | -1.0% | 21.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,643 | 0.2% | 26.7% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,262 | -0.7% | 20.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 73.53 | -2.17% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 74.69 | -3.20% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,796 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 425 | -0.6% |
The UK 100 is called to open +18 points today at 7118. Calls for a modestly higher open this morning come after a sell of towards the end of yesterday's session saw a 1% fall on the UK blue chip index, driven by oil prices hitting the highest levels in six years, those gains however have been wiped out overnight. It was a mixed performance on Wall Street, the Dow Jones closed down 0.6% at 34,577 while the S&P 500 dropped 0.2% to 4,343. The Nasdaq however, rose by 0.17% to a record 14,663. Markets in Asia were more negative this morning, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 1.2% while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng sank 0.81%. In focus today will be the minutes from the June meeting of the US Federal Reserve’s rate-setting FOMC.
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