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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL SA | 578.0 | 6.9% |
| SMITHS GROUP PLC | 1,459.0 | 2.6% |
| NATIONAL GRID PLC | 948.1 | 1.9% |
| SEVERN TRENT PLC | 2,840.0 | 1.2% |
| RENTOKIL INITIAL PLC | 589.8 | 1.1% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| PERSIMMON PLC | 2717.0 | -4.0% |
| TAYLOR WIMPEY PLC | 169.3 | -3.8% |
| LAND SECURITIES GROUP PLC | 708.0 | -3.5% |
| BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC | 684.2 | -3.4% |
| BERKELEY GROUP HOLDINGS/THE | 4527.5 | -2.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,096 | -0.8% | 18.0% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,031 | -0.2% | 25.4% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,610 | -1.5% | 17.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 29,970 | -0.7% | 30.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,365 | -2.0% | 25.3% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 69.24 | -0.09% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 72.63 | 0.04% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,788 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 424 | 0.1% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -50 today at 7045. A lower open is expected this morning in the UK comes as investors ponder today's ECB rate meeting, as it is questioned whether this could be the first of the major central banks to begin to taper its asset purchase programme? This follows a tough session on Wall Street On Wednesday which saw, the Dow Jones and S&P both fall for the third day straight. The Dow dropped 68 points, and the S&P m slid 0.13%. The Nasdaq was the worst affected of the major benchmarks, dipping 0.6%. Shares in Asia this morning followed the lead from the States, Japan’s Nikkei was down 0.68% to trade at 29,975 and Hong Kong’s Hang Send gave up 1.98% to trade at 25,804 whilst the Shanghai Composite was only slightly lower at 3,673.
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