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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ADMIRAL GROUP PLC | 3,102.0 | 2.7% |
| BERKELEY GROUP HOLDINGS/THE | 4,744.0 | 2.4% |
| CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC | 10,285.0 | 2.2% |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC-DI | 11,245.0 | 1.9% |
| INFORMA PLC | 505.8 | 1.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| DARKTRACE PLC | 409.8 | -4.5% |
| 3I GROUP PLC | 1405.0 | -3.4% |
| DCC PLC | 5654.0 | -2.9% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 128.6 | -2.4% |
| SMITH & NEPHEW PLC | 1252.5 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,337 | 0.0% | 11.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,755 | 0.1% | 18.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,687 | -0.8% | 18.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,861 | 1.4% | 7.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,405 | 1.3% | 10.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 72.36 | 0.43% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 75.92 | 0.64% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,783 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 439 | 1.2% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +30 points today at 7366. A higher open is expected once more this morning for the UK 100 as investors continue to take positivity and solace from reports that a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine would give decent protection against the omicron variant. On Wall Street yesterday the Dow Jones ended 0.10% or 35 points higher at 35,754.75, the S&P 500 rose 0.31% to 4701.21 and the Nasdaq jumped 0.64% to 15,786.99. Asian markets were mixed on Thursday, China’s Shanghai Composite surged 0.97% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 0.99%, The Nikkei in Japan slipped 0.47% while South Korea’s Kospi gained 0.93%.
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