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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO PLC | 3,138.0 | 0.8% |
| BURBERRY GROUP PLC | 1,925.5 | 0.8% |
| GLAXOSMITHKLINE PLC | 1,647.2 | 0.7% |
| UNILEVER PLC | 3,675.0 | 0.5% |
| TESCO PLC | 288.8 | 0.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ENTAIN PLC | 1635.0 | -5.2% |
| EVRAZ PLC | 540.6 | -4.2% |
| SCOTTISH MORTGAGE INV TR PLC | 1109.5 | -3.9% |
| PERSHING SQUARE HOLDINGS LTD | 2770.0 | -3.7% |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 830.4 | -3.6% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,494 | -1.2% | 11.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,265 | -1.3% | 10.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,604 | -1.9% | 12.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,588 | 0.2% | -3.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,140 | -0.5% | 5.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 85.56 | 0.49% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 88.38 | 0.56% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,838 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 447 | -1.1% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -26 points today at 7468. The UK’s Blue-chip index is expected to open in the red today amid worries about conflict in Ukraine and ahead of the Fed’s monthly meeting which kicks off tomorrow, the exception from some analysts is to see the unwinding of monetary support that kept markets airborne to accelerate. This follows a tough week on Wall Street, The S&P 500 lost 5.7% on the week, The blue-chip Dow fell 4.6% for its worst week since October 2020. The sell-off in the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was even more severe with the benchmark dropping 7.6% last week, notching its fourth straight weekly loss.
Computacenter reports that they finished Q4 ahead of internal expectations as their 2021 adjusted pretax profit is expected to be slightly more than £250m.
De La Rue says their profit miss is due to higher commodity and energy prices, supply chain issues. Their FY22 adjusted operating profit has been downgraded to £36-40m (from £45-57m previously).
GKP says their average production for 2021 was at the top end of guidance as they declare an additional interim dividend of $50m.
GSK and Vir Biotechnology will boost production of their antibody-based COVID-19 treatment by adding a second manufacturing plant to help meet soaring demand in the USA.
Informa is preparing to launch an auction process to sell its clinical trial data provider Citeline in a deal that could value the business at up to £1.2bn.
Petropavlovsk names Ploshchenko as their CFO, effective immediately.
Vodafone and Iliad are in talks to strike a deal in Italy which would combine their respective businesses in a bid to end cut-throat competition.
RBC Downgrades Associated British Foods to Sector Perform from Outperform (10 Buys / 4 Holds / 0 Sells)
Jefferies Downgrades Barratt Developments to Hold from Buy (14 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
Jefferies Downgrades Bellway to Hold from Buy (12 Buys / 4 Holds / 0 Sells)
Jefferies Downgrades Berkeley Group to Hold from Buy (8 Buys / 5 Holds / 3 Sells)
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