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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| HOWDEN JOINERY GROUP PLC | 655.6 | 4.2% |
| 3I GROUP PLC | 1,247.0 | 4.2% |
| SPIRAX-SARCO ENGINEERING PLC | 11,330.0 | 4.0% |
| INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP | 1,472.0 | 3.9% |
| HALMA PLC | 2,247.0 | 3.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| DECHRA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC | 3618.0 | -3.0% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 753.2 | -2.8% |
| BAE SYSTEMS PLC | 783.2 | -2.5% |
| SSE PLC | 1721.0 | -2.4% |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 113.5 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,271 | 0.1% | 3.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 31,859 | -0.1% | -8.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,247 | -0.3% | -14.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,803 | 0.4% | 0.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,794 | 0.5% | -8.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 97.01 | -2.87% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 104.66 | -2.11% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,713 | 1.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 331 | -0.5% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +5 points this morning at 7275. The UK 100 looks set to open higher after another good day on Wall Street which was largely due to the performance of the share price of Tesla, following after hour results from the previous session. The rise in the UK 100 despite the surprise half a percent interest rate rise from the ECB yesterday, implies that UK markets are still taking more of a lead from Wall Street than Europe. A resumption of Nord Stream 1 supplies by Russia also helped the mood. Stateside yesterday saw The tech-heavy Nasdaq gain 1.36% to close at 12,059.61. The S&P added 0.99% to finish at 3,998.95. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones gained 162.06 points, or 0.51%, the blue-chip index ended at 32,036.90
Beazley reports that their H1 pretax profit has fallen to $22.3m from $167.3m a year ago. Their EPS has fallen to 1.7p from 17.7p (-90%) last year as gross written premiums grow 26% to $2.55bn.
BT says the CMA has approved the 50/50 joint venture with Warner Bros Discovery to create a TV sport-focused joint venture in the coming weeks.
Homeserve reports that the last quarter's trading has been in line with expectations as businesses in North America & EMEA have continued to make good progress.
JD Sports expects FY headline pretax profit to be in line with prior record year, as the process to find a new permanent CEO is ongoing.
Berenberg Downgrades Hochschild Mining to Hold from Buy (4 Buys / 2 Holds / 0 Sells)
Bernstein Upgrades Unilever to Outperform from Market Perform (3 Buys / 11 Holds / 1 Sell)
JP Morgan Downgrades Quilter to Neutral from Overweight (5 Buys / 5 Holds / 0 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Upgrades Wise to Overweight from Equal Weight (2 Buys / 4 Holds / 1 Sell)
RBC Downgrades Fevertree Drinks to Underperform from Sector Perform (5 Buys / 13 Holds / 1 Sell)
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