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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 609.0 | 5.0% |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 510.3 | 4.4% |
| Prudential PLC | 964.8 | 3.9% |
| Rio Tinto PLC | 5,563.0 | 3.7% |
| Anglo American PLC | 3,289.5 | 3.7% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Halma PLC | 2128.0 | -6.3% |
| Sage Group PLC | 786.0 | -3.7% |
| Croda International PLC | 6712.0 | -2.8% |
| Ocado Group PLC | 617.0 | -2.7% |
| Experian PLC | 2869.0 | -2.6% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,512 | 0.5% | 5.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,853 | 0.0% | -3.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,355 | -0.2% | -6.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,028 | -0.5% | 0.7% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,253 | 0.3% | 0.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 78.20 | 1.24% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 83.70 | 0.61% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,743 | -0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 364 | 0.7% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +35 points this morning at 7555. The UK 100 looks set to make a positive start to the session today, as investors look ahead to CPI figures from the EU and a speech by Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell later today. Wall Street was mixed at the close the Dow Jones was 3 points higher at 33,850, the S&P slipped 6 points, or 0.16%, to 3,958 and the Nasdaq fell 66 points, or 0.59%, to 10,984. In Asia, stocks were mixed. Tokyo's Nikkei index was down 0.2%. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.4%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was up 0.3%.
AstraZeneca are to sell their West Chester manufacturing site in Ohio biomanufacturing company National Resilience.
Pennon Group report H1 FY23 pretax profit of £20.9m (2021: £79.9m profit) as they declare an interim dividend of 12.96p per share, +11% YoY. They state that their FY underlying results are expected to be H1 weighted and they expect FY23 total power costs to increase by £50m.
Rio Tinto plans to invest a further $600m in renewable energy assets in the Pilbara region. They also expect 320-335Mt Pilbara iron ore shipments in 2023, with 3-3.8m carats diamonds in 2023 (2022: 4.5-5m)
Ryanair are in talks with authorities in Egypt and Libya about operating flights to the countries for the first time.
Exane BNP Upgrades Melrose Industries to Outperform from Neutral (4 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
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