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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Melrose Industries PLC | 128.0 | 3.2% |
| Airtel Africa PLC | 113.0 | 2.8% |
| BP PLC | 466.6 | 2.5% |
| Beazley PLC | 649.9 | 2.2% |
| Shell PLC | 2,287.0 | 2.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| London Stock Exchange Group PLC | 7,134.0 | -2.8% |
| Rightmove PLC | 516.6 | -2.8% |
| Auto Trader Group PLC | 521.8 | -2.4% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 115.7 | -2.1% |
| Next PLC | 5,530.0 | -1.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK100 INDEX | 7,361 | 0.4% | 2.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,758 | -0.5% | -6.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,943 | 0.4% | -10.2% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 26,568 | -2.5% | -4.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,024 | -1.5% | -3.7% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 75.51 | 0.43% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 79.79 | -0.01% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,794 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 377 | -0.3% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -35 points this morning at 7326. The UK 100 looks set to make a weak start to trading following a surprise move by the Bank of Japan which sent Asian markets lower. Japan's central bank tweaked its longstanding monetary easing programme, in a surprise decision that saw the yen strengthen against the dollar, while the Nikkei 225 fell. US markets also failed yesterday to get into the festive mood heading downwards for a fourth day in a row as investors continued to fret that higher interest rates will dent economic growth. At the close the Dow Jones was down 164 points, or 0.5%, to 32,757, the S&P slipped 35 points, or 0.9%, to 3,817 and the Nasdaq declined 159 points, or 1.5%, to 10,546.
Dechra have this morning announced that Geeta Gopalan will be appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Company. Geeta will be a member of the Group's Audit, Remuneration and Nomination Committees with the intention that she will be appointed as Chair of the Remuneration Committee from 1 March 2023.
TSB Bank have been fined by The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) a total of £48,650,000 for operational risk management and governance failures, including management of outsourcing risks, relating to the bank's IT upgrade programme. Technical failures in TSB's IT system ultimately resulted in customers being unable to access banking services.
Petrofac
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PBoC Interest Rate Decision
BoJ Interest Rate Decision
BoJ Monetary Policy Statement
BoJ Press Conference
German Producer Price Index
US Building Permits
US Housing Starts
EU Consumer Confidence
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 22nd December 2022:
British American Tobacco
United Utilities Group
Halma
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 22nd December 2022:
Home REIT
Britvic
IntegraFin Holdings
JPMorgan Japanese Investment Trust
Law Debenture Corporation
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust
Mercantile Investment Trust
JPMorgan European Discovery Trust
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