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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 119.8 | 5.7% |
| Ocado Group PLC | 652.6 | 5.0% |
| Anglo American PLC | 3,243.5 | 3.8% |
| St. James’s Place PLC | 1,110.0 | 3.5% |
| Frasers Group PLC | 745.5 | 3.3% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Bunzl PLC | 2,779.0 | -1.5% |
| Severn Trent PLC | 2,651.0 | -0.6% |
| Halma PLC | 2,054.0 | -0.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,482 | 1.5% | 1.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,406 | 1.7% | -5.9% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,079 | 1.4% | -9.6% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 26,388 | -0.7% | -7.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,115 | 1.3% | -3.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 78.07 | 2.41% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 81.82 | 2.29% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,818 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 381 | 0.4% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +22 points this morning at 7518. The UK 100 looks set to extend yesterdays gains this morning, despite data showing that UK gross domestic product (GDP) is estimated to have fallen by 0.3% between July to September, downwardly revised from a first estimate fall of 0.2%, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. In the US yesterday, the Dow was 1.6% higher at 33,376, while the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 both posted gains of 1.5% to close at 10,709 and 3,878 points respectively. In Asia on Thursday, the Japanese Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.5%. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.5%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was rallying strongly, up 2.3% in late trade. The S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney closed up 0.5%.
ASOS Plc this morning announced it has further strengthened its Board with the appointment of Marie Gulin-Merle as Non-Executive Director.
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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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