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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Next PLC | 6,518.0 | 6.9% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 705.2 | 6.8% |
| Anglo American PLC | 3,319.0 | 4.4% |
| Associated British Foods PLC | 1,744.5 | 4.3% |
| HSBC Holdings PLC | 565.3 | 4.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Pearson PLC | 898.4 | -5.9% |
| Croda International PLC | 6,516.0 | -3.3% |
| Haleon PLC | 313.0 | -3.0% |
| Segro PLC | 782.0 | -2.5% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 946.2 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,633 | 0.6% | 2.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,930 | -1.0% | -9.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,436 | -0.4% | -11.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 25,974 | 0.6% | -8.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,110 | 0.7% | -3.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 73.94 | 0.37% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 78.92 | 0.29% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,838 | 0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 384 | 0.4% |
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The UK 100 called to open +25 points at 7657. The UK 100 is expected to make further progress when trading opens on Friday ahead of EU inflation and US non-farm payrolls figures due later today. On Wall Street yesterday, the Dow Jones was down 340 points, or 1.02%, at 32,930, the S&P fell 45 points, or 1.16%, to 3,808 and the Nasdaq dipped 154 points, or 1.47%, to 10,305, this came after a strong ADP jobs report and hawkish comments from Esther George, president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, who told CNBC that she favoured holding rates above 5% for some time.
Clarkson says their results are anticipated to be ahead of current market expectations as their 2022 underlying pretax profit is expected to be at least £98m.
Essentra expects to deliver FY LFL revenue growth of 6.5% as they confirm their intention to return about £150m to shareholder in Q1. They are confident in their ability to pass through price increases to offset inflation.
Shell expects to pay about $2bn in additional taxes in Q4 of 2022 related to the European Union and British windfall taxes imposed on the energy sector. They also state that their LNG production in the quarter will be hit by prolonged outages at two major plants in Australia.
Credit Suisse Downgrades Next to Underperform from Neutral (8 Buys / 12 Holds / 1 Sell)
Goldman Sachs Downgrades EasyJet to Neutral from Buy (7 Buys / 1 Hold / 4 Sells)
Morgan Stanley Downgrades Diageo to Equal-weight from Overweight (9 Buys / 7 Holds / 1 Sell)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 12th January 2023:
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UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 12th January 2023:
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