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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Anglo American PLC | 3,509.0 | 5.7% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1,913.0 | 4.3% |
| Smurfit Kappa Group PLC | 3,346.0 | 3.0% |
| Entain PLC | 1,415.0 | 3.0% |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1,655.0 | 2.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rentokil Initial PLC | 501.4 | -3.7% |
| Dcc PLC | 4,268.0 | -1.5% |
| Compass Group PLC | 1,909.0 | -1.3% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 697.8 | -1.1% |
| Pershing Square Holdings LTD | 2,900.0 | -1.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,699 | 0.9% | 2.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,631 | 2.1% | -7.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,610 | 1.2% | -8.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 25,974 | 0.6% | -8.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,151 | 0.6% | -4.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 75.16 | 1.88% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 79.97 | 1.78% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,875 | 0.5% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 396 | 1.3% |
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The UK 100 called to open +19 points at 7718. The UK 100 looks set to continue last weeks strong start to the year, at the open on Monday boosted by strong gains in the US on Friday and hopes that the reopening in China will give a boost to global economic growth. At Friday's close, US stocks were firmly in the green, with the S&P closed 2.8% higher at 3,895, the Nasdaq was up 2.6% at 10.569 and the Dow also gained 2.1% to close at 33,631 points.
Airtel Africa buys 100MHz of spectrum in 3500MHz 4G and 5G band for $316.7m, which will allow network expansion and 5G rollout.
AstraZeneca buys CinCor Pharma for $26 per share to strengthen their cardiorenal pipeline. They state that the upfront cash portion of consideration represents value of $1.31bn, with a maximum cost of $1.8bn.
Vodafone says they have entered into binding terms for the sale of Vodafone Hungary and are set to receive 1.7bn euros in cash for the sale, which will be used to pay down debt.
CitiGroup Upgrades BT Group to Buy from Neutral (8 Buys / 7 Holds / 2 Sells)
Peel Hunt Upgrades British Land to Buy (4 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
Peel Hunt Upgrades Hammerson to Hold (3 Buys / 7 Holds / 2 Sells)
Peel Hunt Upgrades Land Securities to Buy (5 Buys / 10 Holds / 0 Sells)
RBC Downgrades Fresnillo to Sector Perform from Outperform (1 Buy / 12 Holds / 0 Sells)
RPT/Morgan Stanley Upgrades National Grid to Overweight from Equal-weight (4 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
UBS Downgrades Ashmore Group to Neutral from Buy (3 Buys / 2 Holds / 2 Sells)
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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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