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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Haleon PLC | 329.5 | 3.5% |
| B&M European Value Retail S.A. | 493.5 | 3.4% |
| Smith & Nephew PLC | 1,188.0 | 3.4% |
| Shell PLC | 2,414.0 | 3.3% |
| Astrazeneca PLC | 10,578.0 | 3.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Vodafone Group PLC | 91.1 | -3.9% |
| Segro PLC | 885.0 | -3.8% |
| Centrica PLC | 95.3 | -3.0% |
| Centrica PLC | 1,487.5 | -2.8% |
| Barratt Developments PLC | 472.7 | -2.4% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,902 | 1.0% | 5.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,926 | -0.4% | -3.3% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,476 | -0.2% | 2.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,694 | 0.7% | 0.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,539 | -0.3% | 5.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 73.86 | 0.64% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 80.60 | 0.83% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,875 | 0.6% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 406 | 0.1% |
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The UK 100 called to open -34 points at 7867. The UK 100 looks set to open lower this morning and retreat from record highs set of Friday. Concerns over interest rates saw US markets lose steam at the close on Friday with the Dow Jones 0.4% lower at 33,926 points, the S&P 500 down 1% at 4,136 and the Nasdaq losing 1.6% at 12,007.
Croda International buys Solus Biotech for £232m on a debt-free, cash-free basis.
Diageo launches a partial tender offer to increase its stake in East African breweries.
JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin raises his stake to 23.9% from 21.9% as of last week.
Playtech goes to the English courts over disagreement with customer Calipay.
Barclays Downgrades NatWest to Equal weight from Overweight (13 Buys / 4 Holds / 0 Sells)
Barclays Downgrades Virgin Money to Equal weight from Overweight (10 Buys / 9 Holds / 1 Sell)
Barclays Upgrades Lloyds to Overweight from Equal weight (12 Buys / 5 Holds / 1 Sell)
Bernstein Upgrades Diageo to Outperform from Market Perform (9 Buys / 8 Holds / 1 Sell)
Credit Suisse Downgrades Hargreaves Lansdown to Underperform from Neutral (6 Buys / 9 Holds / 3 Sells)
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US
Activision Blizzard
Take-Two Interactive Software
UK
BP
SSE
US
Gilead Sciences
Illumina
German Factory Orders s.a.
BoE's Mann speech
EU Retail Sales
German Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices
BoE's Mann speech
Japanese Overall Household Spending
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 2nd February 2023:
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UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 2nd February 2023:
Virgin Money UK
Greencoat UK Wind
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst
GCP Infrastructure Investments
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust
Impax Environmental Markets
UK Commercial Property REIT
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
Target Healthcare REIT
Renewables Infrastructure Group
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