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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 133.1 | 23.7% |
| International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. | 165.4 | 4.3% |
| WPP PLC | 1,051.5 | 3.4% |
| Ocado Group | 638.2 | 3.2% |
| Melrose Industries | 146.9 | 3.1% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Antofagasta PLC | 1582.5 | -5.5% |
| Mondi PLC | 1406.5 | -4.8% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1689.0 | -3.2% |
| Bt Group PLC | 137.2 | -2.6% |
| Astrazeneca PLC | 11210.0 | -2.5% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,908 | -0.3% | 9.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,154 | 0.3% | -0.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,476 | 0.5% | 10.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,416 | 1.1% | 3.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,307 | 0.3% | 4.5% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 75.95 | 0.74% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 82.80 | 0.72% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,825 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 406 | 0.2% |
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The UK 100 called to open +23 points at 7930. The UK 100 looks set to open higher this morning ahead of key US inflation data. This follows on from a bright session Stateside yesterday which saw all major indices end the day in the green. The Dow Jones closed Thursday up 109 points or 0.3%, at 33,154, the Nasdaq added 83 points or 0.7%, to 11,590 and the S&P also improved by 21 points or 0.5% respectively, to close at 4,012.
Cineworld receives non-binding proposals for some or all of the firm’s businesses.
CVS Group report a H1 FY23 pretax profit of £28m, up from £22.9m YoY. They remain confident that FY results will be in line with expectations.
International Consolidated Airlines Group reported a substantially improved financial performance with a FY22 profit of 415m euros, up from a loss of 3.51bn euros YoY. They have agreed to pay 400m euros for the remaining 80% of Air Europa.
Jupiter Fund Management reports that their assets under management fall 17% to £50.2bn. Their pretax profit has fallen 68% to £58m as their 2022 total dividend amounts to 8.4p per share, down from 17.1p.
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Dechra Pharmaceuticals
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Viatris
Zoom Video Communications
UK GfK Consumer Confidence
German Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey
German Gross Domestic Product
US Core Personal Consumption Expenditures - Price Index
US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 2nd March 2023:
Diageo
Hargreaves Lansdown
HSBC Holdings
Berkeley Group Holdings
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 2nd March 2023:
Diversified Energy Company
Safestore Holdings
Capital & Counties Properties
Ashmore Group
Scottish American Investment Company
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
Personal Assets Trust
Ruffer Investment Company
HICL Infrastructure
Genus
Hays
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