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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Hargreaves Lansdown PLC | 858.4 | 3.2% |
| Entain PLC | 1,300.0 | 1.6% |
| Ashtead Group PLC | 5,354.0 | 1.3% |
| Abrdn PLC | 217.6 | 1.2% |
| Kingfisher PLC | 241.8 | 1.0% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Vodafone Group PLC | 74.1 | -5.6% |
| Sainsbury (J) PLC | 267.4 | -3.8% |
| Wpp PLC | 863.4 | -2.6% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 2,032.0 | -2.4% |
| Johnson Matthey PLC | 1,757.2 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,602 | -0.3% | 0.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,748 | 0.3% | 2.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,999 | 0.2% | 10.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 31,641 | -0.9% | 12.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,100 | -0.3% | 1.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 71.87 | -0.91% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 76.41 | -0.70% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,968 | 1.5% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 380 | 1.0% |
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The UK 100 called to open +12 points at 7611. The UK 100 is expected to open higher on Friday after strong gains in the US as a rise in weekly jobless claims calmed nerves that the Federal Reserve might make a surprise rate rise next week. the Dow Jones closed up 168.59 points, or 0.5%, to trade at 33,833.61. The S&P closed 26.41 points, or 0.6% higher, at 4,293.93. The Nasdaq was also up, adding 133.63 points, or 1.0%, to settle at 13,238.52. A weaker than expected inflation reading in China should support sentiment with the consumer price index rising 0.2% on-year, below forecasts for growth of 0.3%. Asian markets were higher. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 was up 1.7%. In China, the Shanghai Composite rose 0.1%, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.5%.
AstraZeneca announces deal with Quell Therapeutics to develop T-regulatory cell therapies for which they will pay Quell $85m upfront and they will be eligible to receive over $2bn for further development from Astra.
Brookfield offers 400p in cash per Network International share for a total value of £2.2bn.
Croda International produces a pretax profit of £143m for the first five months of the year as they state that sales are up in Consumer Care compared to final quarter of 2022. They expect their FY pretax profit to be between £370-400m.
Diageo appoints Debra Crew as their CEO after Ivan Menezes’ recent death.
S4 Capital says forecasts for 2023 and 2024 global GDP growth have been continuously reduced to approximately 2-2.5%.
Barclays Upgrades Hammerson to Overweight from Underweight (3 Buys / 5 Holds / 2 Sells)
Stifel Upgrades B&M to Buy from Hold (6 Buys / 8 Holds / 2 Sells)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 15th June 2023:
Land Securities Group
RS Group
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 15th June 2023:
Intermediate Capital Group
Digital 9 Infrastructure
Pets At Home Group
Computacenter
3i Infrastructure
Warehouse REIT
LXi REIT
AVI Global Trust
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
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