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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 163.1 | 3.4% |
| VODAFONE GROUP PLC | 126.2 | 1.4% |
| AIRTEL AFRICA PLC | 145.2 | 0.8% |
| SEVERN TRENT PLC | 2,909.0 | 0.7% |
| UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC | 1,047.5 | 0.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| AVEVA GROUP PLC | 2362.0 | -4.3% |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 245.6 | -4.0% |
| RS GROUP PLC | 913.0 | -3.5% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 920.4 | -3.4% |
| INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP | 1479.0 | -3.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,481 | -1.5% | 5.7% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,735 | -0.5% | -4.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,211 | -1.6% | -8.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,247 | 0.0% | -2.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,020 | -1.4% | -3.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 121.85 | -0.21% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 123.54 | -0.03% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,843 | -0.6% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 437 | -1.9% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -50 points this morning at 7426. The UK 100 looks set to start the final trading session of the week on the back foot,as investors seem to be continuing to fret about inflation and the medicine required to combat it. This follows on from a difficult session on Wall Street yesterday. The Dow Jones tumbled 638 points to 32,273 and the S&P 500 slumped 98 points to 4,018 ahead of the release of US inflation and core inflation data today. In Asia this morning, Chinese inflation data came in slightly better than expected, the Hang Seng index is trading 123 points lower at 21,746 but the Shanghai Composite is 18 points better at 3,256. Elsewhere in Asia, the Nikkei 225 is 420 points lower in Tokyo at 27,826.
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