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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| NEXT PLC | 6,746.0 | 5.6% |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 163.0 | 5.3% |
| JD SPORTS FASHION PLC | 790.6 | 5.2% |
| NATWEST GROUP PLC | 157.9 | 5.0% |
| PERSIMMON PLC | 2,584.0 | 4.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ASTRAZENECA PLC | 7692.0 | -5.7% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1615.0 | -5.2% |
| ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC-A SHS | 1360.2 | -2.5% |
| BHP GROUP PLC | 1940.4 | -2.4% |
| ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC-B SHS | 1309.4 | -2.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,532 | -0.2% | -11.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 29,862 | -0.6% | 6.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,223 | 0.8% | -0.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 26,688 | -0.2% | 11.1% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,631 | -0.4% | -1.6% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 46.69 | -0.64% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 49.97 | -0.64% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,838 | 0.6% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 352 | -0.2% |
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UK 100 called to open -12 points this morning at 6519. Calls for a negative open come after yesterdays announcement that there is an new strain of Covid-19 in the South East of England and data showed COVID-19 infections fell by more than 30% during the second lockdown but have since levelled off according to a large study by Imperial College London and Ipsos MORI. It was a mixed picture overnight on Wall Street, where the Dow Jones closed down nearly 185 points or 0.6% at 29,861.55 and the S&P 500 lost 0.4%, but the tech-driven Nasdaq rose 0.5%. In Asia overnight shares were lower as concerns over a surge in COVID-19 cases in multiple countries offset optimism over the vaccine rollout in the US. China’s industrial production grew 7% year-on-year in November while retail sales increased 5% compared to a year ago. Chinese stocks were lower with the Shanghai composite falling 0.03% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index falling 0.57%. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 slipped 0.17%.
IG Group sees trading surge 66% on upbeat client activity. They see HY net trading revenue to be around £416m as group's active client base has now materially increased in size over the prior year.
JD Sports has acquired Shoe Palace in the USA for $325m.
Ocado have completed the acquisition of Kindred Systems.
Purplebricks reported H1 revenue -6% and gross profit -1% y-o-y. The number of instructions increased 8% to 35,387 with the average revenue per instruction +3%.
PurpleBricks Group
Chemring
Shaftesbury
IG Group
Dixons Carphone
Chinese Retail Sales
UK ILO Unemployment Rate
Japanese Trade Balance
UK 100:
Vodafone Group
Morrison (Wm.) Supermarkets
British American Tobacco
United Utilities Group
UK 250:
Britvic
Sirius Real Estate
Games Workshop Group
Cranswick
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