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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| WHITBREAD PLC | 4,386.0 | 4.8% |
| NMC HEALTH PLC | 2,368.0 | 3.4% |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 557.4 | 2.8% |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 882.6 | 2.4% |
| NEXT PLC | 6,640.0 | 2.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| COCA-COLA HBC AG-DI | 2476.0 | -3.1% |
| VODAFONE GROUP PLC | 154.6 | -3.1% |
| HISCOX LTD | 1249.0 | -2.6% |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 624.4 | -1.9% |
| BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO PLC | 2852.0 | -1.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,303 | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 28,005 | 0.8% | 10.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,242 | 0.5% | 16.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 23,417 | 0.5% | 8.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,767 | -0.4% | 18.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 57.96 | 0.42% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 63.45 | 0.24% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,463 | -0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 266 | 0.3% |
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UK 100 called to open flat at 7302; this comes on the back of a very positive trading session to start the week in Asia, both the Nikkei and the Hang Seng starting the week in the green. The Hang Seng +304 points, or 1.16% and the Nikkei +113 points or 0.5%, these movements follow China cutting short term lending rates for the first time since 2015. The US closed off the weeks trading by breaking through 28000 for the first time ever on the Dow Jones, could this be a sign of what is to come in Europe today? Will we see a continuation of positive sentiment filter through? Gold remained under pressure overnight sitting down at $1465 while oil rallied back above $63 once more $63.4 at time of writing.
Diploma FY results with strong double-digit growth in revenues and earnings. Revenue growth +5%, adjusted profit before tax £96.5m, EPS +14% and total dividend per share +14%. They remain confident of further progress in the current financial year as moderately growth will be offset by strong contribution from acquisitions.
GKP have appointed Ian Weatherdon as its CFO.
IQE trading update now expects to deliver revenue of between £136m-142m compared to previous guidance range of £140-160m. As a result a single digit adjusted operating loss is now expected.
Sage Group announce they have entered into an agreement for the sale of its Sage Pay business to Elavon for £232m.
Source: Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, DJ Newswires, AlphaTerminal
HSBC Upgraded to Buy by Jefferies (Bloomberg: 5 buys/ 10 holds/ 12 sells)
BT Downgraded to Underweight by Barclays (Bloomberg: 14 buys/ 6 holds/ 3 sells)
EU Financial stability review
US 3 & 6 Month bond auctions
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