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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Next PLC | 6,742.0 | 4.7% |
| Associated British Foods PLC | 1,982.1 | 2.9% |
| Frasers Group PLC | 710.2 | 1.9% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 687.8 | 1.9% |
| Entain PLC | 1,240.4 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Ocado Group PLC | 440.7 | -4.6% |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC | 10,781.6 | -3.0% |
| Weir Group PLC | 1,764.5 | -2.7% |
| Johnson Matthey PLC | 1,699.3 | -2.3% |
| Croda International PLC | 5,406.5 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,588 | -0.7% | 8.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,299 | -0.3% | 14.8% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,201 | -1.0% | 23.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 33,370 | -1.0% | 29.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,295 | 0.6% | 13.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 71.29 | -0.68% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 76.09 | -0.68% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,951 | -0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 387 | -0.6% |
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The UK 100 called to open -8 points at 7575. The UK 100 looks set to open marginally lower this morning following a subdued session yesterday in London. US markets reopen today following the Juneteenth bank holiday. Asian markets were lower this morning amid disappointment that the change in the five-year lending rate used as a benchmark in mortgages was not the 0.15% forecast.
ABRDN sells 21.8m shares in HDFC Asset Management unit netting £337m from the share sale.
Airtel Africa expects $1.5m negative impact from 1% devaluation of Nigerian naira.
Lookers agrees to all-cash takeover from Global Auto Holdings at 120p per share which is a 35% premium to Monday’s closing price.
Saga says FY underlying profit is to be well ahead of prior year. They state that insurance market conditions in motor is weighing on group fortunes.
JP Morgan places Ocado on “negative catalyst watch” (6 Buys / 7 Holds / 2 Sells)
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FedEx
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Berkeley Group Holdings
Liontrust Asset Management
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PBoC Interest Rate Decision
Japanese Industrial Production
German Producer Price Index
US Building Permits
US Housing Starts
Japanese BoJ Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 22nd June 2023:
3i Group
Airtel Africa
British Land Company
Experian
United Utilities Group
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 22nd June 2023:
Mercantile Investment Trust
Tate & Lyle
discoverIE Group
MITIE Group
Templeton Emerging Markets IT
Personal Assets Trust
abrdn Private Equity Opportunities Trust
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