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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| NMC HEALTH PLC | 857.4 | 9.5% |
| SMITH & NEPHEW PLC | 1,979.0 | 7.3% |
| CENTRICA PLC | 78.0 | 4.1% |
| DS SMITH PLC | 362.7 | 3.4% |
| BARCLAYS PLC | 181.3 | 2.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC | 1709.0 | -7.3% |
| AVEVA GROUP PLC | 4992.0 | -5.6% |
| BURBERRY GROUP PLC | 1920.0 | -4.6% |
| MEGGITT PLC | 612.0 | -4.0% |
| TAYLOR WIMPEY PLC | 230.1 | -2.6% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,437 | -0.3% | 3.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 29,220 | -0.4% | 13.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,664 | -0.9% | 19.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 23,387 | -0.4% | 9.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,139 | -0.3% | 16.3% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 60.93 | -0.02% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 66.10 | 0.00% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,475 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 281 | 0.0% |
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UK 100 called to open -20 at 7416; Asian stocks, U.S. and European futures retreated Friday amid renewed concern about the impact of the coronavirus as cases outside of China increased. Treasuries and gold advanced. Shares in Korea and Hong Kong saw the steepest losses, with more modest declines in Australia. Japanese stocks closed little changed while those in China edged higher. The Nikkei closed down 92 points at 23,386, The Hang Seng traded 291 points lower at 27,318 & the Chinese CSI traded 4 points higher at 4,149. It was also a day in the red for the US yesterday which saw the Dow Jones close at 29,219 (-128 points), the S&P 500 close at 3,373, a fall of 13 points and the Nasdaq close at 9,75- (dropping 66 points)
Halma announces that it has acquired Maxtec for £15.3m
Hammerson has confirmed it has exchanged contracts for the sale of seven retail parks to Orion European Real Estate Fund for £400m with expected net proceeds of £395m
Pearson reported a 6% growth in operating profit to £581m for 2019, slightly below guidance as falling textbook sales in North America offset growth in the rest of the business. Expects to deliver operating profit of £410-490m after excluding the 25% stake in Penguin Random House its selling to Bertelsmann.
Source: Bloomberg, FT, Reuters, DJ Newswires, AlphaTerminal
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