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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Centrica PLC | 143.7 | 5.7% |
| Lloyds Banking Group PLC | 66.1 | 5.3% |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,464.5 | 4.0% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1,807.0 | 3.8% |
| Taylor Wimpey PLC | 115.1 | 1.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| BAE Systems PLC | 1,293.5 | -3.8% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 623.8 | -2.9% |
| BP PLC | 452.0 | -2.5% |
| Rentokil Initial PLC | 406.6 | -2.3% |
| Barclays PLC | 299.3 | -2.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,663 | -0.6% | 12.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 44,107 | -1.2% | 14.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 22,315 | -0.5% | 30.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 38,678 | -1.2% | 0.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,323 | -1.1% | 9.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 72.57 | 0.44% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 76.48 | 0.58% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 2,937 | 0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 466 | 1.0% |
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The UK 100 called to open -13 points at 8,649. The UK 100 looks set to start the final session of the week on the back foot, after retail sales volumes staged a bigger-than-expected rebound in January, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed today. The month-on-month growth rate of 1.7% compared with the downwardly revised figure of 0.6% in December and City forecasts of about 0.3%.
Stocks retreated Stateside yesterday following two days of all-time highs for the S&P 500 as investors dumped some popular names in the wake of a lackluster forecast from retail giant Walmart that prompted questions about the outlook of the economy. The Dow Jones lost 450.94 points, or 1.01%, to end at 44,176.65. The S&P shed 0.43% and closed at 6,117.52, and the Nasdaq dipped 0.47% and closed at 19,962.36. Dow member Walmart dropped 6.5% after the company said it expects fiscal-year sales to grow between 3% and 4%. The company’s fiscal 2026 earnings outlook, meanwhile, was below analysts’ expectations. The weak guidance overshadowed fiscal fourth-quarter earnings that topped estimates
Standard Chartered announced a new $1.5 billion share buyback after reporting its annual profit rose 18% on the back of record growth in its wealth business and a strong performance of its markets division. The Asia, Africa and Middle East-focused bank is doubling down on its mainstay wealth management and markets business, even as an uncertain global growth outlook and a divergent interest rate policy are expected to cast a cloud over Western banks in the near term. The London-based lender reported on Friday pretax profit for 2024 of $6 billion, up from $5.1 billion the year before and slightly below the $6.2 billion average of analysts' forecasts as compiled by the bank. They said it acquired 265,000 new wealthy clients in 2024, who in total brought in $44 billion of new money, which is 61% higher than a year earlier. It also announced on Friday a final dividend of 28 cents per share.
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