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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ITV PLC | 77.6 | 6.9% |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 153.8 | 6.8% |
| ROYAL MAIL PLC | 358.3 | 5.8% |
| SMITH & NEPHEW PLC | 1,299.5 | 4.4% |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 128.7 | 3.7% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ANGLO AMERICAN PLC | 3695.5 | -8.4% |
| GLENCORE PLC | 490.6 | -3.6% |
| ENDEAVOUR MINING PLC | 2024.0 | -2.1% |
| ENTAIN PLC | 1534.0 | -2.0% |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1515.0 | -1.9% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,630 | 0.0% | 10.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,321 | 0.5% | 3.6% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,517 | 1.1% | -4.6% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,553 | 1.2% | -5.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,593 | 0.3% | 7.6% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 103.89 | 1.66% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 108.26 | 1.37% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,944 | -0.7% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 471 | 0.7% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -75 points at 7550. A weaker start is expected today for the UK 100, this follows a difficult day on Wall Street yesterday after Fed chair Jay Powell laid out the case for a possible 0.5% rate hike at next month's May meeting of the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones gave up 368 points or 1.05% to close at 34,792 whilst the S&P lost 1.48% finishing at 4,393. At the same time, the Nasdaq shed just over 2% to 13,174 and the small-cap Russell 2000 was 2.29% lower at 1,991. In Asia this morning, Japan’s Nikkei moved down 1.63% to 27,103 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dipped just 0.11% to 20,660. The Shanghai Composite edged 0.5% higher to 3,095.
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IMF Meeting
UK Retail Sales
German S&P Global/BME Composite PMI
EU S&P Global Composite PMI
UK S&P Global/CIPS Services PMI
US S&P Global Composite PMI
BoE's Governor Bailey speech
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Reckitt Benckiser Group
RELX
London Stock Exchange Group
Rightmove
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Morgan Sindall Group
Morgan Advanced Materials
Derwent London
Coats Group
Drax Group
City of London Investment Trust
4imprint Group
Schroder Oriental Income Fund
Bankers Investment Trust
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