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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| CRH PLC | 3,236.5 | 3.4% |
| PERSHING SQUARE HOLDINGS LTD | 2,810.0 | 2.2% |
| RENTOKIL INITIAL PLC | 546.2 | 2.2% |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1,167.0 | 1.7% |
| INFORMA PLC | 560.0 | 1.7% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| COCA-COLA HBC AG-DI | 1975.5 | -3.9% |
| PERSIMMON PLC | 1485.0 | -3.8% |
| B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL SA | 375.3 | -3.6% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 763.8 | -2.9% |
| MONDI PLC | 1454.5 | -2.6% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,480 | 0.1% | 4.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,097 | 0.4% | -6.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,272 | 0.4% | -16.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,479 | 0.6% | 2.7% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,048 | 0.7% | -5.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 93.23 | -1.75% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 100.09 | -1.12% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,757 | 0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 370 | 1.4% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +25 points this morning at 7504. The UK 100 looks set to open modestly higher this morning with investors awaiting Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech on Friday and reacting to news of another increase in the energy price cap in the UK. This follows gains in the US and Asia overnight, At the close, the Dow was up 324 points, or 1%, at 33,292 points. Meanwhile, The S&P gained 1.4% to close at 4,199 and the Nasdaq advanced 1.7%, finishing at 12,639.
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CRH
Grafton Group
Harbour Energy
Hays
Pershing Square Holdings*
None
German Gfk Consumer Confidence Survey
US Core Personal Consumption Expenditures - Price Index
Jackson Hole Symposium
US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index
UK 100 companies paying dividends on 30th August 2022:
Natwest Group (Special Consolidation 13 for 14)
UK 100 companies paying dividends on 1st September 2022:
Admiral Group
Glencore
Endeavour Mining
InterContinental Hotels Group
Antofagasta
UK 250 companies paying dividends on 1st September 2022:
PageGroup
Redde Northgate
Apax Global Alpha
Diversified Energy Company
Centamin
Rathbones Group
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
SDCL Energy Efficiency Income Trust
Quilter
Genuit Group
LondonMetric Property
Clarkson
BlackRock World Mining Trust
Savills
Alliance Trust
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