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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 982.8 | 6.4% |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 145.6 | 4.8% |
| GLENCORE PLC | 248.7 | 4.6% |
| ANGLO AMERICAN PLC | 2,446.0 | 3.9% |
| M&G PLC | 184.1 | 3.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| PRUDENTIAL PLC | 1236.0 | -7.8% |
| PEARSON PLC | 800.0 | -7.8% |
| IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC | 1519.0 | -3.7% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 2782.0 | -3.5% |
| SAGE GROUP PLC/THE | 600.2 | -3.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,526 | -0.6% | -12.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 30,603 | 1.0% | 6.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,666 | 0.3% | 2.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,663 | -1.9% | 18.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,607 | -0.6% | -6.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 52.24 | -0.19% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 55.53 | 0.00% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,850 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 354 | -1.0% |
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UK 100 called to open -55 points this morning at 6470. Calls for a negative open today come on the back of a positive session in the US yesterday, with European markets instead seemingly taking a lead from Asia. Once again focus yesterday was back on the hot topic of global markets at the moment the reddit boys taking on the big hedge funds. American airlines was the latest share to be pushed higher, which spiked 31% at one point during trading yesterday. The Dow Jones traded 300 points to close at 30,603, while the S&P 500 added 37 points to 3,787. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was weighed down by some of its tech heavyweights, Apple and Tesla both retreated after Wednesday night trading updates, looked less sprightly in comparison, however still manged to eek out a gain of 66 points to close at 13,337. It was a less positive session in Asia overnight, Japan’s Nikkei 225 dropped 1.89% while the Shanghai composite in China slipped 1.62%, and in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index dipped 0.92%.
Boohoo confirms they are in discussions with Arcadia's administrators over purchasing their assets including Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton.
Card Factory says they remain in constructive discussions with banks and that further extensions are possible.
CVS Group expects to post H1 adjusted EBITDA of around £45.1m, with their total sales up 9.4% to £245.6m (2020: £244.5m).
Evraz reports Q4 total crude steel production of 3.5m tonnes v 3.2m tonnes produced in Q3.
Lookers swings to a loss in H1 of £50m (2020: £19.6m profit). They have also named Duncan McPhee as their COO.
Polymetal reports that their Q4 revenue was up 31% YoY to $846m (2020: $643m). Their 2020 gold production increased 6% to 1.4m ounces, silver production was down 16% to 4.4m ounces.
Barclays Upgrades Daily Mail to Equalweight from Underweight (2 Buys / 4 Holds / 1 Sell)
Berenberg Downgrades Ibstock to Hold from Buy (4 Buys / 7 Holds / 0 Sells)
Berenberg Downgrades Barratt Developments to Hold from Buy (11 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
Berenberg Upgrades Howden Joinery to Buy from Hold (4 Buys / 6 Holds / 0 Sells)
Davy Upgrades CRH to Outperform from Neutral (5 Buys / 2 Holds / 0 Sells)
Evraz
Diageo
Paragon Banking Group
Hargreaves Lansdown
German Gross Domestic Product
US Personal Income
UK 100:
None
UK 250:
Schroder Oriental Income Fund
GCP Infrastructure Investments
TI Fluid Systems
FDM Group (Holdings)
Foresight Solar Fund
Edinburgh Investment Trust
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