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| Friday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| HALEON PLC | 266.3 | 1.0% |
| PERSIMMON PLC | 1,497.5 | 0.8% |
| AVEVA GROUP PLC | 2,790.0 | 0.8% |
| MEGGITT PLC | 798.0 | 0.8% |
| CENTRICA PLC | 82.0 | 0.6% |
| Friday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROU | 4750.0 | -4.4% |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 731.2 | -4.3% |
| JD SPORTS FASHION PLC | 109.7 | -3.7% |
| RELX PLC | 2303.0 | -3.4% |
| EXPERIAN PLC | 2683.0 | -3.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,427 | -0.7% | 3.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,099 | -0.6% | -9.3% |
| DAX INDEX | 12,893 | -0.6% | -18.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,196 | 1.1% | 1.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,998 | 0.5% | -6.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 96.84 | -0.18% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 104.45 | -0.61% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,734 | -0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 359 | -0.7% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -17 points this morning at 7410. The UK 100 looks set to fall once again this morning after the bank holiday weekend, reflecting hefty falls in the US in the past two sessions following Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Powell’s comments on Friday. The Dow closed Monday down 184 points, 0.6%, at 32,099, the Nasdaq Composite slid 124 points, 1%, to 12,018 and the S&P 500 fell 27 points, 0.7%, to 4,031. The benchmarks struggled again on Monday after a massive selloff on Friday, driven by fears that the Federal Reserve will continue to aggressively raise interest rates.
Biffa extends their ECP deadline for firm takeover offer intention to September 27th .
BT & Openreach staff are staging fresh strikes over pay.
Bunzl reports that their pretax profit has risen to £296.6m (2021: £275.7m) as they increased their dividend by 4.6% to 66.2p. Their performance was enabled by flexibility of their global supply chains as they expect to maintain track record of value creation. Bunzl upgraded their 2022 margin guidance compared to pre-close statement as they expect their operating margin in 2022 to be higher than historical levels.
Dechra Pharmaceuticals buys Med-Pharmex for $260m on debt-free, cash-free basis.
Old mutual reports that their H1 pretax profit fell sharply to ZAR 5.12bn from ZAR 7.09bn.
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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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