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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC-DI | 11,715.0 | 3.3% |
| ENTAIN PLC | 1,692.0 | 1.9% |
| DECHRA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC | 5,285.0 | 1.6% |
| JD SPORTS FASHION PLC | 218.4 | 1.5% |
| WHITBREAD PLC | 3,012.0 | 1.5% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ASHTEAD GROUP PLC | 6008.0 | -1.8% |
| BERKELEY GROUP HOLDINGS/THE | 4824.0 | -1.5% |
| LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP | 6960.0 | -1.5% |
| ROYAL MAIL PLC | 515.0 | -1.2% |
| DIAGEO PLC | 4046.5 | -1.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,403 | -0.2% | 12.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 36,398 | -0.3% | 19.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,885 | 0.2% | 15.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,792 | -0.4% | 4.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,513 | 0.1% | 14.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 73.79 | 1.42% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 76.68 | 1.85% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,809 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 439 | 0.0% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -30 points today at 7370. The UK 100 looks set to open slightly lower this morning to end out 2021, on what is a shorter trading day. On Wall Street yesterday all three of the major averages faded into the close in regular trading Thursday, after trading slightly higher throughout the rest of the session. The Dow shed about 90 points, or 0.3%, to snap a six-day win streak. The S&P 500 dipped 0.3%, falling less than 1% from its record, which it hit in the previous session. And the Nasdaq Composite lost 0.2%. In Asia this morning, markets were mixed, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index jumped 1.2% in New Year’s Eve trading and the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.4%. Sydney’s S&P/ASX 200 lost 0.8% as the number of new coronavirus cases surged.
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