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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 330.2 | 2.1% |
| NEXT PLC | 7,574.0 | 2.0% |
| BT GROUP PLC | 197.0 | 1.8% |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC-DI | 10,940.0 | 1.6% |
| ABRDN PLC | 242.0 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 1442.0 | -7.6% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1048.5 | -4.2% |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1337.5 | -3.9% |
| ANGLO AMERICAN PLC | 3321.5 | -3.8% |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 149.6 | -3.5% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,466 | -1.2% | 16.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,725 | 1.7% | 15.8% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,319 | -1.3% | 14.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,002 | 1.1% | -2.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,972 | -0.2% | 5.5% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 87.96 | 1.31% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 91.32 | 1.43% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,787 | -0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 431 | -0.1% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +67 points today at 7533. The UK 100 looks set to swing higher this morning after Friday’s 83-point decline. Stocks were mostly higher in Asia this morning, mainland China and South Korean markets remained closed for the Lunar New Year eve, Japan’s Nikkei and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng indices however both gained more than 1%. It was a bumper session on Wall Street Friday, The Dow Jones rose 564.69 points, or 1.7%, to 34,725.47. The blue-chip average posted its best day since Dec. 6 after being down more than 350 points at its lows. The S&P added 2.4% to close at 4,431.85 — its best session since June 2020. The Nasdaq rallied 3.1% to 13,770.57. Overnight the cost of a barrel of crude breached $91 for the first time since 2014.
EasyJet are launching a drive to recruit 1,000 pilots over the next 5 years, with a focus on attracting more women.
Evraz reports that their Q4 2021 crude steel output fell by 0.6% QoQ to 3.384m tonnes.
Pearson fully acquires 20% investee Credly for $200m in total value.
Purplebricks reports a H1 FY22 pretax loss of £12.9m v £4.3m profit in the prior year.
Ryanair reports a Q3 net loss of 96m euros, narrowing from a 321m euro loss YoY. Their Q3 passengers came in at 31.1m up from 8.1m YoY. They forecast their FY traffic numbers to be unchanged at just under 100m passengers, as they state that their FY22 net loss guidance is wider than normal range of 250-400m euros. Q4 traffic required price stimulation to recover load factors due to Omicron.
Vodafone have said they would work with Intel Corp and other silicon vendors on designing its own chip architecture to drive innovation and efficiency in nascent OpenRAN network technology.
Goldman Sachs Upgrades Fevertree Drinks to Neutral from Sell (7 Buys / 6 Holds / 2 sells)
HSBC Upgrades Berkeley Group to Hold from Reduce (8 Buys / 5 Holds / 3 Sells)
Jefferies Downgrades Anglo American to Hold from Buy (9 Buys / 5 Holds / 2 Sells)
Morgan Stanley reinitiates IAG with Overweight (8 Buys / 8 Holds / 0 Sells)
ODDO BHF Upgrades BP to Neutral from Underperform (9 Buys / 8 Holds / 1 Sell)
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