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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 159.9 | 2.3% |
| FRESNILLO PLC | 892.8 | 1.7% |
| RENTOKIL INITIAL PLC | 584.0 | 1.4% |
| PEARSON PLC | 613.2 | 1.3% |
| BT GROUP PLC | 169.6 | 0.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 338.3 | -3.2% |
| ELECTROCOMPONENTS PLC | 1206.0 | -2.3% |
| NATIONAL GRID PLC | 1059.8 | -1.8% |
| BUNZL PLC | 2885.0 | -1.8% |
| ROYAL MAIL PLC | 506.0 | -1.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,385 | -0.3% | 14.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 36,585 | 0.7% | 19.5% |
| DAX INDEX | 16,021 | 0.9% | 16.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,792 | -0.4% | 4.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,494 | 0.7% | 13.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 76.08 | 1.16% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 78.99 | 1.56% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,803 | 0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 442 | -0.9% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +73 points today at 7457. The UK 100 looks set to start the new year with a bang, playing catch-up with Wall Street after new records were set overnight, including Apple becoming the world’s first $3trn company. US Markets were open yesterday, And started the year in strong fashion, the Dow Jones and S&P 500 both ascending to record highs, up 0.7% and 0.6% respectively. The Nasdaq jumped 1.2% and the small cap index, the Russell 2000, also climbed 1.2%. The picture in Asia this morning was more mixed, China’s Shanghai Composite slipped 0.28% and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index fell 0.08%. The Nikkei in Japan jumped 1.77% while South Korea’s Kospi remained near the flat line.
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