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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| AVEVA GROUP PLC | 2,533.0 | 4.0% |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC-DI | 9,090.0 | 3.9% |
| JD SPORTS FASHION PLC | 156.1 | 3.5% |
| RIGHTMOVE PLC | 657.0 | 3.5% |
| HARGREAVES LANSDOWN PLC | 1,018.5 | 3.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| STANDARD CHARTERED PLC | 501.2 | -1.7% |
| RIO TINTO PLC | 6132.0 | -1.5% |
| AVIVA PLC | 438.0 | -1.5% |
| M&G PLC | 219.7 | -1.3% |
| NATWEST GROUP PLC | 215.2 | -1.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,559 | 0.3% | 12.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,922 | 0.3% | 5.3% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,518 | 0.5% | -3.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,788 | 0.2% | -7.9% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,528 | 0.2% | 10.2% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 105.10 | 1.76% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 109.38 | 1.72% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,931 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 484 | 1.2% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -4 points at 7555. The UK 100 looks set to slip marginally lower ahed of the open today, ahead of services industry data out today. It was a strong showing on Wall Street yesterday, led higher by growth and tech stocks of the Nasdaq, which jumped 1.9%, ahead of the S&P 500 at 0.8% and Dow Jones at 0.3%. Asian stocks rose to their highest in more than a month on Tuesday,
AstraZeneca have announced positive results for its Etesian phase IIb trial, which met its primary and secondary endpoints.
Crest Nicholson intends to sign a Building Safety Pledge, as they state they will need to record a further exceptional charge in their financial statements. They do not consider this a risk to current or future operations as they reported net cash to be at £252.8m back in Oct-end.
Homeserve states they have made good progress in FY22 as performance accelerates v FY21. They expect their Home Experts division to be profitable for the first time on a FY basis.
Moonpig lifts their FY revenue expectations to £300m on strong trading, as they reiterate their medium-term adjusted EBITDA margin target of 24-25%.
Speedy Hire expects FY results to be in line with internal expectations.
Victrex names Ian Melling as their new CFO, replacing Richard Armitage.
Barclays Downgrades Lloyds to Equal Weight from Overweight (10 Buys / 6 Holds / 0 Sells)
Barclays Downgrades Moneysupermarket.com to Equal Weight from Overweight (9 Buys / 3 Holds / 0 Sells)
Barclays Downgrades Virgin Money to Equal Weight from Overweight (13 Buys / 6 Holds / 1 Sell)
Berenberg Downgrades Vodafone to Hold from Buy (14 Buys / 1 Hold / 0 Sells)
Homeserve
Moonpig
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Japanese Overall Household Spending
EcoFin Meeting
German Markit PMI Composite
EU Markit PMI Composite
US Markit PMI Composite
US Markit Services PMI
US ISM Services PMI
FTSE 100:
Abrdn
Aviva
Lloyds Banking Group
Mondi
Smurfit Kappa Group
Barratt Developments
Howden Joinery Group
Smith (DS)
Smiths Group
Rentokil Initial
Melrose Industries
FTSE 250:
Direct Line Insurance Group
Savills
Vistry Group
TP ICAP Group
Quilter
Man Group
Grafton Group
International Public Partnerships
Domino's Pizza Group
Harbour Energy
Murray International Trust
Rotork
VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund
IMI
F&C Investment Trust
Softcat
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