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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| SHELL PLC | 2,037.0 | 3.9% |
| BP PLC | 405.9 | 3.4% |
| BT GROUP PLC | 192.5 | 3.4% |
| AVAST PLC | 620.0 | 2.7% |
| WPP PLC | 1,183.5 | 1.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP | 1846.0 | -4.2% |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 313.4 | -3.9% |
| LLOYDS BANKING GROUP PLC | 51.4 | -3.6% |
| HARGREAVES LANSDOWN PLC | 1307.0 | -3.5% |
| B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL SA | 555.2 | -3.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,516 | -0.2% | 15.8% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,090 | -0.1% | 12.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,100 | -1.8% | 7.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,249 | -0.7% | -5.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,111 | -0.1% | 4.0% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 91.95 | -0.39% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 93.35 | 0.09% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,811 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 446 | -0.7% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +25 points today at 7541. The UK 100 looks set to open the new trading week in the green, with the City largely ignoring Boris Johnson's long-running Whitehall farce, this also follows a mixed start in Asia. Mainland China returned from the lunar new year with a bang, while the Nikkei was hit by the weak performance from the industrials sector. Fridays session on Wall Street saw the S&P and Nasdaq advanced for their fifth positive session in the last six, and the indices also posted their best week since December. The Dow slid 0.06% on Friday, but still managed to post a 1.05% gain for the week. The Russell 2,000 meantime posted its first positive week in five and best week of 2022.
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Taylor Wimpey names Jennie Daly as their new CEO.
Trainline buys back £6.6m of £150m in senior unsecured convertible bonds.
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