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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 167.2 | 3.8% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1,088.5 | 3.6% |
| ANGLO AMERICAN PLC | 3,489.5 | 3.2% |
| INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS GROU | 4,982.0 | 2.4% |
| ST JAMES’S PLACE PLC | 1,555.0 | 2.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 1225.0 | -12.9% |
| AIRTEL AFRICA PLC | 141.7 | -8.6% |
| SHELL PLC | 1996.0 | -3.2% |
| LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP | 6976.0 | -3.0% |
| CRODA INTERNATIONAL PLC | 7434.0 | -2.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,567 | -0.1% | 15.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 35,463 | 1.1% | 13.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,242 | 0.2% | 8.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,580 | 1.1% | -6.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,268 | 1.1% | 6.6% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 89.16 | -0.22% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 90.59 | -0.21% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,827 | 0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 443 | -0.7% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +50 points today at 7615. The UK’s blue-chip index is seen starting on front foot as global stock markets rally, London looks set to follow rising stock prices in America and Asia. On Wall Street yesterday it was an all green picture, The Dow Jones marked a 371 point, or 1.06%, rise to close Tuesday’s session at 35,462. Meanwhile, the S&P added 0.84% to finish at 4,521 and the Nasdaq gained 1.28% to 14,194. America’s small-cap focussed Russell 2000 index was also higher, rising 1.63%, to 2,045. In Asia this morning, Japan’s Nikkei advanced 1.08% to 27,579 whilst Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose by nearly 2% to 24,801. The Shanghai at the same time notched up 0.9% to 3,483.
Barratt Developments reported a near 1% rise in HY interim profit, boosted by persistent housing demand as homebuyers sought larger homes suited for remote working and benefited from low mortgage rates. Pretax profit for the six months ending Dec 31st came in at £432.6m (compared with £430.2m a year earlier).
Dunelm reported a record pretax profit in H1 citing strong sales growth and continued outperformance of the market in homeware and furniture. They posted a pretax profit of £140.8m (+25.3%), in line with its forecast of around £140m.
GlaxoSmithKline racked up £1.4bn in COVID-related sales in 2021 as they beat quarterly forecasts in its first earnings report since rejecting a bid from Unilever for its consumer arm. They expect their pandemic-related sales in 2022 to be at similar levels to 2021, but that these would contribute less profit due to lower margins on its antibody treatment.
PZ Cussons reported a H1 pretax profit of £35.1m, +8.3% YoY. They expect to deliver a FY adjusted pretax profit in the range of consensus estimates.
Smurfit Kappa reports a FY21 pretax profit of 913m Euros, +22% YoY from 748m Euros in FY20. Their final dividend also increased 10% to EUR0.96 per share.
Barclays Downgrades Boohoo to Underweight from Equal Weight (10 Buys / 5 Holds / 2 Sells)
JP Morgan Downgrades Rightmove to Underweight from Neutral (4 Buys / 5 Holds / 6 Sells)
Barratt Developments
Dunelm Group
GlaxoSmithKline
Grainger
PZ Cussons
Smurfit Kappa Group
Ashmore Group
AstraZeneca
Beazley
RELX
Redrow
Royal Mail Group
Tate & Lyle
Unilever
UK BRC Like-For-Like Retail Sales
German Trade Balance s.a.
BoC's Governor Macklem speech
FTSE 100:
FTSE 250:
Aberforth Smaller Companies Trust
Greencoat UK Wind
Endeavour Mining
LXi REIT
UK Commercial Property REIT
Henderson Smaller Cos Inv Tst
Virgin Money UK
ICG Enterprise Trust
BMO Commercial Property Trust
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