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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 427.8 | 4.2% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 99.9 | 4.0% |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1,636.0 | 2.8% |
| GLENCORE PLC | 288.0 | 2.0% |
| PRUDENTIAL PLC | 1,396.0 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| DS SMITH PLC | 396.0 | -3.4% |
| SSE PLC | 1418.5 | -3.0% |
| PENNON GROUP PLC | 918.0 | -2.5% |
| UNITED UTILITIES GROUP PLC | 932.2 | -2.3% |
| SEVERN TRENT PLC | 2327.0 | -2.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,749 | -0.1% | -9.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 31,523 | 0.2% | 7.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 14,065 | -0.3% | 2.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 30,292 | -0.6% | 28.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,885 | -0.5% | -3.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 60.29 | 0.40% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 63.66 | 0.49% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,790 | -0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 382 | -0.3% |
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UK 100 is called to open +10 points this morning at 6758. Calls for a positive open come as traders digest this mornings UK inflation data, which shows a rise again in the UK. The consumer prices index rose to an annual rate of 0.7% in January, up from 0.6% in December. That’s a little higher than economists had expected. It was a mixed performance for US markets yesterday, with the Dow Jones closing up 0.2% at a record high of 31,522 while the S&P dropped 0.06% to 3,932 and the Nasdaq fell 0.34% to 14,047. The picture was also mixed in Asia this morning, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 falling 0.58% while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up 0.99%, having bounced from an early fall.
British American Tobacco reports that their FY pretax profit is up to £8.67bn (£7.91bn previously) and they expect 2021 to have a mid-single figure adjusted EPS rise.
Hargreaves Lansdown co-founder Peter Hargreaves completes the sale of 19.5m shares, raising £300m in total.
Imperial Brands hires Lukas Paravicini as their new CFO from the 5th of August 2021.
Plus 500 raises their final dividend payout by 44% to 54.22 US cents per share after announcing record levels of new and active customers in 2020 and more than doubling their revenues to $872.5m.
Rio Tinto posted a 20% jump in annual underlying earnings to $12.45bn, beating analysts’ estimates of $12.02bn. They also declared a final dividend of $3.09 per share (Up from 2019 $2.31 per share).
TP ICAP are to issue 225.3m shares at 140p in a rights issue.
Jefferies Upgrades Shaftesbury to a Buy from Hold (1 Buy / 7 Holds / 1 Sell)
Jefferies Upgrades Capital & Counties to a Buy from Hold (6 Buys / 2 Holds / 1 Sell)
British American Tobacco
Hochschild Mining
Plus500
Rio Tinto
Barclays
Hays
Indivior
Moneysupermarket.com
Primary Health Properties
Smith & Nephew
UK Consumer Price Index
US Retail Sales
US FOMC Minutes
UK Retail Price Index
US Producer Price Index ex Food & Energy
BoE’s Ramsden speech
UK 100:
Imperial Brands
BP
Pershing Square Holdings
GlaxoSmithKline
Royal Dutch Shell A
Royal Dutch Shell B
UK 250:
Murray Income Trust
GCP Student Living
NextEnergy Solar Fund
BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A.
Impax Environmental Markets
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