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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Babcock International Group PLC | 1,047.0 | 5.2% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 1,340.0 | 2.6% |
| BAE Systems PLC | 1,790.5 | 1.7% |
| British American Tobacco PLC | 4,260.0 | 1.5% |
| Beazley PLC | 789.0 | 1.4% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Glencore PLC | 288.3 | -3.8% |
| Centrica PLC | 162.9 | -2.4% |
| Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC | 3,712.0 | -2.1% |
| Anglo American PLC | 2,131.0 | -1.8% |
| Mondi PLC | 1,053.0 | -1.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 9,158 | 0.2% | 9.6% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 44,912 | -0.1% | 9.8% |
| DAX INDEX | 24,315 | -0.2% | 32.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 43,626 | -0.2% | 16.8% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,897 | -0.7% | 11.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 63.00 | -0.66% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 66.16 | -0.66% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 3,338 | 0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 453 | -0.2% |
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The UK 100 called to open +5 points this morning at 9,162. The UK 100 looks set to open marginally higher this morning.
Asian markets were little changed Tuesday after Wall Street treaded water and US President Donald Trump held what he called “very good” talks with Ukrainian and European leaders on ending the three-year war. Hopes for a breakthrough rose after Trump said he spoke by phone with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, whom he met in Alaska last week, after hosting the Europeans and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul were down slightly, while Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore were in the green.
In the US yesterday, the major averages ended Monday near flat after posting a winning week. Traders awaited key retail earnings and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s annual speech at the central bank’s Jackson Hole summit. The Dow Jones dropped 34.30 points, or 0.08%, to close at 44,911.82. The S& closed down 0.01% and ended at 6,449.15, while the Nasdaq inched up 0.03% to settle at 21,629.77. Shares of Meta Platforms and Microsoft dropped about 2.3% and 0.6%, weighing on the broader market.
BHP today cut its final dividend by 18% to 60 US cents a share after reporting a 26% decline in annual underlying profit to $10.16 billion. Revenue slipped 8% to $51.3 billion, primarily due to lower iron ore and coal prices in the year to 30 June. The top-line decline came despite record copper and iron ore production volumes and increased steelmaking coal output. The dividend represents 60% of underlying profit and brings the total returned to shareholders since January 2020 to $59 billion. BHP’s Australian-listed shares rose 2% following the publication of the results.
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