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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Bunzl PLC | 2,506 | 5.12% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 1,741 | 3.08% |
| Babcock International Group PLC | 1,021 | 2.1% |
| Bt Group PLC | 216.5 | 1.6% |
| Halma PLC | 3,312 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Kingfisher PLC | 269 | -4.34% |
| Convatec Group PLC | 233 | -4.04% |
| Associated British Foods PLC | 2,222 | -3.98% |
| Dcc PLC | 4672 | -3.47% |
| Diageo PLC | 2060 | -2.88% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 9,265.80 | -0.6% | 11.03% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 45,418.07 | 0.3% | 10.10% |
| DAX INDEX | 24,152.87 | -0.50% | 29.29% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 42,520.27 | 0.30% | 11.01% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,960.50 | 0.28% | 11.02% |
| Copper (Comex) | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 63.11 | -0.22% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 67.08 | -0.21% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 3,380 | -0.41% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 451.65 | -0.36% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +45 points at 9310. Stocks in London are set to open higher on Wednesday. The S&P closed higher on Tuesday as Wall Street looked beyond President Donald Trump’s removal of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook from the central bank’s board and awaited quarterly figures from chip giant Nvidia. The broad market S&P settled up 0.41% at 6,465.94. The tech-heavy Nasdaq also added 0.44% to end the day at 21,544.27. The blue-chip Dow Jones added 135.60 points, or 0.30%, to finish at 45,418.07. In Asia on Wednesday, the Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo was up 0.2%. In China, the Shanghai Composite was down 0.2%, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was down 0.4%. The S&P/ASX 200 in Sydney closed up 0.2%.
Prudential posted a 7% year-on-year (YoY) increase in adjusted operating profit after tax to US$1.37b for the first half of 2025 (H1 2025). Meanwhile, IFRS profit after tax was at US$1.34b. Earnings per share rose 12% to 49.3 cents. New business profit on a traditional embedded value basis grew 12% to US$1.26b, whilst operating free surplus from in-force insurance and asset management increased 14% to US$1.56b. Between January and June, Prudential repurchased 72 million shares worth US$711m and expects to complete the current programme by year end. The first interim dividend was lifted 13% to 7.71 cents per share. Looking ahead, the company plans annual dividend growth of more than 10% from 2025 to 2027, with additional buybacks of US$500m in 2026 and US$600m in 2027.
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