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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| British American Tobacco | 4,302.0 | 2.3% |
| InterContinental Hotels Group | 146.0 | 2.2% |
| London Stock Exchange Group | 9,992.0 | 1.8% |
| Sage Group | 902.8 | 1.6% |
| Marks & Spencer Group | 347.0 | 1.6% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Mondi | 748.2 | -11.1% |
| Babcock International Group | 1,131.5 | -4.6% |
| Antofagasta | 3,686.0 | -3.8% |
| AstraZeneca | 13,956.0 | -3.7% |
| JD Sports Fashion | 69.9 | -2.9% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 10,379 | 0.8% | 23.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 49,231 | 0.2% | 22.7% |
| DAX INDEX | 24,129 | 0.1% | 8.5% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 59,716 | 1.0% | 67.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,787 | 0.1% | 10.3% |
| Commodity | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 94.40 | 1.51% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 105.33 | 0.25% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 4,710 | 0.3% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 609 | 0.9% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +11 points at at 10,390. The UK 100 is seen opening flat to marginally higher after Friday’s 0.8% decline. The domestic macro focus is Thursday’s Bank of England decision. Markets are pricing hikes later this year, but consensus still expects Bank Rate unchanged this week at 3.75%.
The S&P and Nasdaq Composite closed at record levels on Friday. The broad market index finished up 0.8% at 7,165.08, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 1.63% to settle at 24,836.60. Both indexes also scored fresh all-time intraday highs. However, the Dow Jones fell 79.61 points, or 0.16%, to end the at 49,230.71.
Asian indexes traded mostly higher on Monday, and Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index hit a fresh record Monday after U.S. stocks ended last week with new highs.
Japan gained 1.8% setting new all-time highs as investors largely brushed off diplomatic setbacks between the US and Iran that pushed oil prices higher. Japan’s 10-year government bond yield rose to around 2.45% on Monday, moving closer to levels not seen in nearly three decades as investors positioned for the upcoming Bank of Japan policy decision. The Japanese yen held steady around 159.3 per dollar on Monday after weakening last week.
China’s Shanghai composite rose 0.15%. The offshore yuan edged higher to around 6.82 per dollar, remaining near its strongest level since February 2023. China’s industrial profits surged 15.5% year on year in Q1 2026, accelerating from a 15.2% gain in the first two months of the year.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.15% as early volatility gave way to cautious sentiment amid rising geopolitical tensions and disruptions in energy markets.
Stocks in Australia fell -0.08%. Australia’s 10-year government bond yield traded around 5%, stuck in a sideways range near multi-decade highs as investors continued to grapple with inflation risks linked to the Middle East war. The Australian dollar rose above $0.71, recovering from a roughly 0.3% loss in the previous week.
In other parts of Asia, Taiwan’s consumer confidence index edged up to 62.47 in April 2026 from March’s more than three-year low of 62.3, pointing to only a modest improvement in sentiment.
GSK subsidiary, TESARO, Inc., confirmed this morning that the Delaware Chancery Court has granted the motion to dismiss filed by AnaptysBio, Inc. against TESARO’s claim for anticipatory breach. The court’s ruling does not address the merits of the principal contractual dispute between the parties and has no impact on TESARO’s remaining claim against AnaptysBio for declaratory judgment. GSK and TESARO are firmly of the view that these allegations are entirely without merit and remain focused on pursuing that claim at trial. TESARO initiated this litigation following allegations made by AnaptysBio that TESARO has not fulfilled certain requirements of the license agreement entered in March 2014 between the parties and that AnaptysBio intends to revoke TESARO’s licence for dostarlimab.
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 30th April 2026:
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IG Group Holdings
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 30th April 2026:
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Elementis
Genuit Group
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Bodycote
Alfa Financial Software Holdings
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