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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC-DI | 13,765.0 | 3.2% |
| RENISHAW PLC | 5,550.0 | 3.2% |
| WEIR GROUP PLC/THE | 1,923.5 | 2.8% |
| ADMIRAL GROUP PLC | 3,237.0 | 2.6% |
| BUNZL PLC | 2,354.0 | 2.2% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ASSOCIATED BRITISH FOODS PLC | 2324.0 | -1.8% |
| VODAFONE GROUP PLC | 130.2 | -1.4% |
| GLENCORE PLC | 317.1 | -1.2% |
| ANGLO AMERICAN PLC | 2963.5 | -1.2% |
| BARCLAYS PLC | 177.1 | -1.2% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,185 | 0.2% | 14.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 34,034 | -0.8% | 30.3% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,711 | -0.1% | 26.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 29,018 | -0.9% | 29.2% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,359 | -0.4% | 22.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 71.85 | -0.42% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 74.07 | -0.43% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,812 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 432 | -1.7% |
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UK 100 is called to open -40 points this morning at 7142. Calls for a lower open today come after the US Federal Reserve outlined raised forecasts and the chances of interest rate hikes last night. Last night on Wall Street the Dow Jones fell 265 points or 0.77% to close at 34,033. The S&P slipped 0.54% to finish the session at 4,223 and the Nasdaq moved 0.24% lower to 14,039. Meanwhile, the small-cap focussed Russell 2000 index lost 0.23% to 2,314. In Asia overnight, Japan’s Nikkei was sliding slightly more than 1% to 28,991 whilst Hong Kong’s Hang Seng was up a little, rising 0.12% to 28,471. The Shanghai Composite was only a slightly lower at 3,514.
Halfords reinstated their dividend and reported a 72% jump in profit as they expect to see further rise in Britons adopting cycling for commute. Their underlying pre-tax profit rose 72% to £96.3m.
Rio Tinto makes interim CFO Peter Cunningham permanent in the role.
Safestore expects FY earnings to be at least in top end of guidance.
Trainline says their Q1 net ticket sales were £334m v £79m YoY as they say sales are at the highest level since the start of the pandemic.
Whitbread reported strong forward booking trends in tourist locations throughout the summer as demand for travel and leisure picked up after Britain eased some COVID-19 curbs in April and May. However, total sales fell 69.8% in Q1 from pre-COVID-19 levels.
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