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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 103.0 | 9.9% |
| WHITBREAD PLC | 3,054.0 | 9.8% |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 158.8 | 9.8% |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 161.2 | 8.5% |
| VODAFONE GROUP PLC | 127.8 | 6.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| OCADO GROUP PLC | 2189.0 | -4.1% |
| RENTOKIL INITIAL PLC | 522.2 | -3.7% |
| FLUTTER ENTERTAINMENT PLC | 13000.0 | -3.5% |
| JUST EAT TAKEAWAY | 8134.0 | -3.3% |
| SEGRO PLC | 896.8 | -3.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,421 | 1.7% | -12.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 29,950 | 1.6% | 7.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,139 | 0.5% | -0.8% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 26,015 | 0.4% | 11.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,498 | 0.2% | -4.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 41.47 | 0.31% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 44.03 | 0.48% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,888 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 322 | -0.2% |
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UK 100 called to open -10 points this morning at 6415. A slightly muted open is expected in the UK, despite markets across the world hitting both all time and 52 week highs overnight, Wall Street’s main indices all closed higher, with the Dow Jones hitting its first all-time high since February, climbing over 470 points or 1.6% to 29,950.44. The broader S&P 500 rose 1.2% and the tech-fuelled Nasdaq Composite added 0.8%. In Japan, the Nikkei gained 0.42% after touching a 52-week high on Monday while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index was flat. China’s Shanghai composite dipped 0.50%.
Aggreko expects FY profit to be at the upper end of previous guidance as key markets are recovering.
EasyJet plunged to a £1.27bn loss in their FY results showing the extent of the impact of the pandemic on the British low-cost airline which had never before made an annual loss in its 25-year history. Their quarterly cash burn improved to £651m from £774m in the previous period.
Experian posted better-than-expected operating profit for H1, boosted by strength in the U.S. mortgage market and demand for its Ascend product.
HomeServe posted a 16% rise in H1 adjusted profit, helped by a surge in demand for home remodelling during COVID-19 lockdowns and they raised their interim dividend by 7%. Adjusted pretax profit rose to £33.1m (2019: £28.6m).
Imperial Brands reported higher FY sales as demand for tobacco offset a drop in its e-cigarette business. They reported FY adjusted group revenue of £7.99bn, up 0.8%. Adjusted EPS were 254.4p, down 5.6%. They forecast low to mid-single digit growth in organic adjusted operating profit for 2021, excluding the impact of the sale of its premium cigar business.
Easyjet
Petra Diamonds
Intermediate Capital Group
Experian
Big Yellow Group
Homeserve
Aggreko
British Land Company
SSE
Halfords
Breedon Group plc
Safestore Holdings
US Retail Sales Control Group
US Retail Sales
BoE’s Governor Bailey speech
US Industrial Production
BoE’s Ramsden speech
Fed’s Williams speech
UK 100:
Smurfit Kappa Group
Scottish Mortgage IT
DCC
B&M European Value Retail S.A.
UK 250:
Genus
Vivo Energy
Scottish American Investment Company
Tate & Lyle
Pershing Square Holdings
Civitas Social Housing
Morgan Advanced Materials
Electrocomponents
Great Portland Estates
Witan Investment Trust
Worldwide Healthcare Trust
NextEnergy Solar Fund
BlackRock World Mining Trust
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