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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ANTOFAGASTA PLC | 1,714.5 | 4.8% |
| HIKMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC | 2,392.0 | 2.4% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 102.3 | 2.4% |
| NATIONAL GRID PLC | 864.6 | 1.9% |
| B&M EUROPEAN VALUE RETAIL SA | 601.0 | 1.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| HARGREAVES LANSDOWN PLC | 1539.5 | -6.9% |
| M&G PLC | 187.3 | -5.1% |
| BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO PLC | 2640.0 | -4.0% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1551.0 | -3.6% |
| AVAST PLC | 489.8 | -3.5% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,711 | -0.6% | -9.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 31,613 | 0.3% | 8.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,909 | -1.1% | 1.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 30,236 | -0.2% | 30.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,886 | 0.0% | -3.2% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 61.53 | 0.64% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 64.89 | 0.85% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,783 | 0.4% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 391 | 2.3% |
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UK 100 is called to open -10 points this morning at 6700. Calls for a slightly weaker open come on the morning of the biggest ex-dividend impact so far of 2021, 12.3 points came of the index this morning in the shape of dividends. Crude oil prices rose further overnight due to a recent cold snap in the United States and causing demand to creep higher. Stateside yesterday saw a mixed session on Wall Street. The Dow Jones closed the session higher, rising 90 points or 0.29% to 31,613, whilst the S&P was more or less flat ending the day at 3,931. The Nasdaq, meanwhile, swung to an 82 point or 0.58% decline with a close of 13,965. In Asia, this morning, Japan’s Nikkei closed slightly lower, by 0.19% to trade at 30,236 as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng pulled back 1.13% to 30,732. The Shanghai Composite meanwhile moved up, rising 0.56%.
Barclays reports that they have resumed paying dividends as their annual profit halved to £3.1bn, which was better than expected (analysts’ average forecast of £1.96bn) due to strong performance by its investment bank offsetting provisions against bad loans from the economic fallout of COVID-19. They are to resume paying dividends of 1p per share as well as returning capital via a £700m buyback.
Hays says that their H1 performance has been hurt by the coronavirus pandemic as their pretax profit falls 78% to £21.1m.
Hochschild Mining FY pretax profit falls to $62.9m (from $76.8m previously).
Indivior reports that their Q4 pretax loss has narrowed to $14m (from $42m loss last year).
Moonpig expects their annual revenue to double on high demand for its services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moneysupermarket reports that their 2020 pretax profit is down 24% to £87.8m (from £116m previously).
Primary Health Properties reports that their FY adjusted earnings per share rose 5.5% to 5.8p as their FY net rental income receivable in the year increased by 13.4% to £131.2m (2019: £115.7m).
Smith & Nephew report that their trading profit is down YoY to $683m ($1.17bn previously).
Citigroup Upgrades Aviva to a Buy from Neutral (8 Buys / 9 Holds / 0 Sells)
Goldman Sachs Initiates coverage of Ashtead with a Buy (7 Buys / 8 Holds / 1 Sell)
Morgan Stanley Upgrades SSP Group to Overweight from Equalweight (7 Buys / 8 Holds / 0 Sells)
Barclays
Hays
Indivior
Moneysupermarket.com
Primary Health Properties
Smith & Nephew
NatWest Group
Segro
TBC Bank Group
ECB Monetary Policy Meeting Accounts
BoE’s Saunders speech
US Housing Starts
US Continuing Jobless Claims
Eurozone Consumer Confidence
UK 100:
Imperial Brands
BP
Pershing Square Holdings
GlaxoSmithKline
Royal Dutch Shell A
Royal Dutch Shell B
UK 250:
Murray Income Trust
GCP Student Living
NextEnergy Solar Fund
BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A.
Impax Environmental Markets
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