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Morning Report - 18 November 2020

Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders Price (p) % Chg
INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP 1,689.0 7.9%
IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC 1,505.5 7.3%
TAYLOR WIMPEY PLC 159.0 5.8%
BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC 654.4 3.2%
HOMESERVE PLC 1,267.0 2.4%
Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards Price (p) % Chg
ANTOFAGASTA PLC 1106.5 -4.3%
VODAFONE GROUP PLC 122.5 -4.1%
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE GROUP 7936.0 -4.0%
HIKMA PHARMACEUTICALS PLC 2547.0 -3.7%
EXPERIAN PLC 2893.0 -3.4%
Major World Indices Price % Chg 1 YEAR
UK 100 INDEX 6,365 -0.9% -12.8%
DOW JONES INDUS. AVG 29,789 -0.5% 6.5%
DAX INDEX 13,133 0.0% -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. 41.00 -0.82%
Brent Crude (ICE) USD/bbl. 43.41 -0.94%
Gold Spot USD/t oz. 1,887 -0.1%
Copper (Comex) USd/lb. 321 -0.5%

 

UK 100 called to open -10 points this morning at 6415.

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Markets Overview:

 

UK 100 called to open -30 points this morning at 6333. Calls for a slightly muted open come on the back of a more mixed picture in Asia on Wednesday morning, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 down 1.05% while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 0.23%.  There was evidence of a wobble in the positive sentiment on Wall Street during Tuesday’s session, with the Dow Jones closing down 0.56% at 29,783 while the S&P 500 dropped 0.48% to 3.609 and the Nasdaq fell 0.21% to 11,899.

 

Company News:

Aviva completes sale of shareholding in Indonesia.

British Land have confirmed the sales of Clarges, Mayfair to Deka for £177m.

Croda announces the acquisition of Iberchem. The proposed placing of ordinary shares is expected to raise net proceeds of circa £600m.

Halfords reported a more than doubling in H1 profit, boosted by a COVID-19-driven cycling boom. They made an underlying pretax profit of £56m, up from £25.9m in the same period last year.

RSA Insurance have received a cash offer worth £7.2bn from Canadian insurer Intact Financial and Danish insurer Tryg. RSA said its directors intended to recommend unanimously that shareholders vote in favour of the scheme.

SSE report that H1 adjusted operating profit was down 15% to £418.3m and adjusted profit before tax down 26% to £193.9m. Coronavirus impact on operating profit estimated at £115m. Adjusted EPS down 34% to 11.9p, within the expected 10-12.5p range.

Reporting Today:

 

 

British Land Company

SSE

Halfords

Breedon Group plc

Safestore Holdings

 

 

 

Reporting Tomorrow:

 

 

Halma

Grainger

CMC Markets

Mitie Group

Johnson Matthey

Jet2

Investec

Kingfisher

Close Brothers Group

 

 

 

In Focus Today:

 

UK Consumer Price Index

UK Retail Price Index

Eurozone Consumer Price Index

BoE’s Haldane speech

US Housing Starts

Fed’s Williams speech

 

 

Tomorrow’s Ex Dividends:

 

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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