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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| WPP PLC | 320.1 | 11.0% |
| Pershing Square Holdings LTD | 4,758.0 | 2.6% |
| British American Tobacco PLC | 4,159.0 | 2.1% |
| 3I Group PLC | 3,399.0 | 1.9% |
| Entain PLC | 709.4 | 1.3% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Burberry Group PLC | 1,150.5 | -6.6% |
| JD Sports Fashion PLC | 78.5 | -4.7% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 3,186.0 | -3.5% |
| Informa PLC | 906.6 | -3.1% |
| Marks And Spencer Group PLC | 343.2 | -3.0% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year, not sorted |
| UK 100 INDEX | 9,675 | 0.2% | 19.3% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 46,590 | 1.2% | 7.4% |
| DAX INDEX | 23,591 | 1.2% | 22.9% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 48,703 | 3.2% | 27.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,469 | 1.9% | 2.0% |
| Commodity | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 59.42 | 0.87% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 63.72 | 0.78% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 4,011 | 0.8% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 505 | 0.8% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -102 points at 9573. The UK 100 index is set for a fall of more than 1% as traders in London react to overnight losses on Wall Street and in Asia.
Jitters ahead of Nvidia results and Thursday’s labour market report saw the Dow Jones lost 557.24 points, or 1.18%, to close at 46,590.24, as losses in the artificial intelligence chip darling along with Salesforce and Apple pushed the blue-chip index lower. The S&P sank 0.92% to end the day at 6,672.41, while the Nasdaq tumbled 0.84% to settle at 22,708.07.
The decline continued in Asia trading as the Nikkei 225 fell more than 3%, driven by technology valuation fears and Japan’s diplomatic row with China. The Hang Seng index reversed 2%.
Diploma reported strong financial results for the year ending September 2025, with revenue increasing by 12% to £1,524.5 million and adjusted operating profit rising by 20% to £342.7 million. The company achieved an 11% organic revenue growth, driven by volume-led growth across all sectors, and maintained a robust operating margin of 22.5%. The company’s strategic acquisitions in aerospace, defense, and in vitro diagnostics contributed to its growth, and it plans to continue this momentum into the next fiscal year.
Imperial Brands launched a £1.45 billion share buyback and increased its dividend 4.5% as cigarette sales continued to generate strong cash flows and offset losses from ‘next generation’ products (NGPs) such as vapes. Net revenue from tobacco and NGPs increased 1.9% to £8.3 billion in the year to 30 September 2025, or 4.1% if currency swings are ignored. Cigarette volumes were down 1.7% but this was more than offset by price increases, which drove net revenue growth of 3.7%. NGP net revenue rose 13.7% to £368 million, still a tiny portion of the total. This was driven by growth in nicotine pouches in the US and Europe. Group adjusted operating profit rose 4.6% to £3.99 billion, with adjusted earnings per share up 9.1% to 315p. On a reported basis, revenue declined 0.7% to £32.2 billion, with reported operating profit down 1.8% and reported EPS falling 16.5%. The company declared a full-year dividend of 160.32p per share, up 4.5%, and announced the new buyback for 2026 after completing the last £1.25 billion programme. Making this possible was free cash flow of £2.7 billion, while adjusted net debt also increased to £8.4 billion from £7.7 billion.
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Medtronic (MDT) PMO
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Severn Trent (SVT)
British Land (BLND)
Smiths Group (SMIN)
Sage Group (SGE)
Jet2 (JET2)
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NIO Inc ADR (NIO) AMC
NVIDIA Corp (NVDA) AMC
Palo Alto Networks Inc (PANW) AMC
ECB’s Elderson speech
BoE’s Pill speech
US ADP Employment Change 4-week average
US Industrial Production
Fed’s Barr speech
BoE’s Dhingra speech
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 20th November 2025:
National Grid
Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust
Vodafone
DCC
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 20th November 2025:
Volution Group
Empiric Student Proprty
RS Group
Tate & Lyle
Kainos Group
3i Infastructure
B&M European Value Retail
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