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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Ocado Group | 2,557 | 2.55% |
| Barclays | 151.32 | 1.69% |
| NatWest Group | 160.75 | 1.39% |
| Burberry Group | 1,738.5 | 1.31% |
| JD Sports Fashion | 839.8 | 1.21% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Ferguson | 9,088.0 | -1.92% |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals | 2,495 | -1.77% |
| Pearson | 666.6 | -1.68% |
| M&G | 193.2 | -1.58% |
| Flutter Entertainment | 14,790 | -1.56% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,721 | -0.2% | -12.4% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 30,814 | -0.6% | 5.0% |
| DAX INDEX | 13,848 | 0.4% | 2.4% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 28,242 | -1.0% | 17.5% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,663 | -0.8% | -5.7% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 52.25 | -0.21% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 54.91 | -0.34% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,838 | 0.5% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 362 | 0.4% |
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UK 100 called to open +30 points this morning at 6750. US Markets were closed yesterday due to a public holiday for Martin Luther King day, and as is often the case, markets saw lower trading volumes on Monday. Traders today will be looking towards incoming US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen fleshing out Joe Biden’s bumper Covid stimulus plan to provide some positivity in market sentiment. Evidence of this optimism was shown in Asia overnight, South Korea’s Kospi led gains among the Asian markets as it jumped 2.67% while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index also saw robust gains, rising 2.16%. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 rose 1.27%, it was only in mainland Chinese that had a red session today, the Shanghai composite dipping 0.74%.
AO World reports quarterly UK revenue growth of 67.2% to £457.3m. They have seen a significant increase in demand for their products and services since the start of the pandemic, which has continued throughout Q3.
Centamin reports quarterly revenue of $150m, generated from gold sales of 79,535 oz at an average realised gold price of $1,887/oz sold.
Experian reported better than expected performance in Q3 as they delivered organic revenue growth of 7%, but it guided to a 3-5% growth for Q4.
Premier Foods now expects their trading profit to be in the range of £145-150m after group sales for Q3 increased 9%.
Rio Tinto reported a 2.4% rise in Q4 iron ore shipments, helped by industrial activity in their top consumer market China.
Superdry reported a wider H1 loss and another big drop in sales in the Christmas quarter, hurt by COVID-19 lockdowns that have shuttered its stores. They reported a pretax loss of £10.6m (2020: £2.3m loss) and H1 revenue slumped 23.3%.
Boot (Henry) plc
Experian Plc
Kier Group plc
Premier Foods plc
Rio Tinto plc
Knights Group Hldgs
Time Finance
U and I Group plc
Antofagasta Holdings*
BHP Group Plc
Burberry Group plc
Cairn Energy plc
City of London Investment Group plc
CMC Markets Plc
Diploma plc
J D Wetherspoon plc**
WH Smith Plc
German Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices
Eurozone ECB Bank Lending Survey
BoE’s Haldane speech
EcoFin Meeting
Eurozone ZEW Survey – Economic Sentiment
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