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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLINE-DI | 166.2 | 11.2% |
| ASTRAZENECA PLC | 8,559.0 | 6.2% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 115.7 | 4.2% |
| POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL PLC | 1,345.5 | 2.1% |
| UNILEVER PLC | 3,988.0 | 1.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| PRUDENTIAL PLC | 1324.5 | -8.4% |
| STANDARD CHARTERED PLC | 411.0 | -7.0% |
| SCHRODERS PLC | 3583.0 | -6.6% |
| DS SMITH PLC | 430.5 | -5.2% |
| INTERMEDIATE CAPITAL GROUP | 2072.0 | -4.8% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,904 | -0.9% | 18.9% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 33,970 | -1.8% | 25.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,132 | -2.3% | 20.7% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 29,840 | -2.2% | 28.3% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 7,274 | 0.4% | 24.9% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 70.90 | 0.87% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 74.64 | 0.97% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,763 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 413 | 0.3% |
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The UK 100 is called to open +52 today at 6955. The UK 100 looks set to bounce on the open after it was one of many indices which dropped to two-month lows at the start of the week. It was another tough session for Asian markets this morning, Japan’s Nikkei fell by 1.67% after the market returned to trade following a holiday on Monday. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index slipped 0.42%. Markets in mainland China and South Korea remained closed for holidays. Stateside yesterday saw the biggest one day fall since May, the S&P + fell 1.7%, and the Dow Jones closed down 614 points, or 1.8%. The tech-focused Nasdaq also fell 2.2%, as the prospect emerged that one of China’s largest property developers may default on hundreds of billions of dollars of debt.
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