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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Natwest Group PLC | 275.1 | 6.7% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 149.9 | 6.3% |
| Ashtead Group PLC | 5,126.0 | 5.3% |
| Barclays PLC | 143.6 | 5.3% |
| Lloyds Banking Group PLC | 48.3 | 4.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 1,751.9 | -4.3% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 714.2 | -4.0% |
| Kingfisher PLC | 267.0 | -2.3% |
| Segro PLC | 742.0 | -1.5% |
| Severn Trent PLC | 2,807.0 | -1.5% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 7,536 | 1.8% | 1.4% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 32,414 | 0.5% | -6.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 15,190 | 1.7% | 6.1% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 26,946 | -1.4% | 0.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,955 | 0.8% | -5.3% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 68.35 | 1.05% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 74.39 | 0.81% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,944 | -1.8% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 398 | 0.7% |
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The UK 100 called to open -24 points at 7512. The UK 100 looks set to edge lower this morning after UK inflation data showed a rise to 10.4 per cent last month in a reversal of recent trends. Wall Street yesterday saw the Dow Jones close up 1% at 32,560 points, the S&P 500 added 1.3% to close at 4,002 points, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.6% to end the session at 11,860 points.
Essentra delays their 2022 results due to disposals from filters and packaging business.
Fevertree FY pretax profit falls to £31m from £55.6m YoY. They have increased their final dividend by 2% to 10.68p as they reiterate Jan guidance of FY23 revenue of £390-405m and EBITDA of £36-42m.
Superdry are to sell some intellectual property assets for £50m to Cowell Fashion.
Vistry Group report that market conditions were improving in the housing sector, as they reported a 21% rise in their annual profit to beat market expectations. They reported an adjusted pretax profit of £418.4m for the year ended Dec 31st, compared with average analysts’ estimate of £411.1m.
Exane BNP Upgrades Marks & Spencer to Neutral from Underperform (2 Buys / 13 Holds / 0 Sells)
CitiGroup Upgrades Marks & Spencer to Buy (2 Buys / 13 Holds / 0 Sells)
Goldman Sachs Downgrades British Land to Sell (8 Buys / 5 Holds / 1 Sell)
Goldman Sachs Upgrades Marks & Spencer to Neutral (2 Buys / 13 Holds / 0 Sells)
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UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 23rd March 2023:
Schroders
British American Tobacco
Pearson
Prudential
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 23rd March 2023:
OSB Group
CLS Holdings
Close Brothers Group
Hikma Pharmaceuticals
Hipgnosis Songs Fund
Chemring Group
HgCapital Trust
Volution Group
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