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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| St. James’s Place PLC | 1,361.0 | 5.3% |
| Fresnillo PLC | 2,604.0 | 5.2% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 3,462.0 | 4.8% |
| Marks And Spencer Group PLC | 834.0 | 4.5% |
| JD Sports Fashion PLC | 76.7 | 3.9% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Berkeley Group Holdings (The) PLC | 3,726.0 | -3.0% |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC | 1,560.0 | -2.5% |
| Kingfisher PLC | 303.2 | -2.2% |
| The Sage Group PLC | 1,064.5 | -2.1% |
| Compass Group PLC | 2,371.0 | -1.5% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year, not sorted |
| FTSE 100 INDEX | 9,692 | 0.9% | 17.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 47,427 | 0.7% | 6.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 23,726 | 1.1% | 23.2% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 50,167 | 1.2% | 31.6% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,617 | 0.1% | 2.5% |
| Commodity | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 58.58 | 0.12% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 63.00 | 0.21% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 4,160 | 0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 518 | 0.3% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -6 points at 9,685. The UK 100 is called to open about 0.1% lower, with the pound stronger at $1.3262 following the Budget and the US interest rate speculation.
Wall Street’s final session before the Thanksgiving holiday delivered more strong gains. The Dow Jones gained 314.67 points, or 0.67%, to finish at 47,427.12. The S&P climbed 0.69% to settle at 6,812.61, while the Nasdaq increased 0.82% to close at 23,214.69. The broader market’s gains were bolstered by artificial intelligence player Oracle, which jumped around 4% after Deutsche Bank reaffirmed its bullish stance on the name. Nvidia shares moved up more than 1%, recovering from a recent pullback, while fellow “Magnificent Seven” member Microsoft traded almost 2% higher.
The strong US handover lifted the Nikkei 225 by more than 1%, although the Hang Seng index surrendered early gains to stand broadly unchanged.
Entain has warned that Budget-day changes to UK gambling taxes will add £200 million of annual costs to its UK and Ireland online business. It expects to mitigate approximately 25% of this impact through actions including reducing marketing and promotions. Entain warns that regulated operators will be limited to providing a less attractive and lower quality customer offering compared to the unlicensed and untaxed black market.
UK
Pennon Group (PNN)
Mitchells & Butlers (MAB)*
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Deere & Co (DE) PMO
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German GfK Consumer Confidence Survey
ECB’s Cipollone speech
EU Business Climate
EU Consumer Confidence
EU Economic Sentiment Indicator
ECB’s De Guindos speech
ECB Monetary Policy Meeting Accounts
BoE’s Greene speech
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 27th November 2025:
Imperial Brands
Alliance Whitan
Marks and Spencer Group
International Consolidated Airlines Group
3i Group
Land Securities Group
Severn Trent
LondonMetric Property
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 27th November 2025:
Hill & Smith
Oxford Instruments
FirstGroup
HICL Infrastructure
Ithaca Energy
Great Portland Estates
Johnson Matthey
PayPoint
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