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| Yesterday’s UK100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| M&G PLC | 150.0 | 7.1% |
| BURBERRY GROUP PLC | 1,583.5 | 7.0% |
| EVRAZ PLC | 290.7 | 6.6% |
| MELROSE INDUSTRIES PLC | 125.9 | 6.1% |
| BARRATT DEVELOPMENTS PLC | 532.0 | 5.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 319.0 | -7.8% |
| STANDARD CHARTERED PLC | 392.1 | -4.7% |
| MEGGITT PLC | 295.0 | -3.2% |
| HSBC HOLDINGS PLC | 384.4 | -3.1% |
| BRITISH LAND CO PLC | 397.2 | -2.7% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,219 | 1.2% | -14.5% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 25,401 | -0.6% | 0.2% |
| DAX INDEX | 11,781 | 1.1% | -2.0% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 21,916 | 2.3% | 4.4% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 5,851 | 1.3% | -9.1% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 33.66 | 2.59% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 35.28 | 1.55% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,719 | 0.0% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 241 | 1.1% |
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UK 100 called to open +45 points at 6172. UK 100 set to take a step back as US-China tensions rise. After US markets turned south last night, UK equities are set to open lower on Friday ahead of a president Trump press conference today on China. Asia-Pacific trading today saw Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fall 1.3 percent. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.2 percent and Japan’s Topix index shed 0.3 percent. Overnight, Wall Street’s S&P 500 index reversed gains of 1 percent to close down 0.2 percent. The drop came after US President Donald Trump said he would hold a news conference regarding China on Friday after Beijing agreed the new legislation.
AstraZeneca‘s top-selling drug Tagrisso has been been shown to hold back a certain type of lung cancer when diagnosed at an early stage, potentially adding billions to its sales potential.
NMC Health‘s joint administrators said that the most likely exit option for the company was either dissolution or liquidation.
SIG plans to raise £150m in new equity with U.S. buyout firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) as it pointed to a bleak outlook after ‘disappointing’ results. They have scrapped their dividend and envisaged a £500m hit to 2020 revenues, and the share sales is ecpected to result in a 25% shareholding by CD&R.
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