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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Diageo PLC | 1,896.5 | 3.8% |
| Whitbread PLC | 2,918.0 | 3.4% |
| Jd Sports Fashion PLC | 91.3 | 2.9% |
| Endeavour Mining PLC | 2,292.0 | 2.9% |
| Astrazeneca PLC | 10,402.0 | 2.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| Convatec Group PLC | 272.0 | -5.7% |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC | 939.6 | -2.9% |
| Babcock International Group PLC | 1,119.0 | -2.5% |
| Barclays PLC | 329.7 | -2.3% |
| Standard Chartered PLC | 1,182.0 | -2.1% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 Year |
| UK 100 INDEX | 8,785 | 0.3% | 8.2% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 44,495 | 0.9% | 13.1% |
| DAX INDEX | 23,673 | -1.0% | 30.3% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 39,791 | -0.5% | -0.7% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 8,598 | 0.7% | 11.4% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 65.27 | -0.28% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 67.00 | -0.16% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 3,334 | -0.2% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 512 | 0.4% |
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The UK 100 called to open +34 points this morning at 8,819. The UK 100 has been tipped to make a solid start on Wednesday, extending gains from the previous day and after a mixed session on Wall Street overnight.
Asian equity markets outside of China are on the weaker side this morning, given concern over trade, led by Japan’s Nikkei falling over 1% for the second day in a row.
The Dow Jones climbed on Tuesday as investors rotated out of technology stocks to kick off the second half of 2025. Investors were also weighing the latest developments with President Donald Trump’s giant tax and spending bill as well as comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The S&P inched down 0.11% and closed at 6,198.01, while the Nasdaq lost 0.82% to settle at 20,202.89. The blue-chip Dow was the outlier, gaining 400.17 points, or 0.91%, to end at 44,494.94.
Greggs today scaled back profit guidance after seeing sales growth slow due to the impact of June’s warm weather on footfall. Like-for-like sales rose 2.6% in the 26 weeks to 28 June, which compares with an uplift of 2.9% in its previous update on 20 May. It now expects that full-year operating profit could be modestly below that achieved in 2024. Total sales in the 26 weeks were up 6.9% to £1.03 billion, having opened 87 new shops and closed 56. It has an estate of 2649 outlets.
Spectris has accepted an improved takeover offer from U.S. private equity firm KKR (KKR.N), opens new tab, valuing the scientific instruments maker at about 4.7 billion pounds ($6.46 billion), including debt, the companies said on Wednesday. The offer values Spectris at 40 pounds per share, including dividends, and is a 6.3% premium to Advent’s 37.63 pounds per share offer, marking Britain’s largest takeover deal so far this year.
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UK 250 companies going special ex-dividend on 2nd July 2025:
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UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 3rd July 2025:
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