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| Yesterday’s UK 100 Leaders | Price (p) | % Chg |
| SEGRO PLC | 743.2 | 2.6% |
| IMPERIAL BRANDS PLC | 1,944.0 | 2.5% |
| HALEON PLC | 284.2 | 2.1% |
| INFORMA PLC | 542.4 | 2.0% |
| ASHTEAD GROUP PLC | 4,400.0 | 1.8% |
| Yesterday’s UK 100 Laggards | Price (p) | % Chg |
| KINGFISHER PLC | 214.4 | -4.9% |
| CENTRICA PLC | 68.4 | -4.4% |
| ROLLS-ROYCE HOLDINGS PLC | 71.3 | -3.6% |
| DS SMITH PLC | 249.4 | -3.5% |
| ST JAMES’S PLACE PLC | 995.6 | -3.3% |
| Major World Indices | Price | % Chg | 1 YEAR |
| UK 100 INDEX | 6,997 | -0.8% | -1.1% |
| DOW JONES INDUS. AVG | 29,927 | -1.2% | -13.9% |
| DAX INDEX | 12,471 | -0.4% | -18.2% |
| NIKKEI 225 | 27,116 | -0.7% | -2.0% |
| S&P/ASX 200 INDEX | 6,763 | -0.8% | -6.8% |
| Commodities | Units | Price | % Chg |
| WTI Crude Oil (Nymex) | USD/bbl. | 88.33 | -0.14% |
| Brent Crude (ICE) | USD/bbl. | 94.30 | -0.13% |
| Gold Spot | USD/t oz. | 1,711 | -0.1% |
| Copper (Comex) | USd/lb. | 342 | -0.9% |
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The UK 100 is called to open -20 points this morning at 6980. The UK 100 is seen marginally lower today following a difficult session for global markets yesterday and the pound once more showing weakness overnight. In focus today will be key non-farm payrolls numbers to see if the Fed’s aggressive interest rate moves are denting the jobs market. By the close the Dow Jones was down 347 points, or 1.15%, to 29,926.47, the S&P fell 39 points, or 1.03%, to 3,744.40, and the Nasdaq slipped 75 points to 11,073.
Croda expects organic growth in their drug delivery platforms to continue excluding Covid.
JD Wetherspoon report a FY22 pretax profit after exceptional items of £26.3m (2021: £194.6m loss). They state that the biggest threat to the business is the possibility of further lockdowns and restrictions as they see higher labour and repair costs.
Marshalls report that their nine months to Sept 30th revenue came in at £544m (2021: £453m).
PureTech Health confirms talks with Nektar Therapeutics over possible merger.
Superdry reported a FY22 adjusted pretax profit of £21.9m (2021: £12.6m loss) as they expect to make an adjusted profit of between £10-20m in FY23. They are cautious about their short-term future due to the challenging macroeconomic environment.
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Wetherspoons
Sirius Real Estate
EU EU leaders summit
US Nonfarm Payrolls
US Unemployment Rate
Fed’s Williams speech
UK 100 companies going ex-dividend on 13th October 2022:
Taylor Wimpey
WPP
Spirax-Sarco Engineering
Tesco
UK 250 companies going ex-dividend on 13th October 2022:
Howden Joinery Group
NCC Group
Close Brothers Group
JPMorgan Emerging Markets Invest Trust
Balanced Commercial Property Trust
Ruffer Investment Company
Primary Health Properties
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