News 20 June 2026

Etihad Orders 10 Boeing Jets, Raising Talk of Hard-to-Get 787 Slots
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Stock Market Today: Live Updates 10.07.2026

LIVEMarkets rolling coverageStarted: July 10, 2026, 4:00 AM EDTUpdated: July 10, 2026, 7:38 PM EDT 25% of Australian Workers Own Up to Unsanitary Kitchen Habits July 10, 2026, 7:25 PM EDT. A new survey says 25% of Australian workers admit to unsanitary behavior in shared office kitchens. The study points to continued problems around cleanliness and responsibility in communal work areas. Employee habits are adding to the problem of unhygienic workspaces. 1 in 4 Aussies admit to gross work act Transurban Group (TCL) up 3.1% for 2025 as industrials sector draws more interest July 10, 2026, 7:24 PM EDT. Transurban
July 10, 2026
Tesco shares slide 6.8% this week after UK sales disappoint
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Tesco shares slide 6.8% this week after UK sales disappoint

Tesco finished the week down as UK sales growth cooled, hitting confidence in the supermarket’s profit outlook. Shares dropped 2.6% on Friday to £4.41, while the FTSE 100 slipped 0.35%. The London market is closed for the weekend. Tesco left its full-year outlook unchanged. The issue was UK like-for-like sales. This measure, which ignores store openings and closures, rose 1.8% for the 13 weeks to May 30. That missed the average analyst call of 2.3% and slowed from 3.1% growth last quarter.
June 20, 2026
SSE drops 3% on week, weighed by policy and rates risks
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SSE drops 3% on week, weighed by policy and rates risks

SSE PLC managed a small bounce on Friday, up 13p at 2,325p, after dropping over the prior four sessions. Still, the shares wrapped up the week down 3.1% from last Friday’s 2,400p finish. SSE outperformed the market Friday but not enough to erase the week’s losses. SSE’s drop is notable as the company needs investor support for a big spending plan, with payoffs expected over a long timeline. Gilt yields hit a one-week high after the Bank of England left rates at 3.75%, with a 7-2 vote showing more hawkish sentiment. Higher yields on government bonds can pull investors away from utility names and push up borrowing costs for new projects. Saxo strategist Neil Wilson said investors are judging the
June 20, 2026
TG Jones flags risk of collapse under more supplier pressure before court date
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TG Jones flags risk of collapse under more supplier pressure before court date

TG Jones could run out of money if a court doesn’t back its restructuring plan at a hearing at the end of June, CEO Alex Willson said. That leaves the ex-WH Smith chain at risk of collapse. “We just don’t have the cash to continue,” Willson said. The company has promised landlords half of any profit above £40 million over three years as a last-ditch bid to get them on board. TG Jones is up against an immediate deadline. Creditors have seen documents warning the retailer will run out of funding “on or around the end of June 2026” unless a court approves its restructuring, putting the legal process as the key hurdle to avoiding administration.
June 20, 2026
Compass Group slips 1.3% with investors eyeing July update
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Compass Group falls 5.8% this week as dividend adjustment, risk-off hit stock

Compass Group shares lagged this week, down each day from Monday to Friday. The contract caterer closed at $32.20, off from $34.18 last week. The size of the drop stands out since it happened after Compass lifted its profit outlook in May and before its next trading update. The company isn't posting results or an operating update next week. The third-quarter statement is on the calendar for July 21.
June 20, 2026
Prudential Up as Buybacks Remain Key for Investors
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Prudential Up as Buybacks Remain Key for Investors

London markets were shut for the weekend. Prudential plc finished Friday at 1,006.5 pence, slipping 0.35% on the day but still up 2.6% from last week’s close of 981.2p. The FTSE 100 was off 1.0% over the same stretch, as worries over U.S.-Iran tensions and political uncertainty in Britain kept risk appetite low. That relative strength comes after an early-June drop. Prudential, HSBC, Standard Chartered and AIA all slid on a report saying mainland Chinese residents would face tighter rules to open new offshore investment accounts in Hong Kong. The news raised worries about wealth flows across the border.
June 20, 2026
Intertek Closes the Week at 5,805p, Still 3.3% Off EQT Offer
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Intertek Closes the Week at 5,805p, Still 3.3% Off EQT Offer

Intertek Group closed June 19 at 5,805 pence, staying 195 pence under the £60 per share cash offer from EQT of Sweden. The stock edged down 0.17% on Friday, after it hit a 52-week high at 5,820 pence earlier in the day. The spread is at 3.25% of the cash bid, about 3.4% gross upside from Friday’s close. That level shows investors think the deal will probably close, but aren’t all in. Intertek’s gains last week outpaced a FTSE 100 weighed down by geopolitical tensions and uncertainty around UK politics.
June 20, 2026
RELX wraps week down 4.6%, Friday bounce in AI stocks offers little relief
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RELX wraps week down 4.6%, Friday bounce in AI stocks offers little relief

RELX finished Friday at 2,377 pence, up from Thursday but down sharply from last week’s 2,492 pence close. The bulk of the drop came after Thursday’s 3.97% slide. Shares posted a heavy weekly loss, underperforming the London market. RELX’s slide is stretching out, not just a single session move. Shares closed the week about 41% off their 52-week high of 4,030 pence hit last July, showing investors continue to cut what they’re willing to pay for recurring revenue and steady profit growth as artificial intelligence shifts the professional data market.
June 20, 2026
ASX 200 edges higher this week as BHP falls and Hormuz risk lingers
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ASX 200 edges higher this week as BHP falls and Hormuz risk lingers

Australian shares eked out a weekly rise, but heavy selling in miners on Friday and wariness over the Strait of Hormuz put the market at risk of another choppy start on Monday. The benchmark slipped 0.92% in the last session, breaking a four-day win streak. ASX 200 jumped 1.25% Monday after early optimism around a U.S.-Iran deal. But that move is starting to look shaky. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday Hormuz was closed. U.S. Central Command said 55 merchant ships passed through with over 17 million barrels of oil.
June 20, 2026
FTSE 100 Ends Week Down 1% as Geopolitics, Politics Weigh
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FTSE 100 Ends Week Down 1% as Geopolitics, Politics Weigh

FTSE books worst week in six as peace talks scrapped, political jitters hit cyclicalsBritish stocks fell again Friday, capping their weakest week in over a month. The FTSE 100 closed down 0.4% at about 10,363, leaving it 1% lower for the week. The FTSE 250 shed 0.6% on Friday and 0.5% over the last five sessions. Miners and other cyclicals came under pressure after U.S.-Iran peace talks were called off and new political risk emerged in the UK. Brent crude dropped almost 5% early this week after talk of a U.S.-Iran deal. Travel, homebuilding and mining stocks rose while BP and Shell shares slipped as traders looked for cheaper energy and a possible opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
June 20, 2026
Standard Chartered up 6% in the week, ahead of FTSE 100
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Standard Chartered up 6% in the week, ahead of FTSE 100

Standard Chartered ended the week up 6%, outpacing the FTSE 100’s 1% drop. The London market is shut for the weekend. Shares in Standard Chartered eased 14 pence on Friday but held close to their high for the month. The bounce is notable because it clawed back most of the drop from earlier in June. That’s when tougher Chinese rules on offshore investment sparked worry about mainland money moving into Hong Kong wealth products. Standard Chartered closed just 1.4% under the 52-week high of 2,073 pence it set on June 3.
June 20, 2026
Experian bounces back Friday, still finishes week in the red as rate worries keep pressure on
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Experian bounces back Friday, still finishes week in the red as rate worries keep pressure on

Experian shares bounced back Friday, gaining 33 pence to 2,542 pence after dropping 1.9% on Thursday. The stock beat the FTSE 100, which slipped 0.35%. Even with the move higher, Experian still posted a weekly loss. The stock is still about 38% under its 52-week high of 4,101 pence. The difference exposes debate over where growth goes from here—if steady demand for credit data and fraud tools will beat concerns about tight lending, rate swings, and new AI worries.
June 20, 2026
Antofagasta Drops 6.2% as Copper Retreat Cuts Earlier Gains
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Antofagasta Drops 6.2% as Copper Retreat Cuts Earlier Gains

London trading was shut for the weekend, leaving Antofagasta's late-week slide as the last word for investors. Shares in the Chile-focused copper miner dropped 6.2% to 3,912 pence on Friday. That wiped out the 6.1% gain from Monday and put the price under last week’s 4,044-pence close. Copper slipped, but shares saw sharper moves. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange settled near $13,600 a tonne, off about 0.6% from Thursday. No fresh company news landed with the share-price move. The gap shows investors were pulling back from copper stocks harder than the metal drop alone suggested.
June 20, 2026
LSEG drops 6% for the week as Rothschild Redburn cuts rating
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LSEG drops 6% for the week as Rothschild Redburn cuts rating

LSEG shares dropped 6.1% this week, even after a Friday bounce took the close to 8,460 pence. Last week, the shares had settled at 9,010 pence. The drop is an issue for LSEG, since it follows a recovery rally that began after Elliott Management backed its £3 billion buyback and demanded more movement on growth, margins and valuation. But the main question remains: will LSEG’s data and AI bets turn into revenue quickly enough to close the gap with peers?
June 20, 2026
Lloyds shares finish week up 2.7% as bank targets 300 AI hires
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Lloyds shares finish week up 2.7% as bank targets 300 AI hires

London trading is shut for the weekend, so Lloyds Banking Group won't react until Monday to the recruitment plan aiming to add new hires to its AI team. The plan would swell the AI unit to about 1,000 people, counting both new and retrained staff. Agentic AI means software that plans and executes tasks with little human help. Lloyds is set to roll out a fresh multi-year strategy with half-year results on July 30, just as CEO Charlie Nunn wraps up his first plan. Nunn in April said the group was “confident in our delivery for the year ahead.” Now shareholders expect proof that AI will lift revenue or cut costs, not just boost tech budgets.
June 20, 2026
Reckitt Benckiser Drops at Close After £1 Billion Buyback Wraps Up
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Reckitt Benckiser Drops at Close After £1 Billion Buyback Wraps Up

Reckitt Benckiser Group closed at 4,614 pence on Friday, losing 35 pence. The shares moved between 4,611 pence and 4,659 pence. Volume jumped to 6.62 million, over three times the usual pace. London stocks wrapped up a tough week. Reckitt closed out the £1 billion share buyback it kicked off last July. The weekly drop was modest. With the program now over, that steady buyer is gone as investors look again at costs and sales in developed markets.
June 20, 2026
GSK drops 3% for the week even after U.S. nod for Utebzi
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GSK drops 3% for the week even after U.S. nod for Utebzi

GSK closed Friday at 1,925.5 pence, up 0.13% on the day but down 2.95% for the week. The stock lagged the FTSE 100 by about two percentage points over the week. Shares fell after the pipeline win. Investors look to be focusing less on regulatory progress and more on when GSK can launch, how products will sell, and how much its recent acquisitions cost. The approval gives a boost to GSK’s infectious-disease business, but there’s no big sales pop yet.
June 20, 2026
BP shares claw back 2.8%, still down 5.7% for the week as Hormuz fears hit market
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BP shares claw back 2.8%, still down 5.7% for the week as Hormuz fears hit market

BP shares could see choppy trading on Monday after Iran’s military announced another shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz. That came less than 24 hours after the stock gained along with crude prices. London’s market stayed shut Saturday. BP shares closed at 503.80 pence on Friday, up 2.81%, while the FTSE 100 slipped 0.35%. The gain did little to recover from losses earlier in the week. BP dropped 5.7% from last Friday's 534.50 pence finish. Over the week, the FTSE 100 was down 1%.
June 20, 2026
Anglo American Drops for the Week After Berenberg Cuts Rating
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Anglo American Drops for the Week After Berenberg Cuts Rating

Anglo American closed down 2.6% at 3,890 pence Friday, ending a choppy week for the stock. Shares finished the week about 2.8% lower from last Friday’s close. Roughly 7.7 million shares traded hands Friday, with London markets now closed for the weekend. Anglo wasn’t the only laggard in the final session. Miners pushed European stocks down as metals prices slipped. Rio Tinto slid 2.6%, and Glencore shed 1.6%. The FTSE 100 declined 0.4% on Friday, off 1% for the week. That’s its worst weekly fall since early May.
June 20, 2026
BAE Systems Shares Drop 3.4% This Week on Hormuz Risk
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BAE Systems Shares Drop 3.4% This Week on Hormuz Risk

BAE Systems slipped over the week, giving back some recent gains as traders pulled out of defence names. That reset could be short-lived. On Saturday, Iran’s military announced it would shut the Strait of Hormuz, citing what it called ceasefire violations. The news hit after London markets shut. BAE lost 4.74% on Monday after word of a preliminary peace deal between Washington and Tehran. Brent crude dropped almost 5%. Risk picks got more interest. It wasn’t contract news moving BAE this time but the headlines around peace.
June 20, 2026
Barclays ends week up 5% with UK rate path in focus
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Barclays ends week up 5% with UK rate path in focus

Barclays PLC finished the week near £5, beating the wider London market. The London Stock Exchange is closed Saturday, so Friday’s last close at 496.45 pence stands as the current price. The shares moved higher in the week’s first three days, starting at 479.90 pence Monday and reaching 503.50 pence by Wednesday. The stock slipped back Thursday and Friday but ended the week nearly 5% above last week’s close at 472.85 pence.
June 20, 2026
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