21st Aug 2026 09:40
(Alliance News) - The following are the leading risers and fallers among FTSE 100 and 250 index constituents on Friday.
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FTSE 100 winners
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Antofagasta PLC, up 5.7% at 3,918 pence, weaker dollar boosts metal prices
JD Sports Fashion PLC, up 4.5% at 83.69p, plunged 14% on Thursday
Fresnillo PLC, up 3.4% at 3,274.5p, tracks gold higher
Endeavour Mining PLC, up 3.1% at 4,635p
Anglo American PLC, up 2.6% at 4,070.5p
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FTSE 100 losers
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Experian PLC, down 2.0% at 2,907.5p
GSK PLC, down 1.9% at 1,884.25p
Smith & Nephew PLC, down 1.9% at 1,053.25p
AstraZeneca PLC, down 1.0% at 11,967p
Relx PLC, down 0.8% at 2,565.5p
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FTSE 250 winners
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Hochschild Mining PLC, up 5.2% at 629.25p
Oxford BioMedica PLC, up 3.4% at 524p
Pan African Resources PLC, up 3.2% at 133.05p
Domino's Pizza Group PLC, up 3.1% at 201.1p
Trainline PLC, up 2.7% at 195.2p
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FTSE 250 losers
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Hunting PLC, down 13% at 410.5p, cuts guidance
Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC, down 2.6% at 160.25p, had jumped 18% on Thursday
Michael Page PLC, down 1.6% at 217p
Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings PLC, down 1.5% at 34.05p, shares trade around a record low
Worldwide Healthcare Trust PLC, down 1.3% at 391.25p
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FTSE 100 & 250 movers in focus:
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Hunting PLC, down 13% at 410.5p, 12-month range 300.00p-553.00p. The provider of equipment and engineering services to the oil and gas industry cuts its annual earnings outlook. It notes Kuwait Oil Co will re-run a tender process originally issued in April. An accelerated tender process is now expected to be re-issued during Q3 2026, with the result announced within a month of issuance. Any new contracts awarded will not be recognised until 2027. Hunting has a strong relationship with KOC that is built on more than six years of technical collaboration and supply-chain qualification. Therefore, the directors continue to believe that Hunting remains well-placed to secure further orders from KOC and other tenders underway across the Middle East and Asia Pacific," it adds. Nonetheless, the KOC tender process delay will hit its 2026 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation by around USD10 million. As a result, it now expects a full-year outcome between USD138 million and USD141 million, "slightly below previous guidance".
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Hochschild Mining PLC, up 5.2% at 629.25p, 12-month range 246.20p-858.00p. An ounce of gold tops the USD4,580 mark for the first time since May. Bullion is on track for a third successive daily advance. It had surged 4% on Wednesday, after the US Treasury said it is increasing, by at least double, the size of liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities, it said on Wednesday.
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Domino's Pizza Group PLC, up 3.1% at 201.1p, 12-month range 164.03p-221.60p. Shore lifts the stock to 'buy' from 'hold', believing its half-year results "were reassuring". Earlier in August, the Milton Keynes, England-based master franchise holder in the UK and Ireland for Domino's Pizza Inc said pretax profit edged up 0.2% to GBP40.6 million in the half-year ended June 28 from GBP40.5 million the year prior.
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Trainline PLC, up 2.7% at 195.2p, 12-month range 178.00p-307.60p. Shares recover some lost ground after hefty declines earlier this week. The UK Competition & Markets Authority opened a formal consumer protection investigation into how mandatory booking fees are presented on its platform.
The CMA is examining whether mandatory train and coach booking fees are included in the total upfront price shown to customers at the start of the booking process. If it ultimately finds an infringement, the regulator can order customer compensation and impose fines of up to 10% of global turnover. Panmure Liberum cuts its price target for the stock to 345 pence from 420p. "We take the opportunity to move to a relative valuation method and revalue Trainline with a new 345p TP given the extremely depressed valuation vs our belief in Trainline's longer-term prospects. We retain our buy rating," analysts at the broker say.
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By Eric Cunha, Alliance News news editor
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