24th Aug 2026 11:56
(Alliance News) - The following are the leading risers and fallers among FTSE 100 and 250 index constituents on Monday.
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FTSE 100 winners
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Airtel Africa PLC, up 2.8% at 336.20 pence
IG Group Holdings PLC, up 2.0% at 2,360p
Entain PLC, up 1.7% at 546.6p
Antofagasta PLC, up 1.6% at 3,967p, gold price rises
Weir PLC, up 1.5% at 2,857p
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FTSE 100 losers
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Fresnillo PLC, down 1.2% at 3,182p, down despite gold price rise
Kingfisher PLC, down 1.3% at 317.15p
BP PLC, down 1.1% at 543.4p, oil down ahead of new US-Iran sanctions
Autotrader Group PLC, down 1.1% at 540.9p
Polar Capital Technology Trust PLC, down 1.0% at 633p, tech earnings including Nvidia due this week
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FTSE 250 winners
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ME Group International PLC, up 3.9% at 125.7 pence
Hays PLC, up 2.2% at 73.75p, RBC raises price target to 85 pence
Gamma Communications PLC, up 2.0% at 1,103.5p, buys back 4,378 shares
Trainline PLC, up 1.9% at 201.2p
WPP Group PLC, up 1.9% at 394.4p
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FTSE 250 losers
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC, down 2.4% at 165.85p, Barclays raises price target to 182p
Hochschild Mining PLC, down 2.0% at 627.5p, gold price rises
Schroder AsiaPacific Fund PLC, down 1.9% at 821.5p
Harbour Energy PLC, down 1.8% at 257.2p, oil price down
Kainos Group Ltd, down 1.8% at 1,271p
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FTSE 100 & 250 movers in focus:
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BP PLC, down 1.1% at 543.4 pence, 12-month range 410.45p-606.3p. Oil stocks are down, with a barrel of Brent crude buying USD92.75 a barrel on Monday, down from USD94.08 a barrel late on Friday. US President Donald Trump announced that Washington would ramp up economic pressure on Iran "on an unprecedented scale," with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later writing in the Financial Times that Washington was launching the "single greatest financial offensive marshalled against an adversary". He called this an "economic D-Day". However, Iran has dismissed Washington's declaration and its claims to have dismantled Tehran's military and nuclear capabilities. "Your narrative doesn't add up: you say that Iran's military power has been 'dismantled', 100% of its military factories 'destroyed' and its nuclear program 'buried'," Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy foreign minister, said in a post on X. Yet, he added, "there is a need for 'the largest financial invasion in history' and the mobilisation of 'all institutions and powers' of the US! Is this a victory or an admission of America's defeat?"
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By Emma Curzon, Alliance News reporter
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