UK Stocks-Factors to watch on January 15 (updated)

Compass

15/01/2026 08:33

Adds new items, updates market moves

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index was 0.05% lower on Thursday.

* SCHRODERS: Schroders SDR.L
forecast
 annual adjusted operating profit ahead of market expectations.

* ROBERT WALTERS: Robert Walters RWA.L expects fiscal year 2026
net fee income
 to dip slightly below last year.

*  DUNELM: Dunelm DNLM.L forecast
annual profit
 at the lower end of analyst expectations.

*  ASHMORE: Ashmore ASHM.L
reported
 $2.6 billion net inflows and $1.2 billion in returns in the second quarter.

*  TAYLOR WIMPEY: Taylor Wimpey TW.L warned of a
decline
 in 2026 operating profit margin.

*  MITCHELLS & BUTLERS: Mitchells & Butlers MAB.L reported a 4.5% rise in like-for-like first-quarter
sales
.

* FULLER, SMITH & TURNER: Fuller, Smith & Turner FSTA.L said the five-week Christmas and New Year period delivered sales growth of 8.2%.

* RIO TINTO: Rio Tinto RIO.L and BHP BHP.AX will extract up to 200 million metric tons of iron ore from Pilbara. Separately, a Rio Tinto investor raised concerns over the merits of the potential Glencore deal.

* WIZZ AIR: CEO Jozsef Varadi has raised the budget carrier's WIZZ.L growth projection for this fiscal year, Bloomberg News reported.

* OXFORD BIOMEDICA: Oxford Biomedica OXB.L received an unsolicited cash offer from funds managed by EQT EQTAB.ST.

* HOME REIT: Britain's Serious Fraud Office is investigating an estimated 300 million-pound bribery and fraud case into the former management of the social housing group HOMEH.L.

* HOUSING: Britain's housing market showed some signs of turning a corner last month, a survey showed.

* COMMODITIES:
Oil
 prices slid more than 3%,
copper
 prices pulled back from record highs, and
gold
 slipped.

* EX-DIVS: Compass Group CPG.L and Diploma DPLM.L will trade without entitlement to its latest dividend pay-out on Thursday.

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 (Compiled by Neeshita Beura in Bengaluru)

 ((Neeshita.Beura@thomsonreuters.com))