On the face of it, Thursday’s City schedule appears as one of those typical quiet summer trading days - albeit, with the UK government yet to find a footing after the election and Brexit talks now underway, investors have learned to expected the unexpected.
There are no major blue-chip announcements in the books, the columns for financial results and quarterly trading updates have seemingly emptied.
Investors will have to simply wait with an open mind for their event driven news flow.
One of the very few things we can discern in advance, however, is the impact of a handful of stocks going ex-dividend which will trim just 1.88 points off the FTSE 100 tomorrow.
Thursday’s ex-div stocks are: Experian PLC (LON:EXPN), Land Securities PLC (LON:LAND), Mediclinic PLC (LON:MDC), and United Utilities PLC (LON:UU) all trading without entitlement to their latest payout.