AAL ING: upgraded to buy from hold, tp raised to 2050 from 1250
ANTO Morgan Stanley: downgraded to underweight
AZN Goldman[HB]: upgraded to neutral from sell
BLT Daiwa: tp raised to A$26.34 from A$23.83
BLT ING: downgraded to hold from buy, tp raised to 1650 from 1450
BRBY Goldman: upgraded to neutral from sell
DGMT JPMorgan: downgraded to neutral
ENRC Credit Suisse[HB]: reiterated outperform
IHG UBS: downgraded to sell from neutral
ITV JPMorgan: upgraded to overweight from neutral
KAZ Morgan Stanley: downgraded to underweight
PRTY Morgan Stanley: initiated overweight
RIO Daiwa: downgraded to sell from hold
RIO ING: hold, to raised to 2775 from 1850
SBRY Seymour: reiterated hold
WSM UBS: downgraded to neutral from buy
XTA ING: hold, tp raised to 775 from 425

Midday Market Overview

Greystone/Kyoto
where can i find a list of those companies who go ex-divi tomorrow?
i see you have a list [above]for those ex div today but too late to buy for the divi.
regards
Alex

robert,

click on the forward diary and then using the calender select next wednesday - you should see a list as it stands at the moment in there.

Ian

Ian
thanks, never knew that existed. By chance are ex divi dates normally on Wednesdays. tried a few futures dates and would appear so.
Alex

End-of-day Market Overview

Alex - ex dividend dates are almost always Wednesday - although a handful of companies do have different dates. I can't recall any of the FTSE350 companies having a different day from Wednesday though.

In my experience there can be gaps in ex-div stocks depending on the provider - it's best to check a second source of dates such as Digital Look. Sometimes they will be missing information as well. It's not uncommon here for us to be poised to jump into a stock which is down and out of range on a Wednesday morning, and have searched RNS messages to find it's ex-dividend when nobody had it listed. So this kind of information can be a bit hit and miss sometimes.

There used to be a lot of scope for dividend plays a few years ago but I'm not sure of the attraction now.