LONDON (ShareCast) – 1630: Close The FTSE 100 ended today’s session flat as investors digested a raft of data from both home and abroad. The UK service sector showed a slight dip on the month before, although optimism was its highest since March 2010. Meanwhile, a Lloyds survey revealed UK business confidence has reached its Read More
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The membership of the FTSE 100 is not just a measure of the shift in the UK economy from manufacturing to services. It is also an illustration of London’s role in a globalised financial marketplace, with many of the index’s constituents using the London Stock Exchange as a listing of convenience, unrelated to their provenance Read More
By Atul Prakash LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index was steady by midday on Monday, with weaker mining and retail equities cancelling out sharp gains in RSA Insurance on expectations it would avoid further writedowns. RSA rose 6.7 percent after the Sunday Telegraph newspaper said a probe into its Irish business was expected to Read More
1630: Close The FTSE finished the week up 37 points and the day 13 points higher, lifted by Next which helped drive the retail sector as a whole higher. In today’s macro news, UK house prices rose in December by the biggest amount in more than four years, up 1.4 per cent month-on-month. Elsewhere, lending Read More
The last year was a positive one for the FTSE 100 (UKX), with the blue-chip index rising 14.4% over the course of 2013. What caused the index to rise and fall over the last 12 months and what can we expect as we move into 2014? January In the early part of the year, the Read More
Although the FTSE 100 has become shorthand for the ups and downs of the London market, it arguably doesn’t even do that very well I wasn’t quite there for the birth of the FTSE 100, 30 years ago this week. If the UK’s benchmark stock market index were a person, I would have been dropping Read More
* FTSE ends up 0.2 pct at 6,730.67 points * Next (Other OTC: NXGPF – news) hits record highs after strong Xmas sales * Next rises 10 pct, M&S up 3.9 percent * FTSE to hit 7,000 in Q2 – SVM’s McLean By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Strong gains by clothing retailer Read More
* FTSE 100 down 0.2 pct * Next (Other OTC: NXGPF – news) surges to new high following good festive period trade * Overall index slips after weak Chinese data * FTSE 100 turns 30, has risen 570 percent over lifetime By Alistair Smout LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index edged lower Read More
By This Is Money Reporters PUBLISHED: 04:03 EST, 3 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:37 EST, 3 January 2014 15.35: The Dow Jones is up 63.4 points at 16,504.8 in early trading, while the FTSE 100 is ahead 25.8 points at 6,743.7 towards the end of the London session. 14.20: Futures trading points to a higher Read More
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top share index edged lower on Friday, extending a muted start to the year but supported by news of upbeat trading from Next in what has been a mixed Christmas for the UK retail sector. The FTSE 100 fell 0.2 percent to 6,705.53, dipping further away from multi-year Read More