World markets
| Shanghai | 2,277.84 | +2.17 (0.10%) |
| S&P 500 | 1,650.51 | -4.84 (-0.29%) |
| Nikkei 225 | 14,602.11 | +118.13 (0.82%) |
| Hang Seng Index | 22,624.21 | -45.47 (-0.20%) |
| TSEC | 8,218.67 | -19.16 (-0.23%) |
| EURO STOXX 50 | 2,776.78 | -58.23 (-2.05%) |
| CAC 40 | 3,967.15 | -83.96 (-2.07%) |
| S&P TSX | 12,658.09 | -94.41 (-0.74%) |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 4,962.80 | -99.60 (-1.97%) |
| BSE Sensex | 19,661.96 | -12.37 (-0.06%) |
| KOSPI | 1,970.36 | +1.17 (0.06%) |
FTSE 100 drops on China data and Bernanke comments
The blue-chip index fell 2.1pc to close at 6696.79 on Thursday. The FTSE 100 ended Wednesday at just 90 points shy of the record close of 6930.2 it reached during the 1999 dotcom boom.
| 6,696.79 | -143.48 | (-2.10%) | |
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| 14,507.72 | -316.42 | (-2.13%) | |
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| 3,529.23 | -75.50 | (-2.09%) | |
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| 2,874.06 | -58.06 | (-1.98%) |
Top stories
Mothercare is crawling towards a recovery as chief executive Simon Calver insisted the UK company was on target to break even within two years.
By the close of the morning's session in Tokyo the benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average stood at 14,868, up 2.7 per cent, as investors piled back in to heavily-sold stocks such as Sharp, Pioneer and Suzuki Motor.
Fri May 24, 2013 12:58am BST. (Reuters) - The chief executive of Royal Mail, Moya Greene, who is responsible for leading a turnaround of the business, is set to receive an annual bonus worth nearly 500,000 pounds, as the company readies itself for a stock ...
Flybe has hit out at the owners of Gatwick, claiming the airline's decision to sell 25 take-off and landing slots at the base to easyJet for �20m was due to the airport's "discriminatory" treatment of smaller airlines.
Occupational pension funds have won a reprieve from a European regulatory overhaul that they feared would have had disastrous consequences for scheme members in several countries as well as the companies that fund them.
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| Capital Goods | -1.88% |
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| Conglomerates | -1.72% |
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| Cons. Cyclical | -2.30% |
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| Cons. Non-Cyclical | -1.30% |
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| Energy | -1.39% |
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| Financial | -3.17% |
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| Healthcare | -1.62% |
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| Services | -1.57% |
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| Technology | -3.17% |
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| Transportation | -1.76% |
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| Utilities | -0.64% |
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