London shares down after Bhutto killing
26427
London shares were down Friday as the murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto reverberated around the world, while investors took profits before the year-end.
626701
Leading shares closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker after investors received mixed news on US housing data, with Tesco remaining down in the blue chips following disappointing first-quarter UK sales growth.
316075
London equities failed to sustain a brief afternoon rebound on Wednesday, and after spending a short period back over the 6,000 mark, the FTSE 100 fell back beneath it.
668743
Leading British shares nosedived to session lows as Wall Street slipped amid ongoing concerns about the weak US currency.
562826
UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker with the banking sector heavily hit, as Northern Rock dropped sharply again.
667891
FTSE 100 drops more than 200 points, adding to yesterday's biggest fall since 9/11
394039
UK blue chips closed lower, off the day's highs, with a weak start on Wall Street, ahead of Thursday's Thanksgiving holiday, and fading bid hopes at ITV weighing on market sentiment, dealers said.
740824
London stocks ended lower on Wednesday as Bradford & Bingley kicked off the bank reporting season in worrying fashion.
736769
London equities fell in early trading on Wednesday after news of lower copper output at Kazakhmys prompted losses in the mining sector.
582906
London equities fell in opening trade on Tuesday, with banking stocks in the vanguard of the decline after news of lower mortgage market share at HBOS and a warning of continued upward pressure on interest rates from the Bank of England.
46853
Stocks fell in early trading after the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto and after the U.S. government reported a weak increase in durable goods orders.
682599
Blue chips closed lower, with the banking reporting season off to a bad start as mid-cap Bradford & Bingley's shares lost 23 percent after its results, and the Bank of England's hawkish inflation report having a more widespread negative effect, though Wall Street was higher.
705857
U.S. stocks dropped on Thursday, led lower by financial shares after an analyst warned of larger mortgage-related write-offs, while an assassination of Pakistan's' opposition leader Benazir Bhutto sparked fears of global unrest.
445313
London equities tracked heavy overnight falls in the US and Asia with the FTSE 100 trading sharply lower on Wednesday.
234662
U.S. stocks dropped on Thursday, led by financial shares' losses after an analyst warned of larger write-offs in the sector, while an assassination in Pakistan sparked fears of global instability.
530649
Leading shares ended weaker, with the FTSE 100 index drifting back below the 4,700 level as the impact of Wall Street's early rally was tempered by a rise in Brent crude to 50 dollars a barrel for the first time, and by weakness in supermarket giant Sainsbury following yet another profit warning, dealers said.
609293
Sweating slightly, the son of slain Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto slipped into the basement of a swanky London hotel, took his place behind a bank of microphones and looked up. Cameras flashed. He barely blinked.