London shares close lower with insurers and banks under pressure
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Leading shares closed near lows as Wall Street remained weaker on news of credit default troubles at American International Group Inc., with falls from the UK insurers and banking sectors.
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Wall Street stocks plunged as the markets opened on Thursday but stabilised to close moderately lower in a tempestuous day's trading that did little to soothe investors' frayed nerves.
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Leading shares closed lower, as losses amongst heavy weight pharmaceutical makers hit both sides of the Atlantic, dealers said.
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Leading UK shares closed mixed, following three days of decline, and were well off highs, after a rally on Wall Street faded.
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The FTSE 100 index closed lower again, weighed down by weakness across telecoms and media stocks, while early losses on Wall Street added to the market's woes in afternoon trade, dealers said.
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UK blue chips closed just off session lows today, dragged down by further losses on Wall Street, while fresh weakness across the mining sector and profit taking in Carnival and William Morrison also weighed.
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Mortgage lenders and homebuilders were the big losers in UK stock markets on Friday, dragging the FTSE indices lower, after news of house price falls combined with Northern Rock&#39;s difficulties to send investors running for the exits.
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Leading shares closed lower after Marks and Spencer lost nearly 20 percent of its value after revealing it had endured its worst quarterly performance in several years, while BP was on the back foot after analysts slashed forecasts.
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UK blue chips closed lower Thursday having spent much of the afternoon tracking Wall Street which was unsettled by rising oil prices and mixed economic data, but overall were subdued amid ongoing interest rate concerns at home.
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Leading shares ended lower after a thinly-traded session tracking falls on Wall Street with investors cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's latest US interest rate decision due after the London close tonight.
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Stocks declined on Monday, led by financial shares, as a rush by savers to withdraw deposits at a large British mortgage lender fueled worries that the credit market turmoil would spread.
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Leading shares closed lower, around the worst levels of the day, as US indices traded mixed, a Next profit warning hit retailers and ex-dividend stocks weighed, dealers said.
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The FTSE 100 has fallen for the fifth session in a row, with insurers crowding the list of fallers after sentiment in the sector was damaged by news that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was suing a US firm.
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Leading shares closed lower Tuesday and off session highs as Wall Street was softer with InterContinental Hotels Group down on fading bid rumours, dealers said.
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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.
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Leading shares closed lower with defensive stocks such as utilities the major fallers in London, and as Wall Street was sharply down on worries about writedowns and the trade deficit unexpectedly widening.
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The FTSE 100 closed lower, weighed down by a weak mining sector and disappointing trading news from Standard Chartered, although a positive morning by Wall Street helped British blue-chips finish above session lows, dealers said.