London shares close lower
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Blue chips closed lower Friday after a volatile last hour of trade, as rumours of financial troubles among hedge funds unnerved the market, causing a reversal of earlier solid gains, with Wall Street holding up but coming off highs.
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Leading shares closed weaker for the fifth day out of the last six, with the heavyweight mining sector badly hurt, but a relatively mild fall on Wall Street helped ensure that the FTSE 100 finished well off session lows.
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U.S. stocks ended lower on Thursday after a volatile trading session as investors continued to snap up safer assets like bonds, following Tuesday's global equities sell-off.
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NEW YORK - US stocks closed slightly lower yesterday with the Dow industrials hovering around this year&#39;s lows amid uncertainty over the deadlocked US presidential election and a flurry of disappointing earnings reports.
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Leading London shares gave up earlier gains to close lower, after US manufacturing data disappointed Wall Street, but Alliance & Leicester surged 16 percent, on takeover talk.
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London equities closed with small losses on Friday, after a lacklustre morning on Wall Street took the shine off the market.
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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.
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European shares closed lower on Thursday as oil and gas companies weighed down indexes already under pressure from transport stocks such as Air France-KLM.
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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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Shares closed just above their session lows, depressed by a negative morning by Wall Street and a weak retail sector following a disappointing trading update from Boots, dealers said.
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Leading shares closed lower on Thursday but recovered from their worst levels, in tandem with Wall Street, as an above-forecast US ISM index soothed early nerves in a jittery market, dealers said.
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UK blue chips closed lower as Wall Street remained weaker after disappointing inflation data with Alliance & Leicester down after reporting a fall in core operating profit, held back by large scale write-downs.
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Leading shares closed a touch lower Monday as Wall Street was also negative amid disappointing factory data and after severe declines in Chinese stocks, with property sector losses weighing on UK blue-chips.
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Leading shares closed weaker, albeit off lows, with Wall Street mixed as it recovered, after an initial drop on falling durable goods orders, with a Northern Rock profit warning initiating a UK banking sector slump.
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Stocks closed lower on Monday, pressured by a sell-off in energy shares after oil prices dropped and as investors were cautious before comments later this week from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
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Leading London shares closed lower as drugmaker AstraZeneca suffered a heavy blow following a negative EU ruling on one of its patents.
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US shares closed just a tad lower last night as the amrket held its breath ahead of the US election. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended 7.82 points adrift (0.