London shares close lower, weighed down by miners, housebuilders
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UK blue chips closed at lower levels Monday, albeit off lows following a bounce on Wall Street, weighed down by miners on the back of falling copper prices, and housebuilders as investors remained uncertain about interest rates.
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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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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.
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The FTSE 100 closed at a five-month low on Friday despite talk of consolidation among the mega-cap miners.
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Leading shares closed weaker in dull trade, but finished off the morning low as Wall Street's early decline proved less than feared, dealers said.
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London shares closed lower, depressed by a weak morning by Wall Street as concerns over high oil prices and a weaker dollar continued to weigh on sentiment on both sides of the Atlantic, dealers said.
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London equities fell in early trading on Wednesday after news of lower copper output at Kazakhmys prompted losses in the mining sector.
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Continued weakness in the real estate sector dragged the FTSE lower on Monday.
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UK blue chips have closed weaker but off session lows, although Wall Street made dull progress today, with London investors focused on a mixed batch of major results and corporate news.
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London stocks ended lower on Wednesday as Bradford & Bingley kicked off the bank reporting season in worrying fashion.
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London shares closed sharply lower, albeit above the session low which was the biggest fall in over six years as US recession fears weighed on sentiment with UK investors unable to take any direction from Wall Street, closed for the Martin Luther King holiday.
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Leading shares ended the session lower as a slump in commodity prices hit heavyweight oil and mining stocks, with sentiment further knocked by a sombre start on Wall Street.
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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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London shares closed firmer off highs Friday as Wall Street was recovering from lows, with the mining sector the major gainers following news two companies had acquired a stake in Rio Tinto.
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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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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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Leading blue chips closed at session lows, with Wall Street sliding after housing starts suffered an unexpectedly steep decline in August.