FTSE dips as insurers fall
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Blue-chip shares have retreated from 28-month highs, with insurer Royal &amp; Sun Alliance leading the losers as investors baulk at the potential for further adverse claims from its US business and a rating downgrade.
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Leading British shares nosedived to session lows as Wall Street slipped amid ongoing concerns about the weak US currency.
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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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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.
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London equities fell in early trading on Wednesday, after Wall Street markets suffered their worst losses for three weeks on renewed concern about the health of the US housing market.
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London equities tracked heavy overnight falls in the US and Asia with the FTSE 100 opening sharply lower on Wednesday.
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London equities fell in opening trade on Tuesday, as British Energy tumbled after cutting its annual output targets and Vodafone lost ground on news of planned capital expenditure on its 3G network.
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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.
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Weak insurance and leisure companies dragged European shares lower on Monday as investors feared large damage payouts and a loss of holiday bookings after Asia's tsunami disaster which killed more than 22,000 people.
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European equity markets fell on Thursday, giving back some of the previous session&#39;s  gains, amid renewed concerns about the fallout from the credit crisis on the banking sector.
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Europe&#39;s main stock markets mainly extended losses on Monday following heavy falls last week, as dealers tracked news across the insurance and banking sectors.
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Leading shares ended lower as weakness in oil heavyweights and a mixed Wall Street offset merger and acquisition fuelled gains in miners and ICI disposal news.
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London equities fell on Thursday, on renewed worries about potential write-downs in the financial sector.
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NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Tuesday as health insurers&#39; shares slid on worries that the New York attorney general&#39;s probe will hit the entire industry.
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European stock markets fell in early trading after sharp overnight falls on Wall Street on record high oil prices and a US government probe into the insurance sector.
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Shares in the London Stock Exchange  eased on Monday after U.S. rival Nasdaq's 2.7 billion pound  ($5.3 billion) bid failed.
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Leading shares ended the day lower as interest rate worries and uncertainty in the high street after Alliance Boots rebuffed an 1,000 pence per share approach added to a cautious early session on Wall Street.