Banks lead London shares lower
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London stock markets fell on Friday, with banks exerting downward pressure after further credit market-related shocks in the sector.
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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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London equities fell in opening trade on Monday, with shares in the London Stock Exchange sharply lower on confirmation of its plans to buy Borsa Italiana.
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UK leading shares closed weaker, albeit off day lows after a negative trading session.
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London equities fell on Thursday, on renewed worries about potential write-downs in the financial sector.
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Wall Street stocks were lower on Thursday, after a 32 per cent fall in profits at Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) compounded woes in the banking sector and weighed heavily on market sentiment.
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European stocks, which have performed strongly recently, have fallen back sharply in morning trading, with London banking shares undermined by concern about bad debts and French exporters hit by weakness of the dollar.
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The FTSE 100 fell into negative territory Friday after mortgage lender Northern Rock shed a quarter of its market value after relying on the Bank of England to solve its lack of liquidity.
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London equities fell back during the Tuesday morning session as broker downgrades weighed and investors reacted cautiously to new UK inflation data.
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Shares in Northern Rock dropped 40 percent to a 7-year low in London after customers reportedly withdrew at least Â£2 billion, or $4 billion.
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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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U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, led by financial shares, as a rush by savers to pull deposits from a large British mortgage lender fueled concerns that turmoil in the credit markets would spread.
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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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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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European shares slid on Wednesday, with London hit by a gloomy update from retail darling Marks & Spencer, and after heavy overnight US losses sparked by fresh housing strains.
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London equities fell on Friday after Northern Rock went to the Bank of England to arrange emergency financial support, a move that led to a two-year profit warning and undermined share prices in its peers.
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London equities fell in opening trade on Wednesday, after Northern Rock&#39;&#39;s latest guidance on full year profit growth dipped below analysts&#39; forecasts, adding to concern about a slowing housing market.