London shares close lower
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London shares closed lower as M&amp;A hopes surrounding AWG and John Laing were offset by a weaker Wall Street which saw investors unsettled after a surprise rise in import prices.
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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 ended a volatile session lower, giving up earlier gains, as a slump in global commodity prices wreaked havoc amongst heavyweight oil and mining stocks.
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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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Share prices on the London Stock Exchange were lower at midday Thursday.
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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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Leading British shares nosedived to session lows as Wall Street slipped amid ongoing concerns about the weak US currency.
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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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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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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 weaker with Wall Street remaining lower on interest rate jitters and Enterprise Inns down in the blue chips ahead of the July 1 smoking ban.
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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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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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Business & money: Index of leading UK shares falls to lowest level since credit crunch began last August
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US stocks closed lower last night as investors grappled with a number of conflicting economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended its session down 47.88 points, at 10,428.02.
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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 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.