Shares close lower as Wall St. slides on Fed comments
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The FTSE 100 slumped after taking its cue from a bleak session on Wall Street and a slide in pharmaceutical stocks.
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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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NEW YORK, June 5 -- Wall Street skidded lower Tuesday after comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and a strong reading on the service sector suggested that the central bank has little reason to lower interest rates.
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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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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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U.S. stocks edged lower on Tuesday before the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, as weak earnings at electronics retailer Best Buy Co.  and a management reshuffle at Citigroup Inc.  disappointed investors.
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Blue chips closed lower off highs as Wall Street remained lower with interest rate sensitive sectors such as retailers bearing the brunt of the falls with a disappointing update from DSG International helping to weigh down the FTSE 100.
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Recession worries pushed U.S. stocks lower on Tuesday, but the decline was shallower than feared at first as an emergency interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve helped to ease investor fears and stabilize global markets.
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Stocks fell on Tuesday after signs of strength in the services sector and comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke all but eliminated expectations of an interest rate cut this year.
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Stocks headed for a lower open on Thursday due to uncertainty about when the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates and as mixed reports on the economy spurred caution.
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Wall Street fell after a weak manufacturing report raised investor concerns of a further economic slowdown.
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U.S. stocks tumbled on Tuesday, with  the Nasdaq closing at a one-month low, after the Federal  Reserve said in minutes from a December meeting that interest  rates remained too low to contain inflation.
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Wall Street stocks were set for a lower start on Tuesday, as investors returned from the Labor Day long weekend, and faced continued tight money market conditions and uncertainty over whether the Federal Reserve will cut rates this month.
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Stocks slipped on Wednesday following a negative assessment of the housing market from a large home builder and a Federal Reserve report indicated some U.S. regions were seeing slowing economic growth.
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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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U.S. stock index futures edged lower on Tuesday before a Federal Reserve meeting that investors hoped would yield clues about the outlook for interest rates.
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U.S. stocks opened lower on Friday after weaker-than-expected September employment data prompted worries about an economic slowdown, but upward revisions to August and earlier months dashed hopes that the Federal Reserve may soon cut interest rates.