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...Wall Street’s S&P 500 was down 0.1 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.2 per cent....
...France’s Cac 40 added 0.7 per cent, Germany’s Dax rose 1 per cent. Across the Atlantic, Wall Street’s S&P 500 was up 0.2 per cent and the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1 per cent....
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...The FTSE 100 had already climbed to a record closing high on Monday....
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...Sterling fell 0.4 per cent to trade at $1.232, its weakest since November....
...France’s Cac 40 added 0.1 per cent....
...London’s FTSE 100 closed in on its record high on Friday as investors grew more confident that the central bank would make multiple interest rate cuts this year....
...European stocks slipped from a record closing high, while London’s FTSE 100 closed out its biggest weekly gain since September....
...In the US, futures tracking the S&P 500 were up 0.3 per cent ahead of Wall Street’s opening bell, while those tracking the Nasdaq 100 were 0.2 per cent higher....
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...Shares in those seven unglamorous companies are up by an average of around 1,000 per cent over the past 20 years....
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