| Previous close | 24,340.85 |
| Open | 24,381.13 |
| Volume | 0 |
| Day's range | 24,295.01 - 24,501.16 |
| 52-week range | 21,139.26 - 29,174.92 |
| Avg. volume | 1,874,595,146 |
- Yahoo Finance UK
What to watch: Investec cuts jobs, retail rebounds, pound gains
Fears of strict new lockdown rules hit UK stocks on Friday, fuelling a sell-off in travel, leisure, banking and housebuilding.
- Reuters
Equities sink on virus angst, Fed aftermath; gold, yen rise
Global equity markets slid on Friday as investors sought direction after this week's U.S. Federal Reserve meeting and a jump in coronavirus cases in Europe rattled sentiment, while gold rose and safe-haven buying lifted the Japanese yen. The dollar posted its fifth straight day of declines against the yen as Japan's monetary policy of yield curve control pushes up real interest rates. The big tech names that have fueled the U.S. rally from a pandemic-induced slump in March - Apple Inc <AAPL.O>, Microsoft Corp <MSFT.O>, Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> and Alphabet Inc <GOOGL.O> - led equities lower.
- Yahoo Finance UK
Stocks slide as Fed and Bank of England leave investors cold
US futures were sharply lower and major European indexes fell over 1% as investors reacted to the latest policy statement from the US Federal Reserve.
