| Market Closed - Great Britain 11:35:29 2024-04-25 am EDT | After market 03:19:26 pm | |||
| 8,079 PTS | +0.48% |
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8,092 | +0.17% |
| 07:50am | Stocks called down ahead of US GDP data | AN |
| 07:38am | Alliance News UK - start of day | AN |
LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in UK housebuilders jumped on Friday after a report that the leading contender to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing an emergency budget for a no-deal Brexit, which includes overhaul of stamp duty and aggressive tax cuts.
Taylor Wimpey, Berkeley, Persimmon and Barratt Developments were all up between 2.1% to 3.3% and were the top performers on the UK blue-chip index FTSE 100.
Boris Johnson's team wants a series of measures to ensure that the economy is "going gangbusters" by Oct. 31, according to The Times.
(Reporting by Thyagaraju Adinarayan; editing by Josephine Mason)
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| 4,652 GBX | +0.13% | +0.69% | 6.11B | ||
| 2,496 GBX | +0.32% | +0.81% | 3.67B | ||
| 1,638 PTS | +0.58% | +3.13% | - | ||
| 1,282 GBX | -0.74% | -0.70% | 5.13B | ||
| 1,206 USD | +1.01% | +3.35% | - | ||
| 1,139 GBX | -0.44% | +1.06% | 4.85B | ||
| 448.8 GBX | -0.09% | +0.56% | 5.41B | ||
| 185 GBX | +0.43% | -1.80% | 587M | ||
| 131.4 GBX | +0.04% | -0.34% | 5.78B | ||
| 0.8574 GBX | -0.16% | +0.08% | - | ||
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The sharpest declines in . |
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