Another uninspired day's trading for the FTSE 100 saw declines for the media and telecom sector...
Another uninspired day's trading for the FTSE 100 saw declines for the media and telecom sectors as well as further falls for recent bashing boys Railtrack and Hays. At midday the FTSE 100 was down 36.6 points to 5823.9. US markets wobbled again yesterday and failed to instil any confidence in UK investors. Leading the FTSE 100 fallers was Telewest, down 5.75p to 110.25p. Its been a miserable day for telecoms so far with falls for Colt Telecom down 3.3% and index heavyweight Vodafone down 3.75p to 171.25p. Recent weakness from the US's Nasdaq hasn't helped any. But BT mana...
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