Shares in the UK fell and the FTSE shed about 15 points to 4,804 this morning after new figures showed unemployment edged up in France last month.
The data reverses an improving trend, sparking fears economic recovery in the eurozone could come more slowly than hoped for next year. The property sector is off after recent data in the UK on falling house prices. Land Securities is down 16p to 1,394p. British Land is off by 10p to 895.5p. Intercontinental, the hotels operator, is down another 7p to 647p as investors continue to feel the fallout from its operations hit in Thailand and elsewhere by this week’s catastrophic tidal wave. Dixons is up 1.25p to 151.75p ahead of the start of reports on New Year’s sales by a number...
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