The London Stock Exchange falls 0.99% amid fears of new restrictions
©Reuters. The London Stock Exchange falls 0.99% amid fears of new restrictions
London, Dec 20 (.).- The London Stock Exchange closed the session this Monday with a drop of 0.99%, amid fears of new restrictions against the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
The FTSE-100, the main index in the British capital, fell 71.89 points, to 7,198.03 points, while the secondary FTSE-250 lost 1.01%, 230.50 points, to 22,549.88 points.
At the close of the stock market, the pound sterling lost 0.52% against the euro, to 1.1704 euros, and fell 0.06% against the US dollar, to 1.3220 dollars.
The United Kingdom registered more than 91,000 new coronavirus infections this Monday, close to the record since the start of the pandemic that marked last week (93,045 cases).
On the London floor, the mining company Antofagasta (LON:ANTO) led the losses with a fall of 5.51%, while the publisher Informa gave up 5.30%, the computer security firm Darktrace 4.62%, and the insurerPrudential(LON:PRU) 4.55%.
On the other hand, the business services group Rentokil Initial rose 6.50%, the postal company Royal Mail(LON:RMG), 1.47%, the software companySage Group(LON:SGE), 1, 20%, the supermarket chain Tesco (LON: TSCO), 1.13% and the energy company SSE 0.84%.
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