Closing post
And finally…. the UK stock market has ended the week at a new closing high.
The FTSE 100 share index has closed up 64 points, or 0.6%, at 10,910 points, having earlier hit a fresh record high of 10,934 points.
It’s the Footsie’s first foray over 10,900 points.
Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell, says:
“Two months in, it looks like 2026 could be a second bumper year in a row for investors putting their faith in UK stocks if current performance trends continue.”
That’s all for another week – here’s today’s stories so far:
Amazon disruption leaves customers unable to shop
Amazon shoppers are reporting issues completing purchases on its website and app.
Reports of disruption at the retailer started at around 11am this morning on the website Downdetector, which monitors internet outages. By 4pm, more than 1,900 customers had logged an issue with the online retailer.
Shoppers complained of receiving an error message when they attempted to check out. It read:
“We’re very sorry, but we’re having trouble doing what you just asked us to do. Please give us another chance – click the Back button on your browser and try your request again.”
Amazon customers have taken to social media to share their frustrations, with one X user writing: “i haven’t been able to buy anything from Amazon today.”
In the thread on Downdetector a number of affected customers shared their experiences of trying to make a purchase.
“App order history does now show and checkout fails,” posted Paul Walker. In the same thread John Reid added: “All past orders except 1 have disappeared, no idea if a delivery due today will materialise.”
Another poster, Neil, who had been in touch with Amazon customer service via live chat, said he was told that the company was having “issues globally”. Like other affected shoppers, his experience was that “our orders are not showing & we can’t buy anything we keep getting errors”.
Amazon have been asked for comment….
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