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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Alex Daniel

Rate cut hopes drive UK stocks higher after weak economic data

UK stocks rose on Friday amid growing hopes of interest rate cuts (Nicholas T Ansell/PA) - (PA Wire)

Investors’ hopes of future interest rate cuts were buoyed on Friday by weak UK economic data, pushing the FTSE 100 upwards.

London’s blue-chip index gained 112.81 points, or 1.38%, to end the day at 8,262.08.

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