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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Jeremy Cutler

Shrinking economy takes toll on FTSE 100 amid ‘unsurprising surprise’

Money is stacked in front of the London Stock Exchange website (Danny Lawson/PA) - (PA Archive)

The FTSE 100’s early promise faded on Friday amid downbeat economic growth figures and fresh US tech weakness.

The FTSE 100 index closed down 54.1 points, 0.6%, at 9,649.03.

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