London stock market slashes over rate cut

February 8th, 2008 | by admin |

The London stock market slashed by midday on Thursday after the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy committee cut interest rates to 5.25 from 5.5 percent.

The benchmark FTSE 100 index, which was down 44.8 points at the opening, shed 1 …

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