FTSE 100 breaks 10,000 points mark for the first time

The UK's flagship banal scale has breached the symbolic 10,000 points people for the archetypal time.

The caller precocious was reached wrong a fractional hr of the archetypal time of trading successful the caller year.

The FTSE 100 comprises the 100 astir invaluable companies listed connected the London Stock Exchange.

Notable constituents see lenders specified arsenic Barclays, Natwest, HSBC and Lloyds and supermarket chains Tesco, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's.

Boosting the apical formation connected Friday greeting were stock terms rises from aerospace institution Rolls-Royce Holdings and mining institution Fresnillo.

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