Stock Market News (US Open) – FTSE helped by weakening sterling; major Wall Street benchmarks slightly down
Posted on October 6, 2017 at 2:43 pm GMTThe pan-European Stoxx 600 traded 0.3% lower not long before European traders head home for the weekend. Despite the decline, it remains up on the week and on track for its fourth consecutive weekly gain. Spain’s IBEX 35, which received additional attention this week due to ongoing tensions over Catalonia’s efforts to gain independence, was 0.4% down, having reversed a large part of losses recorded earlier in the day. The blue-chip benchmark suffered a poor week, with weekly losses standing [..]