London stocks lose steam after Fed's rate cut outlook; Halma jumps
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FTSE 100 down 0.6%, FTSE 250 off 1.5%
Halma jumps after full-year revenue, core profit beat
Crest Nicholson warns of drop in annual profit; shares slide
Updated at 1553 GMT
By Pranav Kashyap and Purvi Agarwal
June 13 (Reuters) -British stocks closed lower on Thursday, tracking European market losses as investors digested the Federal Reserve's projection forfewer US rate cuts this year, while health and safety equipment maker Halma soared after its results beat estimates.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 .FTSE closed 0.6% lower, a day after itsbest day in over a month. The mid-cap FTSE 250 .FMTC dipped 1.5%, in its worst day in nearly two months.
Home construction and household goods .FTNMX402020 slipped 2.8% asCrest Nicholson CRST.L slumped 11.6% to the bottom of the FTE 250 after the homebuilder warned its annual profit would fall about one-third and postedan 88% slump in half-year earnings.
Utilities .FTUB6510 and personal care stocks .FTNMX452010 were the only outliers with gains of0.3% and 0.5%, respectively.
The pan-European STOXX600 .STOXX was down 1.3%, its worst day since mid-April.
"Mood across the European markets is heavy today due to political uncertainty and strongly softer-than-expected EZ industrial production data," said Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote Bank.
Meanwhile, the Fed kept rates unchanged on Wednesday, plotting one cut in the year, and pushing out the start to perhaps as late as December.
"The Bank of England is likely to cut earlier and a bit more aggressively than the U.S. because the UK economy has bottomed out," said Thomas Gehlen, senior market strategist at SG Kleinwort Hambros.
A report also showed U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in May, in another signof subsiding inflation.
Investors will now shift focus to the crucial domestic inflation report ahead of the Bank of England's next monetary policy meeting, both due in the next week.
Among other individual stocks, Halma HLMA.L jumped 13.4% to the top of the FTSE100 after the technology firm beat estimates for full-year revenue and core profit.
Reporting by Pranav Kashyap and Purvi Agarwal in Bengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema and Eileen Soreng; Editing by Richard Chang
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