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FTSE 100 falls as inflation rises to three-month high
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Posted on February 17, 2021
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Published by linker 5
Posted on February 17, 2021
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(Reuters) – London’s FTSE 100 fell on Wednesday as inflation picked up by a little more than expected in January, while British American Tobacco slumped despite stronger annual profit.
The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 was down 0.5% by 0819 GMT, with British American Tobacco the biggest drag.
British inflation rose a little more than expected last month as the country went back into a coronavirus lockdown, pushed up by higher food prices and less discounting of household goods such as sofas, official data showed
The mid-cap FTSE 250 index fell 0.3%.
British fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown slid 7.6% to the bottom of the blue-chip index after Peter Hargreaves, the largest shareholder and co-founder, sold $416 million worth of shares.
(Reporting by Shivani Kumaresan in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
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