FTSE 100

The FTSE 100 is Britain's 'blue-chip' stock index.But its makeup means it is more of a global index than a snapshot of UK plc.

The FTSE 100, often referred to as the "Footsie", is a stockmarket index that measures the performance of the shares of the 100 largest companies by market value listed on the London Stock Exchange. The FTSE 100 is often called the "blue chip" index as the companies are meant to represent the biggest and best of their kind the former adjective is true, the latter not necessarily so.

By the standards of other developed world stockmarkets, the FTSE 100 is unusually skewed towards the resources sector: oil and gas groups and miners collectively make up just over a fifth of the index. This helps to explain why it has trailed the performance of many of its major counterparts in recent years.

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