(Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Well I hope you have noted my Mr Micawber, gallows optimism about the FTSE over my previous pieces. The FTSE and the UK are in a terrible mess but the ...

The UK's benchmark stock index has reached an all-time high. The FTSE 100 index of most valuable companies on the London Stock Exchange closed at 8,505.69, breaking the record set last May.

FTSE 100 down 0.4%, FTSE 250 off 0.2% Diageo slides after U.S. Surgeon General's warning Energy shares shine on steady oil prices Jan 3 (Reuters) - London's FTSE 100 index logged its sharpest drop ...