London stocks slide as quarantine rules hit easyJet, British Airways | Malay Mail

Friday, 14 Aug 2020 04:18 PM MYT

The blue-chip FTSE 100 fell 1.5 per cent and the mid-cap FTSE 250 lost 1.2 per cent, with travel-related stocks leading declines as France warned that it would reciprocate. Rising infections, stalling macroeconomic activity and worries over Sino-US relations have held back global equity benchmarks from fully recovering their coronavirus-driven losses, with the MSCI world index hovering at about two per cent below its record high set just before the onset of the health crisis.

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