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Thursday, August 27, 2015

London stock market posts biggest rally since 2011

Latest: FTSE 100 jumps by 3.5%Analyst: This is why you don’t sellUS GDP beats forecastsWhat the experts saySummary: Chinese rally calms marketsAuthorities ‘bought shares’ ahead of WW2 paradeTom Phillips on the struggles of China’s poor 6.22pm BST Wall Street continues to rally, recovering more of this week’s losses after today’s growth figures helped shore up confidence.Stocks (not socks as I wrote earlier, drat it) are hitting their highest levels of the day, pushing the Dow Jones index up 377 points, or 2.3%. 6.15pm BST Greece’s first female prime minister, top supreme court judge Vassiliki Thanou, has just been sworn in.Official handover at PM's office #Greece #elections pic.twitter.com/FdI6BiXPKUHabemus Minister Primus. #Greece pic.twitter.com/0K4Ay69gla Related: First female prime minister for Greece announced Continue reading...


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