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Britain's top stock index falls 0.5% despite a jump in tech shares

Britain's top stock index falls 0.5% despite a jump in tech shares

Share prices for beverage, chemical, and real estate companies dragged the wider London market down on Thursday. The blue-chip FTSE 100 dropped to about 10,821 points, even though UK technology firms climbed 1% following strong artificial intelligence forecasts from the American chipmaker Nvidia. In other financial news, traders now expect the Bank of England to wait until February 2027 before raising interest rates.

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