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FTSE, n. Stock Market.
Brit. |ˈfʊtsi|, U.S. |ˈfʊtsi|
Forms: 19– FTSE, 19– FT-SE [See also Footsie n.]
[Acronym ‹ the initial letters of F inancial Times Stock Exchange.]
A proprietary name for: any of various indices of share prices based on the prices of a declared list of shares on the London Stock Exchange; spec. (in full100) an index based on the one hundred largest companies in terms of market capitalization. Freq. attrib., esp. in FTSE (100) index.
Other indices are based on other groups of companies, such as the largest 250 companies or all the companies listed.
1984Financial Times 14 Feb. 1/6 An index based on the minute-by-minute share price movements of 100 leading companies listed on the Stock Exchange was launched yesterday in London. The indicator is expected to be known as the FTSE index once details have been finalised between the Financial Times and the Stock Exchange. 1986Guardian 25 July 22/1 Worries over oil prices, sterling and interest rates held the week's rise in the FT Index to 19 points at 1125.11, while the FTSE put on 11.6 points to 1389.9. 1997Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 23/2 In London, traders marked leading stocks down and the FTSE 100 index hit a low of 4779.3, off 86.5, within minutes of the market's 8.30am opening. 1999R. C. Michie Hist. London Stock Exchange xii. 573 In any case LIFFE immediately announced plans to trade a financial futures contract based on the value of the FTSE100. 2001Times 5 Dec. 22/1 Cranswick, the gourmet sausage group, rallied 12½p to a high of 731p amid talk that it is set to secure a place in the FTSE small cap index—and therefore the FTSE all-share—in next week's annual review. |