Laurence Mutkin, BMO’s EMEA head of rate strategy, is worried that the Bank of England is going to focus too much on slowing growth when it updates the market today. He told Bloomberg TV earlier what ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lifted 0.3%, with the S&P 500 index up 0.6% and the Nasdaq 1.3% higher at a closing level of more than 20,000. The UK’s FTSE 100 index is forecast to fall 30 points ...

Meanwhile, the pound strengthened against ... up 9.8p to 971.4p, and British Land, up 3.2p to 362.4p. The biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 were Diageo, down 99p to 2,448.5p, Persimmon, down 44.5p ...