Wednesday, April 18, 2007

U.K. FTSE 100 Stocks Decline, Paced by BP, Shell; L&G, BAE Systems Fall

(Bloomberg) -- U.K. stocks declined, paced by BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Legal & General Group Plc and BAE Systems Plc fell as their shares traded without the right to the latest dividend.

The benchmark FTSE 100 Index slipped 18.10, or 0.3 percent, to 6479.70 at 8:13 a.m. The FTSE All-Share Index lost 0.2 percent to 3367.94. Ireland's ISEQ Index dropped 0.3 percent to 9674.64.


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