UK’s top stock market index celebrates 40th anniversary
The FTSE 100 is celebrating its 40th anniversary, as firms from Barclays to Sainsbury’s remain a fixture of the UK’s top stock market index.
Dubbed the Footsie, the index containing the biggest 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) launched on January 3 1984.
It was widely considered a measure of the UK’s stock market and a gauge of the health of the wider economy.
The headline index has made almost no progress since
