Shares swing to loss ahead of long weekend
UK stocks see-sawed throughout Friday due to a dearth of company updates and following the news that Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would resign for health reasons. Markets are closed on Monday for a bank holiday.
The benchmark FTSE 100 index ended drifting off 36 points or 0.6% to finish at 5,963, back below the psychologically significant 6,000 level.
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